A stream of projects by Netflix and international studios has Mexico standing out in today’s film industry
Legal and court fees, plus potential bails exceed the economic capacity of migrant families, who depend on their community’s solidarity with "contributions" or "collections" to try to bring their loved ones back home.
Read MoreTapachula, five miles from Mexico’s border with Guatemala, has become a principal destination for the world’s deportees. And in a cruel twist, even Mexicans expelled from the U.S. have found themselves there, regrouping after being deported – not home to Mexico – but first to Central America.
"Our students need to know that we're here to fight for them," says Los Angeles Assistant Principal Lorena Reynoso.
Read MoreAs Trump and the Supreme Court dismantle the system that protected millions of immigrant families who fled danger, children wonder: Will we be next?
Read MoreWhen a parent is taken away by ICE, a child’s world implodes. The long-term consequences include depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Read MoreBlending childhood memories, her own family’s story, and a century-long journey through the border, TheNew York Times journalist reveals the roots of today’s border crisis on her book “El Paso: Five Families and One Hundred Years of Blood, Migration, Race, and Memory”
Read MoreThere are companies operating under a business model in which your data is the product, one that rakes in tens of millions of dollars annually.
Read MoreA New Jersey restaurant owner’s detention by ICE shut down his family’s business and upended their lives, thus ending their American dream
Read MoreEmployers collect all kinds of personal and private information about them, and there are concerns about how and for what purposes that data is used.
Read MoreHow effective are Portland’s sanctuary city policies when ICE can track and surveil immigrant communities with ease?
Read MoreA planned 1.3-mile wall across Mount Cristo Rey has drawn opposition from environmentalists and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces.
Read MoreHow effective are Portland’s sanctuary city policies when ICE can track and surveil immigrant communities with ease?
Read MoreThe Trump administration deported fewer Mexicans in 2025 than in recent years. But new data shows cartel violence — not just economic hardship — is now driving migrants from regions wracked by criminal gang warfare.
Read MoreA group of people committed to nature are working to protect San Rafael Valley, where they say the continuing border wall construction threatens endangered species in an important wildlife migration corridor.
Read MoreUnder a renewed push for deportations, longstanding residents of Candelaria, Texas, are being seized from their homes in the dead of night, tearing families apart and silencing a community.
Read MoreA Latino independent journalist and former CNN correspondent reflects on his experience meeting face-to-face the anti-immigrant rhetoric from Los Angeles to Minneapolis.
Read MoreNative communities celebrated the reburial of their ancestors in West Texas, but the land might be under the radar of tech companies
Read MoreA year ago, 40 men were killed in a detention center fire in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. An examination by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune shows that it was the foreseen and foreseeable result of landmark shifts in U.S. border policies.
Read MoreAfter unprecedented protests swept Cuba in 2021, a wave of people left the island to cross the United States’ southern border. One was journalist Jesús Jank Curbelo, who tells his story of being smuggled through Central America and Mexico.
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