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Alex Padilla handcuffed at Noe...

Jun 12, 2025 by GlobalPossibilities

“If this is how this administration responds to a senator with a question … you can only imagine what they’re doing to farmworkers, to cooks, to day laborers,” Padilla said.

A Native Nation’s Impossible F...

Oct 9, 2020 by GlobalPossibilities

A Native Nation’s Impossible Fight to Stop Trump’s Wall From Dividing Its Land

‘Happy New Year, you’re fired’...

Jan 1, 2020 by Casey Coates Danson

Railing against illegal immigration and promising to build a U.S./Mexico border wall are two of the ways in which President Donald Trump fires up his base at MAGA rallies, yet media outlets ranging from the Washington Post to the Spanish-language Univision network have reported that the Trump Organization has continued to use undocumented workers in 2019 —

“Humanitarian Aid Is Never a C...

Aug 20, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Volunteers with the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths have been venturing into the harsh Sonoran Desert for years to leave life-saving supplies for migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Arguments made in the Ninth Ci...

Jun 26, 2019 by Casey Coates Danson

I am no lawyer and do not possess the background for why AG Barr is arguing the points in this case but no reasonable person could or would deny children access to beds, blankets, soap and toothbrushes while in detention.

They Are Concentration Camps —...

Jun 20, 2019 by Casey Coates Danson

The words “Holocaust” and “concentration camp” were trending on Twitter on Tuesday. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had referred to the prison camps that migrant children are being kept in as “concentration camps,” and a virtual war erupted.

Bold Plan? Replace the Border ...

May 3, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Building solar, wind, natural gas and water infrastructure all along the U.S.–Mexico border would create economic opportunity rather than antagonism

Long shot lawyer: Defending mi...

Apr 29, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

Few lawyers choose to represent migrants at Stewart Detention Center, which rejects more than 90% of applicants. Marty Rosenbluth has made defending those who may have a right to stay his lifework.

Bills giving Arkansas DACA rec...

Apr 11, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

In a major victory for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients in Arkansas, two bills that would allow them to access nursing licenses and in-state tuition rates at public universities were signed into law by the state’s Republican governor this week.

Trump’s Most Worrisome Legacy...

Apr 10, 2019 by Casey Coates Danson

As corporate giants capture the institutions that are supposed to protect ordinary citizens, a dystopia once imagined only by science fiction writers is emerging before our eyes

‘Clear Breach of His Oat...

Apr 9, 2019 by Casey Coates Danson

“The president can’t ignore our laws to accomplish his goal of preventing people from seeking asylum here.”

City in Arizona approves resol...

Feb 7, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

The resolution called the razor wire “not only irresponsible, but inhumane” and argues that this type of wall “is only found in a war, prison or battle setting.”

Democratic legislator invites ...

Feb 1, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

The young immigrant who recently made history as the first Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient to win the prestigious Rhodes scholarship will be Rep. Grace Meng’s guest to Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech next week.

I’m a Dreamer and a Rhodes Sch...

Jan 11, 2019 by GlobalPossibilities

A person shouldn’t have to be a “genius” or “economically productive” to have access to equal opportunity.

Yale School of Architecture’s ...

Dec 13, 2018 by Casey Coates Danson

The Tatiana Bilbao–organized show uses student work, Iwan Baan photography, and maps to present multitudinous—though sometimes blurry—visions for the contentious region.