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Opinion: I spent a year at the border wall. Here’s what I wish JD Vance learned.

There is no “border crisis” — or at least not the kind they want you to imagine This month, Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance said to reporters he wants to stop the “insanity” at the ...
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To aid Afghan women, the world must define and address gender apartheid

Three years ago, the U.S. and its allies evacuated thousands of Afghans who had worked with them during the war against the Taliban. But the women and girls who remain in Afghanistan now live under a ...
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Honoring the life of Eduardo “Eddie” Canales

Dear Friends, It is with a heavy heart that we inform you of the passing of our colleague, friend, and board member,  Eduardo “Eddie” Canales who passed away peacefully in his sleep this morning. Eduardo Canales ...
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California heat has immigration activists bracing for a humanitarian crisis

SAN YSIDRO MOUNTAINS, Calif. — It’s dawn at the foot of Otay Mountain, and the heat is already nauseating. Even this early in the morning, temperatures near this 3,500-foot peak reach triple digits, with this part ...
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NNIRR July Newsletter

Read our latest newsletter with information about the Borderlands and our response to the Presidential Debate. Click on the following link: https://nnirr.salsalabs.org/nnirrnews-newsletter_july_2024
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Lawmakers’ New Plan to Bring Back Deported Migrants Separated From Families

Lawmakers are fighting to bring back migrants and their children who have been unfairly deported, with a new resolution which would see them return to the U.S. Newsweek can reveal that congressmen plan to introduce a ...
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Border town firefighters scramble to save migrants from extreme summer heat

SUNLAND PARK, N.M. — It’s a relatively quiet — and hot — afternoon at Sunland Park’s Fire Department Station 1. Some firefighters working the shift are prepping for dinner. Others are doing office work. Suddenly, a ...
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Misuse of Texas Troopers Has Broader Implications for the US

While the pro-Palestinian student protests and accounts of police crackdowns at universities across the United States in April have fallen out of the newscycle, students at the University of Texas at Austin continue to face criminal charges and other punishment after Texas Governor Greg Abbott deployed the same police ...
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We need safe pathways for asylum seekers and migrants, not border closures

The Biden Administration has largely closed the U.S.-Mexico border to most asylum seekers – an Executive Order that became effective today. The order recalls the Trump Administration’s actions to “close the border,” and is a transparent ...
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We Can’t Trade a Path to Legalization in Exchange for More Border Militarization

Silky Shah, executive director of the Detention Watch Network, a 27-year-old, national coalition working to abolish the incarceration of immigrants in the United States, says that the domestic “immigration enforcement system and the prison-industrial complex are not ...
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200 NGOs Oppose Biden’s Historic Expansion Of ICE Detention System: “Detention Should Not Be About Politics.”

In a letter to President Biden delivered Thursday, 200 organizations, including NNIRR, voiced “outrage over your administration’s expansion of the cruel and unnecessary immigration detention system.” The Hill has run a story on the letter here. An excerpt from ...
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Texas county at center of border fight is overwhelmed by migrant deaths

EAGLE PASS, Tex. — The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had ...
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