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Friendship Park turned 50 years old, but the park where people on opposite sides of the U.S.-Mexico border fence can meet in person will have to celebrate its...

Why: "When Biden was running for office, there was a concern within the immigrant-rights movement, to see how much he would distance himself from the Obama-administration legacy of mass deportation," Rojas Rodriguez told Insider. "We had nice rhetoric and terrible practices, and with Biden so far, when the rubber meets the road what we are seeing is disappointment and disappointment." On the campaign trail, Rojas Rodriguez challenged Biden during a question-and-answer period asking whether he w...

Drones were sent out more than once to situations described as “fake COVID testing.”

is director, U.S.-Mexico Border Program, American Friends Service Committee. He lives in Chula Vista. Last month, I spoke with a mother of two teenage boys at the Chaparral migrant encampment in Tijuana, who I’ll call Julia. Julia left her hometown in Mexico because a gang threatened her boys and disabled her husband when he defended them. When she and her family arrived in Tijuana, she discovered that people connected to the gang in her hometown were in Tijuana, and she was strongly consider...

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) confirmed reports that dozens of unaccompanied minors who illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and were transported to a shelter at the San Diego Convention Center have tested positive for the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19). HHS officials said those who tested positive were brought to San Diego on a separate plane and their intake was separate from the others. They were also kept in separate areas on a separate floor. Those who tested negative are...

Help Save Peoples World The economic crisis has hit Peoples World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Salt of the Earth Labor College spotlights border militarization and death March 12, 2021 9:25 AM CDT By Sarah Roberts And Joe Bernick A Border Patrol agent polices the U.S. side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along Mexico east of Nogales, Ariz. A project that maps the bodi...

Print The migrant girl was around 6 years old, dehydrated, fluish and despondent. Her head looked too big for her body — a sign of malnutrition — and she had lice in her hair. The girl had spent two weeks outdoors held at the sunbaked Border Patrol detention center in El Paso with her asylum-seeking family before being brought to a migrant shelter in San Diego. That’s where Jenn Budd found her in the summer of 2018, and she needed serious medical intervention. For the record: 11:43 AM, F...

Communities injured by historic wrongs are calling for redress and restorative justice.

Print We are publishing essays all week from San Diegans about last week’s rioting by a mob incited by President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. We must decide how to handle uncertainty Byron Harlan is a financial planner who lives in Little Italy. There’s something about the human mind that craves order. Patterns make people happy. Deviations can make them less so. Chaos breeds anxiety. Order makes people calm. That concept is a basic aspect of behavioral finance, but can apply to other ...