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San Diego State University’s Honor 113 section on Borders, Migration and Detention in the Americas, taught by Professor Kate Swanson, has spent the spring 2021 semester studying conditions at the U.S./Mexico border.  As a function of this course students read and respond to letters from migrants currently in detention, primarily in Louisiana and Texas. These letters are exchanged in collaboration with Haitian Bridge Alliance and the Coalition in Defense of Black Immigrants. Pictured below is one of those letters. Addressed to President Joe Biden, it was sent by Cameroonian asylum seekers t...

More migrants attempt to cross US-Mexico border Local photojournalist captures migrants crossing US-Mexico border. and last updated 2021-04-26 20:30:27-04 SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — A growing number of people are risking their lives to attempt to enter the United States illegally. According to US Customs and Border Protection, more adult migrants were arrested by CBP agents in March, but fewer unaccompanied minors and family members were taken into custody. Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Don Bartletti is back at his Vista home after a two-day trip to San Luis, Arizona, where he witnessed...

Today on the Show:  An in-depth interview with California Assemblymember Rob Bonta, nominated to be the first Filipino Attorney General of California.  Also, we’ll rebroadcast our interview with Enricque Monones, founder of the Border Angels and former big league baseball executive: We talk to him about politics in sports and his extensive work on asylum for central Americans Playlist

Highlights from the 2021 Latinx Children's Literature Conference By Gnesis Villar | Mar 11, 2021 On March 6, the Center for Children’s Literature at Bank Street College of Education in New York City hosted a virtual mini-conference on Latinx children’s literature. The conference’s third edition focused on Mexican American themes and featured David Bowles as the keynote speaker, who is the recipient of the Bank Street Children’s Book Committee’s 2019 Claudia Lewis Award for Poetry for They Call Me Güero and two Pura Belpré Honors. ‘Whole Neighborhoods Insi...

is director of capacity building in the Border Angels organization and lives in San Diego. Year after year, border communities and the U.S.-Mexico border have been politicized as the conversations around immigration and the rights of migrants have become partisan debates. During the previous administration, immigration policies worked not only to limit asylum processing at the border but also to further polarize the issue. The Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) was one of the programs implemented by the Department of Homeland Security that forced more than 70,000 migrants, including women an...