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Advertisement: “You can’t even describe what we are doing as a Band-Aid on a gushing wound,” Jakubal said. He said a long history of U.S. policies in Latin America has contributed to the reasons migrants are risking their lives to trek for days through harsh terrain in hopes of finding better lives in the U.S. In other words, Jakubal said, “what’s going on at the border now is like a symptom on top of a symptom on top of a symptom of the deeper problem.” A shift in policy Doug Ruopp, a veteran volunteer with the migrant ...

134 3 minutes read Featured image: A photo of the wreckage from May 2. Credit: City of San Diego Fire-Rescue Twitter (@SDFD) At least four people have died and over two dozen more hospitalized after a 40-foot vessel carrying approximately 30 migrants capsized off the coast of San Diego May 2. The boat broke apart after hitting rocks near Point Loma, which is a peninsula dividing San Diego Bay and the Pacific Ocean.  A “search and rescue” operation followed, with several survivors being arrested by U.S. immigration forces. The search for additional passengers continued into the night. ...

“The Democrats’ relationship with immigration is not so great either,” points out artist Pablo Helguera. March 4, 2021 Artist Rashwan Abdelbaki greets a guest at the Queens Museum, December 2018, with a work of his on the wall in the background. Photo Michael Wilson, courtesy Artistic Freedom Initiative. Many culture workers in the U.S., typically avid believers in international cultural exchange, are heaving a sigh of relief at the election of Joe Biden, a far more liberal-minded president than his Republican predecessor. No more travel bans! A reunion with global organizations! An end...

Jenn Budd, Border Patrol agent turned migrant activist, has deep Alabama roots Updated Feb 19, 2021; Posted Feb 19, 2021 Deported U.S. Vietnam veteran Ruben Robles, 70, left, shows the wrist band he made for migrant rights activist Jenn Budd who works with deported U.S. veterans at Friendship Park in Tijuana on June 16, 2019. Budd, a former senior border patrol officer with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, now works with veterans who have been deported to Mexico and are now living in Tijuana. She also helps immigrants, asylum seekers and deportees in San Diego and Tijuana. Budd appre...

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, Feb. 14, 2021An earlier version of this story incorrectly said the migrant girl at the shelter had Ly...