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Why We Need a Handbook for Practicing Asylum
Jun 07 2024
Practicing Asylum brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin America has grown in the last decade, scholars and attorneys have collaborat
The Chilling Truth Behind Silicon Valley’s Surveillance of Immigrants
Jun 05 2024
By Melissa Villa-Nicholas, author of Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry around ImmigrantsAround 2018, I started to read reports about increasing information technology surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border and around the U.S. to assist in immigration detention and deportat
Critical Wage Theory — A Timely New Approach to an Old Problem
Jun 04 2024
By Ruben J. Garcia, author of Critical Wage Theory: Why Wage Justice Is Racial JusticeRaising the federal minimum wage is not a front burner issue in the U.S. presidential election campaign. Other important issues such as the war in Gaza, the trials of former President Donald Trump, or the futur
Border Activist and Critic Michael Dear’s Top 15 Border Films
Feb 08 2023
By Michael Dear, author of Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through FilmOver the past two decades, there has been an explosion of film releases about the US-Mexico borderlands. Not surprisingly, many have addressed issues of drug trafficking and cartels as well as immigr