Agents are effectively given license to act as judge, jury, and executioner, particularly when firing their weapons into Mexico

Jimmy Patiño’s Raza Si, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego, reveals connections between the early Chicano movement and immigrant rights today

What can the assassination of Sister Maura during El Salvador’s civil war teach us about humanity for Central American refugees today?

Making visible what is hidden is central to the struggle to put an end to the extrajudicial killings and the associated impunity in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Yemen, and beyond

On April 2, the Associated Press announced that it would no longer sanction the term “illegal immigrant” or use “illegal” to describe…

Two recent court cases in southern California provide insight into the identity of those who smuggle drugs across the international boundary between…

The tragic running aground of the Costa Concordia in mid-January, and dramatic images of the massive luxury cruise ship keeled over off the coast of Tuscany,…

A major report released recently (http://www.cultureofcruelty.org/) paints a frightening picture of what happens to the individuals who have the misfortune to fall…

Palestinian Walks: Forays Into a Vanishing Landscape, by Raja Shehadeh (Scribner, 2008), paperback, 224 pp., $15 Crossing With the Virgin: Stories From…

In September 2010 the House Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) Caucus held a technology fair. In the foyer of the Rayburn House Office…