By Adam Liptak In June of 2010, four boys were playing in the dry bed of the Rio Grande that separates El Paso from Juárez, Mexico. The international borderline, unmarked, runs through the middle of the culvert. Continue reading

Congresswoman Wilson (FL) has taken the lead to circulate a dear colleague letter (below) to express strong opposition to the sudden policy shift from DHS towards Haitian earthquake survivors. Continue reading

By Madalyn Mendoza Handmade rosaries, letters to loved ones and jewelry attached to the skeletal remains of immigrants who attempted to cross into the U.S. on foot are sometimes the only clues forensic anthropologists in Tuscon have in identifying bodies found by border agents and ranchers to return them to families. Continue reading

By Joshua Breisblatt For over two years, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has examined body-worn cameras to see if this technology which is quickly becoming standard police practice, should be used by its agents and officers. In their most recent step forward in implementing body-worn cameras for its agents and officers, CBP announced last week they will be requesting quotes to purchase 108 body-worn cameras and 12 vehicle-mounted cameras by the end of September. Continue reading

By Jorge Rodríguez The House Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee will hold a hearing tomorrow, September 13, to discuss Border Patrol’s power grab in the government’s 100-mile border zone. For me, this hearing isn’t about efficiency. This is about my right — and the rights of roughly 200 million Americans — to travel freely and be respected in my community. Continue reading

WASHINGTON –67 national and local criminal justice, civil rights, human rights, faith-based, immigrants’ rights, LGBTQ, and open government organizations urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to strengthen its proposed rule outlining the process for police departments to collect and report data about people who die while in police custody. Continue reading

One man was hospitalized after a shooting at the Pembina, N.D., border crossing early Saturday morning. A spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the incident took place on the U.S. side of the border around 2 a.m. Border agents were alerted to a vehicle with a "suspicious" occupant travelling south from the border. Two agents attempted to stop the suspect but the driver allegedly rammed his vehicle into a border patrol vehicle. Continue reading

By Matt Zapotosky The Justice Department plans to end its use of private prisons after officials concluded the facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than those run by the government. Continue reading

Mayor Oscar Leeser Mayor of El Paso, Texas   Mayor Javier Gonzalez Mocken Mayor of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico President Obama, help unify our community through designating Castner Range as a national monument. If you ask El Pasoans and Juarenses how they view the U.S.-Mexico border between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, they will say the same thing: the separation between the two cities is more or less a fiction. And as the mayors that represent these two cities, we agree. Continue reading

BY PIA ORRENIUS “You got what you wanted! But you lost what you had!” Friends on the Other Side, “The Princess and the Frog” Continue reading