Bellarmine professor goes face-to-face with the stark realities of the US/Mexican border

July 19th, 2019 – Frank Hutchins, Special to Courier Journal As we slept comfortably on the nights of June 23 and 24, the desert around us came alive with desperate, hopeful, and — ultimately in many cases — dispirited bodies. We know this because, on the afternoon of June 26 in the U.S. District Court

1,600 Miles, 85 Hours A Migrant Family Takes a Greyhound Across America

By Miriam Jordan Photographs by Todd Heisler The New York Times May 26, 2019 DALLAS — By the time it pulled into Dallas, the bus from Arizona was two hours and 47 minutes late. It had left Phoenix overbooked, turned away passengers with tickets in Tucson, rolled through El Paso at 2 a.m. and finally

Reporting on the Retirees Making Migrants’ Journeys a Little Easier

By Miriam Jordan The New York Times May 29, 2019 Times Insider explains who we are and what we do, and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. They descended silently from the unmarked immigration van that had pulled up outside the iconic Benedictine monastery in Tucson, which has been converted temporarily into

Military presence, lane blockades at ports of entry cause concern in Nogales

Heightened security ‘Couldn’t have come at a worse time’ By Curt Prendergast Arizona Daily Star Nov 16, 2018 “We want to make sure the people come through in a peaceful manner, and we will gladly process them” at a port of entry, said Teresa Small, a spokeswoman for Customs and Border Protection. Shipping containers now

Migrant caravan and military concertina wire

At the border, uncertainty about the migrant caravan and military concertina wire By Dan Lamothe and Maya Averbuch November 14 The Trump administration has dispatched more than 5,900 active-duty troops to the border to buttress U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents processing asylum claims. Federal law and Pentagon policy limit the scope of what the

Zero-tolerance policy is cruel, immoral.

Separating children from their parents at the border ‘breaks my heart’ By Laura Bush June 17 at 8:45 PM Laura Bush is a former first lady of the United States. On Sunday, a day we as a nation set aside to honor fathers and the bonds of family, I was among the millions of Americans

HUMANE BORDERS SAYS VANDALISM OF WATER STATIONS IS DEADLY

For Immediate Release January 18, 2018 A lock was shot off of the Cemetery Hill Water Station and was discovered by Humane Borders volunteers on Sunday. According to Juanita Molina, the Executive Director of the Tucson-based humanitarian organization Humane Borders, vandalism of that organization’s water stations, designed to stop undocumented migrants from dying of thirst

We Still Need Volunteers

by Dinah Bear, Humane Borders Board Chair “Hasn’t most of the migration stopped? It doesn’t look like there is much water use at your stations. Why do you still need volunteers?”Questions like these are being asked by some individuals and they are fair and understandable questions. Whatever side of the political spectrum people you are

Connecting people with the resources to find their missing loved ones in Arizona

ABSTRACT: Undocumented Border Crosser (UBC) deaths in Arizona are a major issue faced by medicolegal authorities. Currently, the Maricopa County Office of the Medical Examiner (MCOME) is in possession of over two hundred unidentified individuals, more than half of whom are presumed to be UBCs. The primary goal of this study was to address the
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Awareness of and Reaction to Immigrant Deaths on the U.S. Border

Read this recent study on Awareness of and Reaction to Immigrant Deaths on the U.S. Border by Professor Brad Jones of U.C. Davis. Download PDF on Awareness of and Reaction to Immigrant Deaths on the U.S. Border