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Immigration

Posted inArticles

ICE in your community? Here’s what to know.

by Annie Rosenthal February 17, 2025February 14, 2025

Advocates say people who face less legal risk have an important role to play, from documenting raids to advocating for their neighbors.

The Dance to the Top of the Palm Tree, Bright Ntimba, Part I. 2021, oil on linen, 45 x 80 inches.
Posted inFebruary 2025: Immigrant Stories

Reenvisioning the image of immigration

by Chandler Fritz February 1, 2025January 31, 2025

Artist and refugee Papay Solomon juxtaposes European painting with African ancestry.

Posted inFebruary 2025: Immigrant Stories

‘This is about power’: Indigenous immigrants face a second Trump administration

by Anna V. Smith January 21, 2025February 7, 2025

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, who was banned from nine tribal reservations, will oversee policies uniquely important to Indigenous people.

Posted inIssues

‘Esto se trata de poder’: Los inmigrantes indígenas se enfrentan a una segunda administración de Trump

by Anna V. Smith January 21, 2025February 7, 2025

La gobernadora de Dakota del Sur, Kristi Noem, a quien se le prohibió la entrada a nueve reservas tribales, supervisará las políticas de importancia única para los pueblos indígenas.

Posted inDecember 2024: Land as Reparations

Denver rideshare drivers just launched a worker-owned co-op

by William M. Adler October 31, 2024November 21, 2024

A new alternative to Uber and Lyft aspires to give workers more income and more say over their working conditions.

Posted inArticles

A lens on the Latino vote in Yakima, Washington

by High Country News and Quiet Pictures October 25, 2024November 12, 2024

Organizers work to get out the vote within the diverse Latino population in the Yakima Valley.

Posted inArticles

Denver’s last slaughterhouse is on the ballot

by Raksha Vasudevan October 24, 2024October 24, 2024

Voters face a complicated choice between jobs, workers’ rights and animal welfare.

The early morning sun shines through the Sonoran Desert landscape near the U.S.-Mexico border in southern Arizona. According to the International Organization for Migration, the U.S.- Mexico border is the deadliest land route for migrants in the world.
Posted inSeptember 2024: When Migrants Go Missing

The fatal flaw in the Border Patrol’s rescue program

by Tanvi Misra September 1, 2024September 5, 2024

The Missing Migrant Program is meant to prevent deaths. Instead, it may be causing them.

Posted inSeptember 2024: When Migrants Go Missing

La falla fatal en las operaciones de rescate de la Patrulla Fronteriza

by Tanvi Misra September 1, 2024September 5, 2024

La agencia tiene la tarea de salvar a migrantes en peligro pero puede estar empeorando las cosas.

Posted inSeptember 2024: When Migrants Go Missing

Venezuelan migrants use social media to counter xenophobia

by Anthony J. Wallace September 1, 2024August 30, 2024

In the face of anti-immigration rhetoric, content creators show the ‘good outnumber the bad.’

Posted inSeptember 2024: When Migrants Go Missing

What a 9,000-mile butterfly migration taught me about queer survival

by Miles W. Griffis September 1, 2024August 30, 2024

‘Painted ladies’ go through extraordinary journeys, kindred to that of many LTBTQ+ people.

Posted inArticles

Arizona and Nevada edge toward Harris and Walz

by Erin X. Wong August 23, 2024August 23, 2024

The Democratic ticket is hitting home in Western swing states with young, minority and independent voters.

Picoso Farm in Gilroy, California, is still trying to recover from a series of devastating floods.
Posted inAugust 2024: In the Wake of the Floods

After historic floods, the safety net failed small farmers

by Sarah Trent August 1, 2024July 31, 2024

Climate disasters are killing the largest subset of California farms. Government programs are too.

Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness

‘It’s our stories that ground us to home’

by Ḵaa Yahaayí Shkalneegi Muriel Reid May 30, 2024May 29, 2024

#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.

Posted inArticles

Denver’s new immigration plan, explained

by Natalia Mesa May 16, 2024August 8, 2024

The new program caps shelter stays for all new immigrants but expands services for 800 asylum seekers.

Posted inArticles

Denver lanza programa de asistencia para solicitantes de asilo

by Natalia Mesa May 16, 2024August 8, 2024

El nuevo programa busca brindar apoyo a 800 recién llegados, pero cortará recursos para los demas.

New homes in Bozeman's Valley West.
Posted inMay 2024: A River Returns

Bozeman’s boom depends on immigrants but struggles to support them

by Nick Bowlin May 1, 2024May 6, 2024

One of the nation’s fastest-growing cities relies on a vulnerable population of workers to fuel its economic explosion.

New homes in Bozeman's Valley West.
Posted inMay 2024: A River Returns

Los motivos ocultos de la prosperidad de Bozeman

by Nick Bowlin May 1, 2024May 6, 2024

El auge económico de una de las ciudades estadounidenses con mayor crecimiento depende del trabajo de un grupo vulnerable de personas.

Posted inArticles

Meet the women fighting to end detention and deportation in Washington

by Natalia Mesa April 2, 2024April 4, 2024

La Resistencia is working alongside people in immigrant detention to shut down the Northwest Detention Center.

Posted inArticles

Conozca a las mujeres que luchan por acabar con las detenciones y las deportaciones en el estado de Washington

by Natalia Mesa April 2, 2024April 11, 2024

La Resistencia, un grupo de base en el noroeste del Pacifico, trabaja junto a personas detenidas para cerrar el Centro de Detención del Noroeste.

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