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Exploitation in global factories has led women workers to fight for fair wages and empower themselves through fair trade networks.

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Women on the Border was founded in 2001 to support the empowerment of women working in the NAFTA factories (maquiladoras) at the U.S.-Mexico border.

In recent years, as U.S. policy has become more hostile than ever to migrants, workers, and people of color, Women on the Border has sought to promote scholarship and activism calling for freedom, justice and human dignity.

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ICE TERRORISM PERSISTS

by Elvia Arriola | Sep 4, 2026 | Migrants and Human Rights

There aren't any other words to describe the humanitarian consequences of Mr. Trump's anti-immigrant campaign launched after he took over the Oval office in January 2025. It is terrorism legitimated by a country in the grips of a fascistic mindset: At all costs...

Sifting Through the Chaos, Revised 2/2026

by Jess Chapin | Feb 4, 2026 | Migrants and Human Rights

The impact of escalating and militarized ICE raids, threats to freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, and the loss of respect for the US on a global stage, is overwhelming. What is happening? Where should we look for trustworthy news and in-depth analysis in these...

Grassroots Resistance Organizing Against ICE Attacks

by Elvia Arriola | Feb 4, 2026 | Migrants and Human Rights

Before they took his cell phone, Joseph* called his wife. He had been arrested by ICE agents just as he was dropping off their two daughters at school. He didn’t know what would happen or how long it would all take. The ICE agents didn’t care that he had been...

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AILA Executive Director responds: "DHS purposely broke the asylum system and now has the audacity to blame immigration lawyers & AILA for the wreckage. AILA won’t stand for the false claims, rather, we stand for the highest standards of professional responsibility. We will fiercely defend lawyers who fulfill their ethical obligation to represent their clients, challenge unlawful government action, and insist that constitutional protections mean something in practice. "DHS fired immigration judges, pressured their new hires to deny relief faster, restricted judicial discretion, and starved the system of resources (then poured money into detention and mass deportation instead of fixing adjudication). aila.org/library/policy-brief-america-needs-independent-fair-and-efficient-immigration-courts "DHS routed asylum cases away from trained asylum officers into overwhelmed immigration courts, pushed for cases to get dismissed before people could present evidence, and arrested people outside courtrooms after they showed up for required hearings. aila.org/library/policy-brief-modernizing-americas-asylum-system "An asylum claim isn't meritless or fraudulent because the government doesn't like it. Fraud requires knowing deception, not an adverse ruling, not trauma-related inconsistencies, not translation gaps, not missing evidence from a collapsing state. The hypocrisy is staggering: the US sent the military after Maduro for narcoterrorism, calls gang violence and state collapse in Venezuela, Cuba, Haiti & Nicaragua a 'grave hemispheric security threat' then insists asylum claims from those exact conditions are inherently fake. "Immigration lawyers don't write asylum law. Congress does. They don't decide cases. Judges do. Their job is making sure people get the hearing the law promises. If DHS wants real reform: more trained asylum officers, more adjudication capacity, fewer attacks on due process. A 'Better Way' can be found here: aila.org/library/a-better-way-on-immigration" ...

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Right now, immigrant children are being fast-tracked into deportation proceedings, often without access to legal counsel and representation in immigration court. Local elected officials recently observed kids' hearings in the Chicago Immigration Court. Read WBEZ's coverage, unpacking how these actions are affecting youth in court: ...

Chicago immigration court violated due process for minors with removal orders, lawmakers say

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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin and immigration advocates sounded an alarm Wednesday over what they described as systemic due process violations at Chicago's Downtown immigration court.

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