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Border enforcement and free-trade policies directly affect the lives of working people and immigrants. Researchers, advocates, and activists for human rights can find history and resources on this site.

Women and Globalization

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

Reimagining the Border

With social critique and humor artists and activists reimagine human relationships along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Immigration and Detention

Women on the Border offers resources for the struggle to uphold the human rights of migrants and the undocumented.

Our History

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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Follow the Money – Profiting from the Inhumanity of Trump’s Mass Deportation Programs.

by Elvia Arriola | Oct 16, 2026 | Migrants and Human Rights

Follow the Money -- Profiting from the Inhumanity of Trump's Mass Deportation Programs by Elvia Rosales Arriola*** Stephen Miller, the key figure behind the current mass deportation policies is the descendant of immigrants. So is his boss, the president. But their...

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...

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www.facebook.com/share/p/1DuCQNYUBV/BREAKING🚨 ICE detained an Austin carpenter on his way to work. Now his pregnant wife has to raise $12,000 for a lawyer while caring for their toddler ALONE.Yesenia Santiago woke up on Sept. 21 to a text from her husband, Lucas, asking her to go get his van. Inside she found coffee in the cupholders and a pack of cookies spilled on the floor. "The tacos were still freaking warm," she said.Lucas Santiago, his brother and a friend were detained in South Austin while driving to a job for his carpentry business. It was the morning after an ICE agent shot 28-year-old Wilber Garces Perez in North Austin. After that shooting, ICE vowed it "will not be slowing down operations in Austin."Nobody has said why agents stopped the van. Lucas told Yesenia they never mentioned a traffic violation or any crime. The family had done everything they could think of. Lucas checked his van's lights every morning. He got a library card just so he'd have a photo ID. Yesenia started driving the family everywhere.The couple met at Cristo Rey Catholic Church in East Austin in 2016 and married in 2021. They bought a house and filed paperwork to start getting him legal status. Years later, it still hasn't been approved. Yesenia was born and raised in Austin. Lucas came from San Luis Potosí, Mexico, as a teenager.When they lost their first baby at 19 weeks, Lucas got Yesenia through a deep depression. Their son Yadiel was born in 2025. She was less than two months from giving birth to their second child when ICE took him."I am not a single mom. I have the best dad I could ever ask for my children, but he got taken from me," she said.Lucas is now in an immigration detention center in Taylor, Texas. ICE says he'll stay there while his case is pending, as Greta Díaz González Vázquez first reported in KUT 90.5. Lawyers told Yesenia it will likely be months.She has to come up with at least $12,000 for a lawyer, figure out the bills Lucas always paid, and find a job and child care with a newborn on the way."Hold on to God's hands," Lucas told her in Spanish on a call from detention. "And be strong, now more than ever, because you're pregnant."If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here. ...

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www.facebook.com/share/1H42zwrQo8/?mibextid=wwXIfrBREAKING🚨 ICE just jailed an Afghan Fulbright scholar who sought asylum after the Taliban took over, weeks before her asylum interview. Benazir Noorzad, 32, was getting ready to board a flight to Virginia at Detroit Metro Airport on Thursday night, October 22, when ICE agents took her into custody. As of Sunday, ICE's own detainee locator still listed her at the Calhoun County Correctional Center in Battle Creek.Noorzad came to the U.S. in 2021 as a Fulbright scholar at Oklahoma State University. While she was here, the Taliban seized Afghanistan. She applied for asylum rather than go back. Her application was never denied. She was scheduled to sit for her asylum interview in the coming weeks.For the past year, she has worked as a human resources representative in Genesee County's benefits division, helping county employees with their benefits. Her department head, county HR director Anita Galajda, says Noorzad is in the country lawfully while her asylum case is processed.Galajda called her "one of the kindest human beings I've ever met in my life," and said Noorzad quickly became friends with everyone in the office.Her brother, Matiullah Noorzad, is a green card holder who says he helped the U.S. military in Afghanistan. He says his wife also worked alongside the U.S. government there. He believes those family ties could put his sister's life in danger if she is deported. He says she is devastated and confused. He calls the detention unjustified and is begging for her to be released under supervision while her case moves forward.ICE has not said why it detained her and did not respond to requests for comment. It is not clear whether she has a lawyer or whether a bond hearing has even been scheduled.She is far from the only one. One Michigan immigration attorney said last month that roughly half of his 300 asylum-seeking clients are now in detention.If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here. ...

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www.facebook.com/share/1HcYg7YiRA/?mibextid=wwXIfrToday, the Fifth Circuit stripped immigrants facing detention in Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi of their right to due process. People who have lived in our communities for years, even decades, can now be locked away with no chance to see a judge or ask for bond. It’s a radical departure from decades of legal precedent and violates the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution, which protects everyone. This ruling leaves tens of thousands of people imprisoned without the government ever having to say why. It is wrong, and we will keep fighting. ...

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