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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/1C1Azk97ta/?mibextid=wwXIfrBREAKING🚨 ICE took a California nursing professor from her home, and then she disappeared from ICE's own detainee locator. Her family searched for THREE DAYS before she called them from Louisiana.Dr. Ann Lawani, 39, was arrested by ICE agents at her home in Lodi on September 16. State Sen. Jerry McNerney says they shackled her at the ankles, waist and hands. She got one call to her family from a holding facility in Stockton.After that, nothing. Her attorney, Natalia Vieira Santana, says ICE moved her to Bakersfield, then El Paso, then Louisiana, and somewhere along the way she stopped showing up in the online locator families use to find detainees. Three days later she finally reached her family from a detention center in Louisiana.ICE officials have said the agency stopped disclosing where many detainees are held on September 15. Lawani was taken the next day. The new policy pulls people with old deportation orders out of the public database. In late October, immigration lawyers sued, saying it keeps attorneys and families from reaching the people inside.In 2013 an immigration judge turned down her asylum claim but ruled she could not be sent back to Nigeria because she "more likely than not" faced persecution there. She has renewed her work permit ever since. The current one is valid until 2029.DHS says she was detained because of that 2013 removal order and will stay in custody until she's deported. Her attorney says that leaves out the part where the same judge, on the same day, granted her protection. Rep. Josh Harder says ICE has tried to deport her to an undisclosed third country without giving her lawyer the documents.Lawani oversees 230 nursing students at the University of San Francisco and works as a nurse at John Muir Health. She stayed on the front lines through COVID. She also cares for her 83-year-old father, who is now in the hospital. ICE took her three weeks into the semester. "It feels like a bomb was dropped into our school," said her dean, Eileen Fry-Bowers.Her brother, Samuel Lawani, called what was done to his sister "simply evil and consequential." Her lawyers are waiting for a federal judge to rule on a petition for her release. She has now been held in Louisiana for eight weeks.If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here. ...

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Since President Trump returned to office, the U.S. government has dramatically expanded jailing of asylum seekers, forced deportations to third-party countries, and disruptions to processing asylum and lawful protections people received.Yet, Canada continues turning away people seeking safety under the Safe Third Country Agreement, putting many BIPOC and LGBTQ+ people, as well as children and women fleeing persecution, at risk of harm.This cannot continue, which is why NIJC is proud to join this letter with 130+ organizations and people who serve and advocate on behalf of people seeking U.S.-based asylum to demand change.📄 Read the full letter here: immigrantjustice.org/blog/the-united-states-is-not-safe-for-asylum-seekers-statement-from-130-u-s... ...

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