Articles written by: Jill Holslin

activist+professor+writer, border issues, urban art, Tijuana

Immigrant Rights Group Says Raids are Failed Approach
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Immigrant Rights Group Says Raids are Failed Approach

Quaker group responds to DHS statement and root causes of migration PHILADELPHIA, PA (January 5, 2016) In the wake of a series of controversial immigration raids to detain and deport Central American asylum seekers, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson released a statement defending the Obama Administration’s actions. The […]

Mexican/American/Mexican curated by Laura Migliorino at 801 Lofts in Minneapolis
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Mexican/American/Mexican curated by Laura Migliorino at 801 Lofts in Minneapolis

801 Washington Lofts
 Art at 801 Gallery presents our 10th Year of art shows Mexican/American/Mexican Curated by Laura Migliorino Featuring Selma Fernandez, David Maung, Jill Holslin, Jorge Santiago  Opening reception Saturday, June 20th, 2015 6pm to 9pm Show runs through September Photographer Laura Migliorino has curated a show of photographers […]

Department of Homeland Security calls McCaul & Congress Border Bill HR 399 “extreme”
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Department of Homeland Security calls McCaul & Congress Border Bill HR 399 “extreme”

DHS rejects Congress’s “Secure Our Borders First Bill” In a statement released yesterday by the press office of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, DHS Secretary Jeh C. Johnson called out the Congress for proposing a border bill that he claims will actually undermine border patrol capacity to adapt to emerging […]

San Diegans Concerned About McCaul Bill Calling For Militarization of Southern Border
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San Diegans Concerned About McCaul Bill Calling For Militarization of Southern Border

San Diego: The San Diego Immigrant Rights Consortium (SDIRC) expresses its concern about the H.R. 399, “Secure Our Borders First Act,” a border enforcement-only bill introduced on January 16, 2015 by Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), which seeks to further militarize border communities. The bill is a misguided attempt at addressing […]

Convivencia Ciudadana lifts up Tijuana’s neighborhoods with art and engagement
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Convivencia Ciudadana lifts up Tijuana’s neighborhoods with art and engagement

Slide show and discussion on Saturday, October 11 at 7:00 PM in San Diego’s Art Produce Gallery, on University Avenue in North Park Tijuana is thriving. And you see this mostly in Tijuana’s neighborhoods, its rows of new master-planned communities decorating the landscape, “For Sale” signs on every corner. An […]

Operation Gatekeeper: 20 Years of Militarizing the Border
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Operation Gatekeeper: 20 Years of Militarizing the Border

San Diego, CA:  On October 1, 1994, the federal government implemented Operation Gatekeeper along the California border with Mexico, as part of a larger border enforcement strategy. Gatekeeper had the intention of pushing the migrant flow away from urban areas and into less visible, but inhospitable and harsh terrain. Today, on its […]

El Club Margaritas de Camino Verde, Tijuana
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El Club Margaritas de Camino Verde, Tijuana

El Club Margaritas (The Daisy Club) is a group of women in the Colonia Camino Verde who meet to practice the traditional folkloric dances of Mexico. Here friends Mari Orozco, Olga Sifuentes, María Luisa Limón, Rosita Rodriguez pose for the camera at the 30th Anniversary Festival of Colonia Camino Verde […]

Ciudad en Diálogo/ City in Dialogue: Tijuana artists engage with the urban landscape
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Ciudad en Diálogo/ City in Dialogue: Tijuana artists engage with the urban landscape

“Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.” –Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American […]

Questions remain in Border Patrol shooting of Nogales teenager José Antonio Elena Rodríguez
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Questions remain in Border Patrol shooting of Nogales teenager José Antonio Elena Rodríguez

UPDATE: January 5, 2015   Former CBP Internal Affairs Chief describes surveillance video of the border shooting. In September 2014, Border Patrol Agent Lonnie Swartz was indicted by a federal grand jury for second-degree murder. In an interview with Telemundo, James Tomscheck, the ousted former head of U.S. Customs and […]

Creative Mornings Tijuana: Tijuana unites with creatives worldwide
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Creative Mornings Tijuana: Tijuana unites with creatives worldwide

Most people think they are more creative in the morning. Well, this morning Tijuana tested the theory with its second “Creative Mornings” event. At 8 AM at the offices of the advertising agency Fotográfika in downtown Tijuana, the creative community of the city gathered for gourmet coffee, delicious fresh breads, […]