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Truth On The Line is a story about media, journalism, immigration, and life, written and directed by my friend Steev Hise. Steev is a multimedia artist living in Tucson, Arizona, and producer of many excellent films, including “On the Edge,” a documentary about the femicides in Ciudad Juarez. By the […]
Southern Border Region | After years of advocating for the Federal Government to control the U.S. Border Patrol, the Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) has learned that the Office of the Inspector General will be conducting an investigation that will look into cases of brutality or use of excessive force by Customs and […]
This Sunday, October 14, at 1 pm two pastors – one standing in Mexico and one in the United States – will serve communion at Friendship Park, the historic meeting place on the U.S.-Mexico border. Update: READ HERE Reverend John Fanestil’s account of the communion service. This past week officials […]
“Somos familia de Dios, We are family of God,” Silvia offered with a smile. I had just asked if she was here with her family, and Silvia reached out to testify. “Are you a Christian?” she asked. I stopped to chat with Silvia today at Parque del Mar, the Tijuana […]
The rich rhetoric about border security in the United States makes for a great story. And we hear lots of stories about the border these days: The federal government has failed to secure our southern border. Treacherous criminals threaten our way of life. Home and family are under siege. As […]
This is an article I wrote in January 2011 recounting the history of our coalition, published in the anthology Wounded Border/Frontera Herida: Readings on the Tijuana/San Diego Region and Beyond. Eds. Justin Akers Chacón and Enrique Davalos. City Works Press. 2011. Click here to order ************ A PARK, OR A […]
Since when did people who protect our wildlands become the enemy? That’s exactly what the sponsors of a new bill in the House of Representatives want us to believe. Touted as a “border bill,” the omnibus bill HR 2578, titled Conservation and Economic Growth Act, rolls together 14 bills and […]
Hey, I just found this terrific blog called 21st Century Border, a project of the New Policy Institute, and it looks really great. Tania Lara will be their summer blogger, and she’s got a journalistic background in both Mexican and U.S. media. She’s promising to cover the U.S. Congress, the […]
Under H.R. 1505, put forth by Representative Rob Bishop (R-UT), the Department of Homeland Security would be explicitly exempt from complying with dozens of environmental, public health, and safety laws for activities needed to help achieve “operational control” of the US border on Federal public and tribal lands within 100 […]
SAN DIEGO, CA – The Southern Border Communities Coalition condemns the Department of Justice decision not to prosecute the Border Patrol agent responsible for killing 15 year-old Ciudad Juarez resident Sergio Adrián Hernández Güereca. The violent incident was caught on video by bystanders and sent shockwaves across the borderlands on […]