Human Mobility is a Human Right

Migration is a human right no matter what the laws say. In all social movements people have defied unjust laws to exercise their fundamental rights. Immigration is no different....to read the full article click here

The Need for Radical Action on Migrants Rights: Interview

CEIPAC: You recently spent a month along Mexico's Southern Border, in the city of Tapachula, what were the most outstanding moments or findings?

RY: Sure, in Tapachula, I think the memory that most sticks in my mind....to read full interview click here

The Watcher

Ray Ybarra monitors anti-immigrant militants in Arizona for the ACLU. Ray Ybarra's office is a decrepit brick storefront six blocks from Mexico in Douglas, Ariz., the historic border town where Ybarra was born. Now 26, Ybarra took a sabbatical from his final year of law school at Stanford University to come back to Douglas to work for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) monitoring anti-immigration militants in the southeastern Arizona badlands.

Inside Ybarra's sparse workspace, mounted on a wall like a trophy, is a blown-up copy of a letter to the FBI, dated March 25 and signed "James W. Gilchrist, Minuteman Project coordinator."....to read full interview click here

PUEBLO Bats Sheriff Joe Pinatas

 Well, Monday was a thrilling Cinco de Mayo here in the Valley, with hundreds of anti-immigration nutbars baying at the moon and frothing at the mouth, all over three pinatas filled with candy. The pinatas -- two bearing the visage of our corrupt top constable and one of a Sheriff's truck -- were beaten to a paper mache pulp Monday evening as part of the kickoff celebration for the PUEBLO Center for Legal and Human Rights, a new pro-immigrant organization focused on youth activism...read full article click here

Thinking and Acting Beyond Borders: An Evaluation of Diverse Strategies to Challenge Vigilante Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Sorry, this is a law review article so I don't have a link to the complete text of the thousands of words I use to describe what is actually a very simple concept. If you are interested in obtaining a copy please contact myself or the Journal directly at Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.