Immigration

What Transborder Students Know about Immigration. (That Zoom Bombers Don’t)/Lo que los estudiantes transfronterizos saben sobre inmigración. (y lo que los saboteadores de Zoom no saben), UNAM Internactional

This magazine article shares a zoom bombing I experienced during a book talk for the Harvard Immigration Initiative. Following the event, I kept thinking about the contrast between how the transborder student co-presenters understood immigration contrasted with the (mis)understandings of the zoom bombers. This piece delves into that dichotomy.

Common Questions Educators Have about Immigration, Answered, Education Week

When it Comes to Educating Immigrant Teens, Experts Say There are No Easy Solutions, Miami Herald

These Immigrants Came for a Better Life. Now they Never Graduate High School, Miami Herald

A Passport Stamp Gives Dreamers Hope as Trump Era Looms, New York Times

I have been able to take two classes of CUNY students to study abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico. While learning beyond the classroom walls is always a powerful experience, this article shows the impact of the class on students who were recipients of DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals).

In US, Some Immigrants Seek to Leave So They Can Stay, Wall Street Journal
Fearing Trump Crackdown, ‘Dreamers’ Advised to End Travel, Associated Press/NBC
Should Immigration be Part of High School Curricula?, Vice
Screening of the Film Una Vida, Dos Países, BronxNet
‘Una Vida, Dos Países’ Reveals the Pain Felt by US-Raised Kids who Return to Mexico, Remezcla

As Mexican Families Leave U.S. for Home, Film Focuses on the Children, New York Times

This article delves into the film I produced and co-directed, Una Vida, Dos Países [One Life, Two Countries]: Children and Youth (Back) in Mexico. It addressed why the film was created and follows up with a father from one of the featured families who lives in NYC while being separated from his children in Mexico.

Persiguen el sueño americano, Azteca Noticias