Teen Separated From His Mom at the Border Shares His Ordeal
When James and his mother came to America seeking asylum together, they didn’t expect to spend nine months apart.
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7 Things Only Borderlanders Will Understand
#1 If you don’t pay attention while driving, you could end up in Mexico.
Young People Adapt to Changing Life At The Border
The national conversation on family separation is at a high pitch right now. Youth Radio’s team covering the border spoke with young people from El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico–who grew up never seeing the border as a dividing line.
This Is What It’s Like To Work In A Migrant Shelter As A College Student
Two college students take us inside their summer job: living and working with migrant families in a shelter at the Texas border.
Migrant Caravan: Dozens Still Waiting For Asylum At US-Mexico Border
Although some members of the migrant caravan have been allowed to begin the process to request asylum, dozens are still left outside in tents.
Youth Radio Podcast: Abortion in Texas
In this week’s podcast, Maya Cueva travels to McAllen, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley, to learn about what the only abortion clinic in the entire 1800 square mile region means for the community and activists on both sides of the abortion debate.
Meet Two Women Who Switched Sides in the Abortion Debate
Mercedes Soto, 32, is praying outside Whole Woman’s Health, in McAllen, Texas. It’s the last remaining abortion clinic in the…
From the Beast to the Fridge – A Salvadoran Youth’s Journey to the US
I soon realized why that bus hadn’t come: walking to school my dad and I passed two white sheets lying on the ground, both of them stained with blood. We later learned the victims were two local kids killed after trying to run away from gang members who were chasing them. It was 2006. A month later I left El Salvador and headed north for the United States.