Mishaps and mayhem from around the region.
Immigration
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ICE raids in Colorado highlight how violent the U.S. has become
After migrating to Canada, a journalist reckons with the grief and gratitude of having left.
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Sen. Mike Lee’s new bill permits ‘tactical infrastructure’ in wilderness areas
The Border Lands Conservation Act gives the Department of Homeland Security the power to waive myriad federal laws, including the Wilderness Act, under the pretense of border security.
Posted inOctober 2025: Limits to Growth
Ventura County is turning former farmland into affordable housing for farmworkers
This California county has some of the nation’s strictest protections for agricultural land, but developers are using a new exemption to house people who work the land.
Posted inSeptember 2025: Who Controls Our Food?
What eating bitterness has to do with Chinese food
The Chinese immigrants who built the Transcontinental Railroad quietly endured racism and violence, fostering a complicated legacy for Chinese-Americans.
Posted inSeptember 2025: Who Controls Our Food?
Acknowledging the hands that feed us
Narsiso Martinez aims to dignify farmworkers through his artwork
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Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire
Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.
Posted inSeptember 2025: Who Controls Our Food?
How an immigration raid reshaped meatpacking — and America
In 2006, large-scale ICE raids in Greeley, Colorado, and elsewhere, triggered changes to the center of the country that fed today’s nativist politics.
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How community assemblies kindle advocacy and solutions
Labor organizer Rosalinda Guillen explains how participatory democracy gives workers political power.
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An Interior Department veteran looks to the future
Jacob Malcom, founder of Next Interior, shares his fears for the agency and his hopes for a post-Trump reconstruction.
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In Albuquerque, developers are turning old motels into affordable housing
Once-dilapidated buildings are finding new life as homes for immigrants and other working-class New Mexicans.
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Amid raids in California, families struggle to locate detained workers
Days after the workplace immigration raids that first sparked protests in Los Angeles, families still had no contact with relatives in detention.
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Can this Washington member of Congress turn the Democratic Party around?
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez’ ‘Blue Dog’ strategy of appealing to working-class rural moderates won her a long-held Republican district.
Posted inJune 2025: The Promised Land
The promised land remains elusive for asylum seekers
Some people stuck at the U.S.-Mexico border are forced to risk their lives attempting to cross the desert.
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Working in the Permian Basin comes at a high cost
Oil workers in New Mexico are subjected to harrowing conditions that lead to death, injury, disease and terrible tolls on mental health and family life.
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The poetic contradictions of the Borderlands
Roberto Tejada’s new book, ‘Carbonate of Copper,’ explores surveillance and solidarity along the Rio Grande.
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Immigrants feel hope, hate and hunted
Under the Trump administration, immigrants across the West worry for their safety.
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Los inmigrantes sienten esperanza, odio y se sienten perseguidos
Bajo la administración Trump, los inmigrantes de todo el oeste temen por su seguridad.
Posted inMay 2025: The Art of the Cruise
The subversive power of Spanish-language radio
For decades, immigrant communities have used the airwaves to educate and protect themselves. Under Trump, they’re doing it again.
Posted inMay 2025: The Art of the Cruise
El poder subversivo de la radio en español
Durante décadas, las comunidades inmigrantes han usado las ondas para educarse y protegerse. Bajo la administración de Trump, lo están haciendo de nuevo.