In a cover story for High Country News, photographer Bear Guerra documents the tension in US Border Control’s dual mission to detain and deport migrants and to rescue those in distress.
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Winds of Change Sweep the West
The spectacle of far-right hate groups launching violent attacks around the country cannot obscure the deeper changes that are transforming political and social life across the region, Ruxandra Guidi writes in High Country News.
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The Homelands Blog
Bear takes new post at High Country News
We are pleased to announce that Roberto (Bear) Guerra has been named photo editor of High Country News. Bear is an award-winning documentary photographer and photojournalist whose work addresses globalization, development, and social and environmental …
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The Homelands Blog
Letters from Miguel
In an essay for High Country News, Homelands’ Ruxandra Guidi tells of her attempt to assuage her feelings of helplessness by connecting with a young Guatemalan in detention in California. “Over just the past two …
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The Homelands Blog
Trump’s false narrative of chaos
In her latest commentary for High Country News, Ruxandra Guidi writes how the U.S.-Mexico border has become a stage for political theater, and why the Trump administration’s “deterrence” tactic against undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers is cruel and inhumane. …
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The Homelands Blog
In California desert, local activists begin seeing results
For the last several years, Homelands’ Ruxandra Guidi and Bear Guerra have been visiting California’s Coachella Valley to document the environmental and health disasters there, from contaminated water to pesticide pollution to hazardous waste. Now, in a major piece …