By Luke Walters The little girl’s teal hat is what caught my eye. She and a woman were hugging the bottom of a gravel drainage ditch, hidden from sight—except to me, perched high in my rig. I’d just passed dozens more like them sitting cross-legged along the highway next to green-striped border patrol trucks. Their [...]
By Elizabeth Weaver girl with eyes too large and milky teeth fairies must wait years for in country that ripped her from Mama locked her in metal cage no laughter crosses her howl swells into lost others’ sounds for families babies resounds past soiled dreams strips belonging as those ripping teach children how arms are [...]
By Matthew Nelson Hendryx The warrant for my informant’s arrest meant meeting in a public place where we could keep track of anyone approaching. We settled for the revamped carousel on the National Mall. He could watch in all directions as we rotated. I, freelance reporter Stacy Prickelton, was meeting with a prominent member of the [...]
By Ellen Stone Deep in the bright red country of the sun, the birds of America raucous, wild, immigrant gather, having flocked in bands surged over borders as snow melts. By July, they rise early to the party in full bloom – voices piercing our cottony night dreams – having taken temporary residence in tiny [...]
By Sara Marchant On Wednesday, during peer review, a student waves me over to say something in a voice so low and hoarse I strain to catch the words. “ICE went into Cardenas Market and took people away.” “What?” I say. I must have misunderstood. The students are reviewing papers with topics like Foucault’s panopticism, [...]
By Laura Grace Weldon Frantic families send their children past drug runners and thieves, through deserts, on tops of freight trains, over 1,700 miles seeking refuge at our border. Tonight, we tweeze sushi into our mouths under a blast of chilled Happy Hour air. Screens broadcast dark-eyed children behind chain link fences while protestors chant Go [...]
