Related News at Luther College

• Luther College faculty helps develop VIISTA program to train immigrant advocates - Feb 22, 2021

• Endangered mothers or ‘anchor babies’? Migration motivators for pregnant unaccompanied Central American teens - Journal Article by Luther Faculty, Susan Schmidt, Social Work

• Center for Migration Studies, “They need to Give Us a Voice’: Lessons from Listening to Unaccompanied Central American and Mexican Children on Helping Children Like Themselves. By Susan Schmidt, Social Work, Luther College

In the News -- Keep up on the Latest Information

• https://www.pbs.org/wnet/amanpour-and-company/video/us-mexico-border-unmarked-graves-and-thousands-missing-spt29/

• https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/10/03/world/americas/mexico-missing-people.html

• https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/topic/immigration-6498395

• 2020 was the deadliest year for migrants crossing unlawfully into US via Arizona

• As Biden Prepares to Take Office, A New Rush at the Border - NYT, Dec 13, 2020. (Over 200 bodies of migrants recovered just this year)

• A Rush to Expand the Border Wall That Many Fear is Here to Stay - NYT Nov. 30, 2020

• Facing COVID-19 as an Undocumented Essential Worker - Sapiens.org Dec. 3, 2020

• After a Lull, the Number of Migrants Trying to Enter the U.S. Has Soared. NYT, Aug. 2020

• They Died Near the Border. Art Students Hope to Bring Them Back - NYT 2018

• A Path to America Marked by More and More Bodies - 2017 Article on Texas cases.

Related Topics in the News and Academia

• Women from the Northern Triangle: Escaping Violence? -- Wilson Center Global Fellow Guadalupe Correa explains the risks that women and girls from El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala face as migrants on the journey north, including from gang violence and human trafficking, in the latest episode of the Accessing Justice podcast.

• How Climate Change is driving emigration from Central America

Recommended Films and Series

• Luther Kanopy: "Who is Dayani Crystal?" - film Recommended by many Luther faculty. tells the story of a migrant who found himself in the deadly stretch of desert known as “the corridor of death” and shows how one life becomes a testimony to the tragic results of the U.S. war on immigration.

• World Iowa PBS Access to Documentary: Border South

Directed by Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana, who over the course of five years filmed the migrant routes from southern Mexico to the U.S. Mexico Border. The film highlights Gustavo Lopez Quiroz, a Nicaraguan migrant trying to cross into America through Mexico, and Jason De León, a US anthropologist seeking traces of others who never made it. Paz-Pastrana assembles a vivid portrait of the thousands of immigrants who disappear along the trail. Border South reveals the immigrants’ resilience, ingenuity, and humor as it exposes a global migration system that renders human beings invisible in life as well as death.

• Immigration Nation- television series on Netflix. With unprecedented access to ICE operations, as well as moving portraits of immigrants, this docuseries takes a deep look at US immigration today.

• A 3 Minute Hug- A short film on Netflix. A 2019 documentary film directed and written by Everardo González, revolving around the temporary reunion between people and families separated by the US/Mexico border, organized by the Border Network for Human Lives.