ZOOMING TO THE BORDER
FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
REPORTS
OCTOBER 2020
It is at the border that the character of the nation is being defined, for better or for worse.
Fernando Garcia
Director, Border Network for Human RightsThe Chicago-based sister publications, The People’s Tribune and El Tribuno del Pueblo launched “The People to People Fact-Finding Delegation to Border” in collaboration with a group of activists, researchers, and independent journalists, who are deeply concerned about human rights violations at the U.S.-Mexico border. From August through October 2020, the group convened five virtual panels representing different sections of the US-Mexico Border. By making several virtual stops at border crossings along that route, in Brownsville, Texas-Matamoros, Tamaulipas, El Paso, Texas - Cuidad Juárez, Chihuahua, Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, Arizona, and Mexicali-Calexico, San Diego-Tijuana, we sought to reveal some of the specificities and commonalities between these embattled but nonetheless vibrant border communities.
