Report

NNIRR’s report, Human Rights on the Line, provides an overview of the dismal state of human rights on the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. NNIRR’s report highlights the experiences of frontline leaders and organizers with direct experience, both in theory and practice, of migrant human rights. Their contributions uncover the direct relationship between border militarization and its explicit racially discriminatory impact on the lives of black, indigenous, and other racialized communities migrating or residing in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

We hope this report enhances an understanding of the intersectional and interwoven consequences of border control and how this approach provokes overlapping violence and vulnerabilities in people of color in the borderlands. While U.S. immigration agencies and institutions profess a color-blind approach, black and brown communities bear the burden of militarization and immigration enforcement.

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