Life on Pause: The Children Left in Limbo
For U.S.-born children of Mexican parents, a paperwork barrier can cost years they can never get back. By Tracy L. BarnettFor Mexico News Daily “One thing about me, I loved school.” Lina remembers herself before her mother’s deportation as the girl who talked to everyone. She played basketball and piano, studied French, painted — and […]
U.S., Mexican law students tackle deportation across borders
Text and photos: Tracy L. BarnettFor The Guadalajara Reporter What does an immigration lawyer do when a client’s most urgent problem isn’t immigration law, but insulin? That was one of the questions confronting Mexican and U.S. law students gathered at the Tecnológico de Monterrey’s Guadalajara campus Aug. 12 for a binational exercise examining what happens […]
A Seat at the Table: Food, Migration and an Unexpected Journey Home
By Tracy L. Barnett and Tran Dang Reinaldo was not supposed to be the story of the evening. The deported Panamanian U.S. Army veteran had arrived in Guadalajara from Panama City just the day before, on his way north toward Ciudad Juárez for a naturalization interview. Nine years after being deported from a country where […]
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