New plans for "sealing" the border between Mexico and the U.S., insisted on by Republicans as a condition for their support of immigration reform, do nothing to deal with the root causes of undocumented immigration and are doomed to fail, while increasing suffering and deaths at the border. The...

By Heidi Beirich, Intelligence Project Director This spring, a high-society New York magazine called Quest ran a short feature about Emilia Fanjul, the wife of sugar baron Jose "Pepe" Fanjul, and her remarkable efforts to help black and migrant worker children out of poverty. The...