Eileen Truax est une journaliste acclamée dont le travail se concentre sur l'immigration et les dynamiques interculturelles. À travers ses écrits, elle éclaire des histoires de vie complexes et les luttes quotidiennes d'individus naviguant dans l'espace entre deux cultures. Ses reportages et ses livres se caractérisent par une profonde perspicacité et une approche empathique des questions sociales sensibles. Truax se concentre sur les expériences de ceux qui recherchent une vie meilleure et luttent pour leurs rêves malgré des obstacles considérables.
Focusing on the experiences of a generation brought to the U.S. as children, this book explores the struggles and aspirations of those fighting for legal status. It highlights the challenges they face within the immigration system while emphasizing their resilience and determination to achieve their dreams. Through personal narratives and insights, it sheds light on the broader social and political implications of their fight for recognition and belonging in American society.
From a storefront law office in the US border city of El Paso, Texas, one man set out to tear down the great wall of indifference raised between the US and Mexico. Carlos Spector has filed hundreds of political asylum cases on behalf of human rights defenders, journalists, and political dissidents. Though his legal activism has only inched the process forward -- 98 percent of refugees from Mexico are still denied asylum -- his myriad legal cases and the resultant media fallout has increasingly put US immigration policy, the corrupt state of Mexico, and the political basis of immigration, asylum, and deportation decisions on the spot. We Built the Wall is an immersive, engrossing look at the new front in the immigration wars. It follows the gripping stories of people like Saúl Reyes, forced to flee his home after a drug cartel murdered several members of his family, and Delmy Calderón, a forty-two-year-old woman leading an eight-woman hunger strike in an El Paso detention center. Truax tracks the heart-wrenching trials of refugees like Yamil, the husband and father who chose a prison cell over deportation to Mexico, and Rocio Hernández, a nineteen-year-old who spent nearly her entire life in Texas and is now forced to live in a city where narcotraffickers operate with absolute impunity
"Dreamers and their allies, those who care about immigration justice, and anyone interested in the experience of Mexicans in the US will respond to these stories of Mexican immigrants (some documented, some not) illuminating their complex lives. Regardless of status, many are subjected to rights violations, inequality, and violence--all of which existed well before the Trump administration--and have profound feelings of being unwanted in the country they call home"--