Reimagining Immigration and the US-Mexico Border

 

Voces Unidas RGV works to connect holistic embodiment practices for resilience in our immigrants rights programming. For the past two years, the organization has worked under a “small is all” approach, focused on healing centered exploration of ancestral wisdom, land based knowledge and interconnection to all beings.

 

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Elon Musk’s Texas Takeover How the world’s richest man transformed the Lone Star State into “the modern incarnation of the company town.”
Elon Musk’s Texas Takeover How the world’s richest man transformed the Lone Star State into “the modern incarnation of the company town.”

One afternoon in mid-August, I grabbed lunch with Michelle Serrano at a Mexican restaurant in Brownsville called Emilia’s. The spot, which still has an all-Spanish menu, used to bring in mariachi bands to entertain the lunch crowd, but as we chatted, an old white guy was performing “Take Me Home, Country Roads” by John Denver.

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‘Stabbed in the back’: Biden’s border wall U-turn leaves Indigenous and climate groups reeling
‘Stabbed in the back’: Biden’s border wall U-turn leaves Indigenous and climate groups reeling

Rio Grande communities feel like the ‘sacrificial lamb’ in a political war as climate activists and environmentalists call foul

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Will Elon Musk Austin-ify Brownsville? Some folks in Texas's poorest city see a new downtown mural funded by the billionaire's foundation as the writing on the wall.
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Will Elon Musk Austin-ify Brownsville? Some folks in Texas's poorest city see a new downtown mural funded by the billionaire's foundation as the writing on the wall.
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Organizations such as Voces Unidas RGV, a pro-immigration and community-development group that has a sizable Facebook following, have added SpaceX to the hot-button issues—the border wall, pipeline projects, reform of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement—they organize for and against.

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Voces Unidas RGV Responds to Biden’s Border Visit to Brownsville, Texas
Voces Unidas RGV Responds to Biden’s Border Visit to Brownsville, Texas

We don’t need hyper-militarization of our border. We need direct investment into our communities that are still struggling to receive street lights, clean, running water, and are facing the existential threat of climate change. Our communities deserve to be able to access education, nutrition and healthcare without fear. If President Biden seeks to be the public servant that people need, he must take the time to sit down with underserved communities to hear where they stand.

Biden's Proposed Border Deal Dismantles Community Trust 
Biden's Proposed Border Deal Dismantles Community Trust 

Brownsville, TX --  When then-candidate Joe Biden was on the campaign trail, he promised a better tomorrow for immigration policy. He promised to not build another foot of border wall. He broke that promise after being elected in July, 2021, and broke that promise again with current border wall construction, waiving 26 laws he didn’t have to waive, in order to get his Biden Border Wall fast-tracked. And now, at President Biden’s behest, congress is presenting a supplemental funding package that will not only fund ongoing wars, but demands immigration trade-offs that seek to shut down humanitarian asylum, fund more prisons and police for undocu-communities and people on the move, (with over $20 billion allocated for border militarization alone), all to a shocking $118 billion dollars billed to taxpayers. 

 

Rio Grande Valley organizers and artists joined together during the 2022 autumn solstice celebration for our Voces Unidas storytelling project. Here are some select photos of the event. All photos taken by Cielo Zuñiga. Learn more about the making of this special event by visiting our blog.