Out of the Gates: A short documentary
In this short documentary, follow Amelia Hauschild, a 16-year-old jockey, as she prepares for her first race as a professional and deals with the challenges of being a female in a male dominated sport.
Rhetoric fails to match deportation orders
In one of many campaign promises, Donald Trump promised to deport the millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States. Yet according to the Syracuse University database TRAC, of the 105,853 completed cases in the 2017 fiscal year, from October 2016 through March 2017, in about half of all immigration court cases judges allowed the undocumented immigrant to stay in the United…
One in 11 million: life and times of an undocumented resident
When the words “build a wall, “illegal aliens,” “Trump” or “deportation” blast from the television screen, Juan sends his 9-year-old U.S. citizen grandson outside to play. Juan, a long-term undocumented immigrant, doesn’t want him to worry. Juan first came to the United States when he was 19 and has lived in Tucson since, calling…
A wall within a wall: How Trump’s plan affects already divided Tohono O’odham nation
For the Tohono O’odham nation, a border wall already exists, it just hasn’t been built yet. In the desert of southern Arizona, the federally recognized O’odham reservation occupies 4,464 square miles of desert that half of its 34,000 enrolled population call home. But, the original tribal land — roughly the size of Connecticut — extends far past…
In the shadow of the wall: A tribe divided
An in-depth look at how President Trump’s border wall threatens to separate the already divided Tohono O’odham Indian reservation.