By Carlos Gama/El Inde Picture being a young kid in a car with a very religious parent. While you are listening to a point your mother or father is making about your need to follow their religion, you say something along the lines of ,“That is fine if you choose to believe that, but I…
By Trent Anderson/El Inde Olivia Coleman has spent the last several months asking every stranger she has met: “Are you registered to vote?” She doesn’t care who you voted for. She doesn’t want to have a political debate. She just wants every eligible voter to participate. In fact, she likes asking people about voting so…
By Conor Vilines/El Inde On February 27, an unfinished tunnel for smuggling drugs connecting Santa Cruz County to the Mexican state of Sonora was discovered by Border Patrol and their Mexican counterparts. The secret underground tunnel began inside a drainage system under Nogales, Sonora and ended inside its American sister city. It is one of…
y Ireland Stevenson/El Inde On June 1, 2018, Kathi Noaker, Linda Hirsch, and six other Voices from the Border volunteers trekked across the U.S.-Mexico border hauling bags of supplies in hopes of lending a hand and making a difference. When they arrived to see more than 100 migrants sitting on the floor at the port…
By Sasha Hartzell/El Inde In the high desert of southeastern Arizona, there is a vast range of grassland known by the local Border Patrol agents simply as ‘the valley.’ An aerial view of the region reveals a shape like cupped hands, the Huachuca and Patagonia Mountain ranges curving around a long, shadowed hollow: this is…
