Dora Rodriguez’s tell-all tale of Surviving the Sonoran Desert — On Monday, May 23, 2022, as the world awaited the long-fought for lifting of Title 42, the United Nations dropped the bomb that there are now more than 100 million people forcibly displaced worldwide. That means 1 in every 100 people on the planet…

And who gets pushed back to Mexico or Rwanda or Libya or left to die in the desert or at sea? — This episode of Witness Radio is a mind-blowing treat. Executive Producer Camilo Perez-Bustillo and I join Professors Nandita Sharma and Reece Jones to explore the question: From the war in Ukraine to the U.S.-Mexico border and beyond: Who gets welcomed? Who gets to move? We…

Proof that immigration IS a Black issue — The past two years have brought the world changes never imagined: a global pandemic; the lockdowns and the losses; the border closures and the politics of avoiding illness, even death. But throughout it all, there is one thing that hasn’t skipped a beat: the US Deportation Machine.

President Biden takes Trump’s victims to court — Witness Radio’s Sarah Towle and Camilo Perez-Bustillo kick off our second season, reflecting on the Biden administration’s one-year record on border and immigration, framed through the civil rights legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. They start with the question, What would Dr. King have…

Wrapping people along with packages, the world’s richest online retailer joins the global war on asylum — On his November 5, 2021, third-quarter investor call, Rich Corrado, CEO of Air Transport Services Group took a moment to celebrate one of ATSG’s subsidiaries: Omni Air International. Omni evacuated more than 20,000 US-Americans and at-risk civilians out of Afghanistan in August 2021, contributing to the company’s record quarterly revenue…

The Grand Finale of Witness Radio’s Inaugural Season — A cruel, anti-asylum Trump-era policy is back under a president who promised a more humane border: the Migrant “Protection” Protocols, which never protected anyone at all. President Joe Biden maintains that his Remain in Mexico program, or MPP 2.0, will be a gentler, “lite”…

Camilo Perez-Bustillo and Sarah Towle in conversation on International Migrants Day 2021 — In December 2018, Heads of State and Government met in Marrakech, Morocco under the auspices of the United Nations to adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration, placing migration and refugee matters squarely on the international agenda. Camilo Perez-Bustillo, the Executive Producer of Witness Radio, was there.

Before and during ICE-Air deportations back to harm on Omni Air International — Following two ICE-Air mass deportation flights to Cameroon tracked by Tom Cartwright of Witness at the Border in the fall of 2020, I couldn’t escape the rumblings of attorneys and advocates for the roughly 80 individuals the US government went to extraordinary lengths — and taxpayer expense — to return…

One couple’s traumatic seven-year journey to find their daughter separated from them at the US southern border — In a month that history will remember for the US welcoming Afghan refugees fleeing political chaos, violence, and persecution while expelling Haitians fleeing all these things and more, we perhaps lost sight of the nearly 13,000 children still being held captive by the US Department of Health and Human Services…