Open Borders

Abolish the Concentration Camps, Abolish the U.S. Southern Border
The concentration camps at the southern border are symptomatic of the imperial practices of both parties. These camps, along with the southern border, must be abolished.
Caleb De Jong
July 10, 2019Release All Detained Immigrants, Shut Down Detention Camps!
Conditions inside US detention camps at the border are a humanitarian crisis.We demand the immediate release of all imprisoned immigrants and the closing of the detention camps.
Madeleine Freeman
July 3, 2019Borders and Capitalism: A Socialist Perspective
The socialist left needs to transform the opposition to ICE into a struggle for open borders. As part of the debate around Bernie Sander's opposition to open borders, we are publishing this article from the latest issue of Left Voice magazine.
Sonja Krieger
April 22, 2019A Second Child Dies in the Custody of the US Border Patrol
The death of Félix Gómez Alonzo comes three weeks after Jakelin Caal Maquin, a 7-year-old Guatemalan girl, also died in U.S. custody.
Luigi Morris
December 27, 2018The Deportation of Víctor Mejía: The Mexican State Under Trump
The deportation of Víctor Mejía from Mexico, known as “assisted return,” is a result of the Mexican state’s policy of purging as many migrants as possible, with little regard for basic human rights. Mexico’s National Institute of Migration (INM) has become the United States’ local immigration enforcer.
La Izquierda Diario Mexico
December 8, 2018Nagle Is Wrong: There Is No Left Case Against Open Borders
Angela Nagle and other reformists are wrong. The “left case” against open borders ignores imperialism and functions on the false premise that capitalists want to open the borders.
Jimena Vergara
November 30, 2018CUNY Union Delegate Assembly Supports Migrant Caravan, Demands Asylum for Refugees
PSC CUNY represents more than 25,000 faculty and staff at the City University of New York. Delegate members also donated more than $600 dollars for aid to the caravan in Mexico.
Left Voice
November 13, 2018Democrats Were Not “the Lesser Evil” for the Migrant Caravan
In these midterm elections, many progressives argued that we should vote the lesser evil, or vote for "harm reduction" by casting our ballots for the Democratic Party. But, the Democratic Party has not been the lesser evil for those Central American migrants currently making their way to the US border.
Tatiana Cozzarelli
November 7, 2018A Caravan Against Borders
As Trump deploys the National Guard to the Mexican border, hundreds of Central American migrants are marching across Mexico to protest the U.S. president’s anti-immigrant assault.
Sergio Moissen
April 20, 2018The Militarization of the Border and the Tasks of Socialists
An immediate mobilization of workers and popular sectors — on both sides of the border — is necessary to demand the withdrawal of the National Guard and an end to deportations and Trump’s border wall.
Pablo Oprinari
April 13, 2018