U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

The Trump administration July 14 rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the pandemic.

The three panelists at a Tucson workshop on “Perspectives on Border Life” told stories from three perspectives: as someone growing up in the border towns of El Paso in Texas and Ciudad Juarez in Mexico; as a Tucson doctor serving a large refugee population; and as an author/reporter covering the fate of people crossing the Sonoran Desert into Arizona.

Immigrants facing deportation have won the occasional judicial victory, but getting a judge to hear their case poses the bigger problem in immigrants’ desperate attempt to stay in the United States.