Urgent call to action: support children and families separated at the U.S. - Mexico Border. The U.S.-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership is a binational organization whose mission is to support a network of organizations that build prosperity through leadership, collaboration, and philanthropy in the U.S.-Mexico border region. In times like this, when immigrant children and families in our Southwestern border face a humanitarian crisis, BPP is seeking member network input to identify the nonprofit organizations and grant making foundations responding to the needs of children and families that are being separated due to the zero-tolerance immigration policy. We are receiving numerous inquiries for donating resources and volunteering and wish to channel these requests to you. Today we agreed to partner with Hispanics in Philanthropy and other national and international organizations to strengthen a safety net of long-term support and services for the families detained at the border. If your organization and its stakeholders are responding to this crisis at the local or regional level, please complete this short survey to provide us with information about your programs and initiatives to help immigrant families and children in the Borderlands. You are invited to share this communication and survey with your partner stakeholder and or grantees. The responses will help us direct resources to you as well as inform grantmaking organizations where support is needed the most. If you have any questions, please contact Andy Carey. Thank you.

The BPP is pleased to welcome the newest members and renewing members to the BPP community:    

• Christine Baker
• Roland Hendel

 

William (Bill) Smith, President and CEO of the Santa Fe Community Foundation, and his husky-mix rescue dog, Madrid, grace the 2018 People We Love cover. Read more about Mr. Smith and his philanthropic endeavors on page 22. "I am moved by the ability that we have, working with so many generous people, that we can make a difference here and there, with money both large and small. That moves me a lot", said Bill Smith. The Santa Fe Community Foundation is devoted to building healthy and vital communities in the region where: Racial, cultural, and economic differences do not limit access to health, education, or employment; diverse audiences enjoy the many arts and cultural heritages of our region; and all sectors of our community take responsibility for ensuring a healthy environment.

Flint Cultural Center breaks ground for new K-8 school scheduled to open by fall 2019. Mott Foundation commits up to $35 million to cover design, construction and startup costs. Local and state leaders gathered this morning on the campus of the Flint Cultural Center to break ground for a public, nonprofit charter school that will serve an estimated 650 students each school year in grades kindergarten through eight. Expected to open in time for the start of the 2019/20 school year, the Flint Cultural Center Academy will offer students a unique educational experience that features daily activities and programs at the Cultural Center institutions - Flint Institute of Arts, Flint Institute of Music, Flint Public Library, Longway Planetarium, Sloan Museum and The Whiting. The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has committed up to $35 million to cover the costs of designing, constructing and outfitting the school, as well as making related improvements to the Cultural Center campus. "The Flint Cultural Center Academy will build on the strengths of the... (read more)

Sandra Y. Nathan named interim executive director of Philanthropy Southwest. The Board of Directors of Philanthropy Southwest recently announced that they unanimously selected Sandra Y. Nathan as interim executive director. Sandra comes to Philanthropy Southwest with extensive executive leadership experience in philanthropy, government, and the nonprofit sector. Most recently, she served as senior vice president of philanthropic services and community investment at the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona in Tucson, where she was the chief strategist for the foundation's grantmaking, community investment opportunities, and diverse capital streams. Her earlier experience includes her roles as CEO of Richmond Children's Foundation, which she led through the process of conversion to a community foundation, and interim executive director of the AIDS Emergency Fund and Breast Cancer Emergency Fund in San Francisco, where she led both organizations through strategic restructurings. She serves on the board of directors of Northern California Grantmakers, The Task Force, and Bay Area United Black Fund. 

A Physician in south Texas on an unnerving encounter with an eight-year-old boy in immigration detention. The New Yorker. Alicia Hart has worked as an emergency physician in South Texas for ten years, and has seen a stream of migrant children from Guatemala and Honduras come to the U.S. fleeing gang violence. In the past, most of the kids in her care were teen-agers who had crossed the border unaccompanied and ended up in government detention facilities. Many of them were fifteen, sixteen, or seventeen years old and seemed capable of living away from their families. Most came to the emergency room for common childhood complaints, such as viral illnesses, asthma, and allergies. "Some had sad stories from their home countries, but they seemed relieved to be here," Hart said. "It seemed like most were just waiting to be sent to relatives in the U.S." But then the Trump Administration began to enforce a "zero tolerance" approach toward migrants arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border, a move that included...  (read more)

Have you crossed the U.S.-Mexico border with children? Tell us your story. The New York Times. The Trump administration's new policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border has led to a political fight that has been dominating the news. These separations began when the administration imposed a zero-tolerance policy on illegally crossing the border earlier this year. We want to hear from families who recently crossed the southwest border of the United States. If you made the journey to the United States and crossed the border with children since 2014, please tell us about the experience. We're especially interested in hearing from immigrants from Central American countries and Mexico. A reporter or editor may reach out to you. We will not publish your name or response without contacting you first.

Why migrant parents risk bringing their children to the US border. The Independent. Threat of being separated from their children is not enough to deter many migrants from attempting to move to America. When Luis Cruz left behind his wife, four of their children and the house he'd built himself, he'd heard that US officials might split him from his son, the one child he took with him. But earlier this month, the two of them set out from Guatemala anyway. The truth, he said this week, moments after they arrived at a cream-coloured migrant shelter in Tucson, Arizona, was that he would rather be apart from his child than face what they had left behind. "If they separate us, they separate us," said Cruz, 41. "But return to Guatemala? This is something my son cannot do." For years, children and parents caught crossing the nation's southern border have been released into the United States while their immigration cases were processed, the result of a hard-fought legal settlement designed to keep... (read more)

Undocumented immigrant children brought from US-Mexico border 2,000 miles to NYC. USA Today. When Hilda Mendoza learned that undocumented Central American children separated from their parents at the southern U.S. border were at a Manhattan social service agency, she felt called to action. The foster care mother went to the Cayuga Centers facility Thursday, hoping to add one of the children to the 15-month-old boy and 8-month-old girl she's already parenting. "I'm willing to give at least one child a home for a little bit of time, so they won't suffer," said Mendoza, 59, a resident of Manhattan's Upper West Side. "I would try to make it as normal as possible. I would put them in school until they can get reunited with their parents." She approached the building but left without success. As New York City police officers provided safety patrols, young children came and went from the facility. Many wore home-made masks that made it impossible to tell which had been removed from their parents by federal officials. Located across the street from an East Harlem site used to park nearly a dozen city Department of Sanitation trucks, the Cayuga facility has become one of the latest flashpoints in a...  (read more)

Rabbis, imams and ministers unite on U.S.-Mexico border in support of detained migrants. Haaretz. A group of 40 interfaith clergy take part, with one of the participants, Rabbi Jill Jacobs, promising to return with delegations of rabbis. A group of 40 interfaith clergy demonstrated solidarity with separated immigrant families on the U.S.-Mexican border on Thursday. The rabbis, imams, ministers and priests visited a respite center in McAllen, Texas, despite the torrential rain and flooded roads in the area. Many migrants arrive at this center after an initial immigration hearing, monitored with ankle bracelets. Rabbi Jill Jacobs, of T'ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights, was part of the delegation and met with single parents and their children who had arrived from various countries in Central America. "They told me they had come from extraordinarily difficult conditions, fleeing violence and just looking for a better life for their kids," Jacobs told...  (read more)

Two powerful forces collide at the U.S.-Mexico border, as immigration policy meets desperation. The Washington Post. To Carmen Palma, a Salvadoran migrant waiting at a shelter just south of the border, her 6-year-old daughter's life depends on getting asylum in the United States. She and hundreds of thousands of others have staked their lives on getting there. "In El Salvador, there is only death," Palma said. "Dead bodies are in the streets; women are violated and killed. We are ready to risk having our children separated from us so we can come to the United States." North of the border, President Trump has staked his presidency on keeping unauthorized immigrants out, making it harder to seek asylum, deploying more law enforcement across the region, trying to build a wall. His administration also tried to deter immigrants by taking away their children at the border - a policy he abandoned by executive order Wednesday in the face of ferocious political backlash. Trump's will and migrants' desperation are two powerful forces colliding in the immigrant shelters, crossings...  (read more)

'Free our children now' - On the U.S.-Mexico border, activists protest separation of immigrant families. PBS. Sunday afternoon, steps from the Ursula Border Patrol Processing Center in McAllen, Texas, activist Jess Morales Rocketto shouted to the crowd, "I want to make sure the children can hear us." In unison, the crowd followed Rocketto's lead, chanting, "Niños, no están solos" and "you are not alone." As families around the country celebrated Father's Day, immigration activists in Texas on Sunday held a march and vigil to draw attention to recent separations of immigrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. In McAllen, organizers estimated about 200 people attended a vigil to raise awareness about the Trump administration's recent policy to separate families, one that has gained bipartisan condemnation. The facility and others made headlines last week after CNN reported that a Honduran mother's child had been forcibly taken away while breastfeeding, which the Department of Homeland Security denies. Other border facilities holding immigrant children have also gained attention, including one in Brownsville along the U.S.-Mexico border, where a... (read more)

Airline offers free flights to reunite families separated at US-Mexico border. Volaris confirmed it would co-ordinate with authorities in the United States, Mexico and Central America to identify immigrants that had been affected. The airline said on its website: 'It hurts us to see these children without their parents and it is our vocation to reunite them.' Around 2,300 children have been separated from their parents since Mr. Trump started the controversial policy in mid-April. He eventually bowed to worldwide pressure on Wednesday and signed an executive order to end the separation of families. The children had been taken away while their parents were prosecuted in courts for entering the US illegally. But there are still many children who have yet to be reunited with their relatives and Volaris hopes to help with this. The Mexican Airline is in a good place to do this as it currently flies to over 65 locations across... (read more)

At Texas-Mexico border, anguish and chaos as separated families seek answers. The Globe and Mail. On the morning of his sixth birthday, Ederson Malik Eufragio-Mancia hugged his mother goodbye in an immigrant detention centre in El Paso, Tex., and disappeared into the hands of U.S. border guards. Where he has ended up − close by in the tent city hastily built to house hundreds of boys along the border in nearby Tornillo, or in a foster home thousands of kilometres away − is what worries his mother, Iris Yolany Eufragio-Mancia. "She is very worried for her son. She always says that she wants to talk to him. But I can't communicate with him," says Victor Ayala, a distant relative of Ms. Eufragia-Mancia. He has been calling authorities in a desperate search for Ederson from his home in Maryland since mother and son were arrested near the border in El Paso little more than a week ago. (read more)

 

Watch Dateline NBC: Dividing Line. To cross into the United States from Mexico, some people make their own welded ladders. But new prototypes of the border's wall are over 30 feet tall. Could this stop people from trying to climb over? Jacob Soboroff reports on life along the U.S.-Mexico border. He speaks with families seeking asylum, Border Patrol Chief Rodney Scott and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen. 

Actually, the US has a long history of separating families. CNN. Many Americans across the US are angry with President Donald Trump for his "zero tolerance" immigration policy, which has sought to deter illegal entry by detaining and separating migrant families. Critics say the policy, which was recently altered to address some concerns of separation, is not emblematic of who we are as a nation. Others say it runs counter to the America they know and love. But history shows policies like this have been implemented time and time again since the nation began. In fact, the US has a long history of separating children from their parents. Government policies forced apart the families of enslaved Africans, Native Americans and Mexican immigrants, and detained Japanese-Americans during World War II. Splitting up slave families. Enslaved parents lived with the constant fear of being separated from their children. Slave owners could split up families for any number of reasons -- including selling slaves to...  (read more)

Deadly kissing bug spreads Chagas disease throughout Texas. Don't be fooled by the kissing bug's innocent name. Its painless bite can be deadly, especially for human babies, people with immune deficiencies and puppies. And the insect lives throughout Texas. This bug actually is many insects from a family of bugs that can all carry a parasite that infects mostly people, dogs and small mammals with Chagas disease, aka the silent disease. Texas has seven species of kissing bugs. On average, they vary in diameter from the size of a penny to a quarter, with dark backs that sometime are orange- or fringed in red. They look similar to a stinkbug, but with a distinctive pointed snout. Variations of this triatomine bug are called the conenose bug, bloodsucker, Walapai tiger, and Hualapai tiger. Hispanic communities in Texas may refer to it as chinché mala, according to an online publication by Texas A&M University. Studies indicate between 50 percent and 64 percent of kissing bugs carry the deadly parasite that causes Chagas, which is considered a major... (read more)

At the U.S.-Mexico border, a water war is brewing. The head of a small federal agency you have likely never heard of quietly stepped down last month. But that agency, the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC), manages the flow of a life-or-death resource - water - across the parched 1,954-mile boundary we share with Mexico. It does so as an equal partnership between the U.S. and Mexico, and avoids the saber rattling that marks water disputes in much of the rest of the world. And despite the torrent of abuse President Trump regularly rains down on the border and our southern neighbor, the IBWC has recently brokered a new set of innovative agreements to conserve this increasingly scarce resource. Trump must now name a new U.S. IBCW commissioner. The job may be obscure, but the stakes could not be higher. No issue better demonstrates our nation's interdependence with Mexico than water. Nearly two-thirds of our common border is defined by waterways, including a 1,255-mile stretch of the...  (read more)

Work requirements for housing assistance are a disaster. But this largely unknown HUD program can actually make a difference. In the 1970s, conservatives, led by President Ronald Reagan, helped popularize the idea of the "Welfare Queen," to highlight the supposedly swank, lackadaisical lifestyles of people receiving government assistance.* Since that image of the welfare queen took hold, every administration since, Republican and Democrat, has whittled away at public assistance as we knew it. And now, the narrative of the welfare queen is making a comeback with the Trump administration's executive order requiring people who receive public assistance to work. But is requiring people who receive public assistance to work really that unreasonable? Actually, it is. Evidence analyzed by the Urban Institute shows that work requirements for people receiving public assistance are ineffective and "do more harm than good," because they tend to push people into very low paying jobs that can't pay them enough to relieve their need for assistance. In other words, work requirements keep people in a cycle of poverty, rather than...  (read more)

Criminalizing homelessness doesn't work. " Anti-vagrancy" laws are cruel, costly, and counterproductive. They make it even harder to escape homelessness. Increasingly, local laws punish Americans who are homeless. By severely restricting or even barring the ability to engage in necessary, life-sustaining activities in public, like sitting, standing, sleeping, or asking for help, even when there's no reasonable alternative, these laws are essentially persecuting homeless men, women, and children. As law professors who study how laws can make homelessness better or worse, we encourage cities, suburbs and towns to avoid punishing people who live in public and have nowhere else to go. One big reason: These "anti-vagrancy laws" are counterproductive because they make it harder to escape homelessness. Why do at least half a million Americans experience homelessness at any time? Researchers find that most people who become homeless... (read more)

In Texas border towns, illegal immigration is big business. For volunteer activists working with immigrants, those who profit from the migrants' plight are "sick." But illegal migration is big business in the border state of Texas, generating jobs for private prison operators, money lenders and storefront lawyers. Texas is at the center of the immigration crisis produced by President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" practice, which has led to the separation of more than 2,000 children from their families who attempted to enter the country illegally or while seeking asylum. Although Trump on Wednesday ordered an end to the separations, deep confusion lingers over what this will mean on the ground. But in the meantime, the money keeps rolling in for those who benefit from the migrant influx. More than two-thirds of the nearly 304,000 who entered from Mexico and were detained by border patrol agents in the fiscal year 2017 were in Texas, according to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Not surprisingly, then, Texas has the largest number of detention centers for immigrants. The Houston detention center, built in 1983, was the first privately run prison in... (read more)

The price of domestic workers' invisible labor in U.S. border towns. The land straddling Texas and Mexico makes up almost two-thirds of the 1,933 mile U.S.-Mexico border. On one end lies El Paso and the Rio Grande River; on the other is the Gulf of Mexico and border towns like Brownsville, the site of the former Walmart where nearly 1,500 migrant children are being detained, far from their parents. But behind closed doors in thousands of homes peppering those miles, are domestic workers doing the invisible labor of the region-most of them immigrant women. A new report based on interviews with 516 housecleaners, nannies, and care workers on the border, reveals high incidences of wage theft, abuse, and exploitation among these already vulnerable laborers. Their stories were collected in 2016 by volunteers from three community-based organizations-Adult and Youth United Development Association Inc (AYUDA) in San Elizario; Fuerza del Valle Workers' Center in Alamo; and Comité de Justicia Laboral in El Paso-many of whom are former or current... (read more)

American Indians fear US-Mexico border wall will destroy ancient culture. To the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Indians, the water of the Rio Grande that divides the United States and Mexico sanctifies religious rites and purifies their hunts. Indian communities living miles away use the river to send messages to fellow tribes downstream, tribal chief Jose Sierra told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "They go to the river and talk to the river, and the river sends it down," said Sierra, a barrel-chested man with long, greying hair and thick turquoise bracelets at his wrists. "They put messages in the river that come to us through the water." But now tribal leaders fear a proposed border wall as envisioned by U.S. President Donald Trump will sever access to the river, spoiling traditions and ruining ancient culture. The Ysleta and more than two dozen American Indian tribes - designated by U.S. law as sovereign nations governing themselves - live along the 1,900-mile (3,060-km) border with Mexico, with some vowing to fight the wall to... (read more)

These U.S. industries can't work without illegal immigrants. The nation's attention is currently on the southern border, where the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy has caused a crisis over separated immigrant children. Sometimes forgotten as the nation focuses attention on migrants currently trying to cross the border is that millions of undocumented immigrants continue to live in the U.S. - and most of them work. And in fact, these workers play vital roles in the U.S. economy, erecting American buildings, picking American apples and grapes, and taking care of American babies. Oh, and paying American taxes. My work as the director of the Cornell Farmworker Program involves meeting with undocumented workers in New York, and the farmers who employ them. Here's a snapshot of who they are, where they work - and why Americans should care about them. A snapshot of who they are. Pew Research Center estimates that about 11.3 million people are currently living in the U.S. without authorization, down from a peak of 12.2 million in 2007. More than half come from...  (read more)

From Cameroon to US-Mexico border: 'We saw corpses along the way'. Kombo Yannick is one of the many African asylum seekers who are braving the longer Latin America route to the US. Kombo Yannick, a 30-year-old pastor from Cameroon, waited in line with about 100 other asylum seekers at the US-Tijuana border on a chilly afternoon in late December. He and his wife had been in Tijuana for two days, and were speaking with an aid worker about where to find a bed for the night. "My only goal is to find a way to cross the border," Yannick said, rubbing his gloved hands together to keep warm. "We don't know exactly where we will go, we just have to wait," he told Al Jazeera. Yannick is one of the increasing number of African migrants and asylum seekers, as well as others from Asia and the Middle East, who have attempted to reach the US via Latin America over the last several years. He and his wife stood in a group of Cameroonian asylum seekers. Next to them, were those from Eritrea, Pakistan, and central Mexico, each speaking their native languages, their voices drowned out by the sound of...  (read more)

Despite chaos at the border, migrants still hope to find the American dream. Cities such as Tijuana remain full of asylum seekers hoping US authorities will give them a chance at a new beginning. Here are five of those stories. The rules keep changing, the deterrents keep getting harsher, but the people keep coming. Thousands of children are still being held in US detention centres or housed with strangers after being forcibly separated from their parents as part of Donald Trump's "zero-tolerance" doctrine aimed at deterring migrants and asylum seekers. The punitive tactics were first defended and then apparently softened after the US president ended his own policy, but the fate of 2,300 children who had already been seized remains unclear, and the executive order signed by Trump could lead to families being detained together indefinitely. But despite the political turmoil, cities such as Tijuana remain full of asylum seekers still... (read more)

How did the U.S.-Mexico border come to be where it is today? Curious Texas digs into history. The U.S.-Mexico border has long been a place of trade, an exchange of cultures and contention. Most recently it's garnered national attention after more than 2,000 migrant children were separated from their families at the border and placed in detention facilities throughout the U.S. The news prompted Joseph Barkell of Dallas to contact Curious Texas with a question: How did the U.S.-Mexico and Texas-Mexico border come to be where it is today? It wasn't always at the Rio Grande, so what conflicts established that as the border and what spurred the conflict? His question is part of a new edition of Curious Texas, an ongoing project from The Dallas Morning News that invites you to join in our reporting process. The idea is simple: You have questions, and our...   (read more)

A reporter searches for home and identity along the U.S.-Mexico border. In his new book, border correspondent Alfredo Corchado looks at the recent history of Mexican-American immigration with a personal twist. What does it mean to be a Mexican living in America? Alfredo Corchado explores this question in his new book, a blend of memoir and political history called "Homelands: Four Friends, Two Countries, and the Fate of the Great Mexican American Migration." It's a story that explores the last 30 years of Mexican immigration into the United States through Corchado's experience as an immigrant and a Mexico border correspondent for the Dallas Morning News. "Homelands" begins on a wintry night in Philadelphia. It's 1987, and four homesick Mexicans - one of whom is Corchado himself - find friendship over their common heritage. They thought they were the only Mexicans in... (read more)

'ICE is everywhere': Using library science to map the separation crisis. Alex Gil was IMing with his colleague Manan Ahmed when they decided they had to do something about children being separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border. Since May, the US government had taken more than 2,300 kids away from their families as a result of Attorney General Jeff Sessions' new "zero tolerance" immigration policy, which calls for criminally prosecuting all people entering the country illegally. Reports started surfacing of the ensuing chaos at the border; in one especially horrible case, a child was reportedly ripped from her mother's breast. As outrage grew, the question came up over and over again: Where were the children? Between the ad-hoc implementation of "zero tolerance" and the opaque bureaucracy of the immigration system in general, migrant advocates, journalists, and even politicians struggled to find clear answers. Gil, a father of two, knew they could be useful. As the digital scholarship librarian at Columbia University, Gil's job is to use technology to help people find information-skills he had put to use...  (read more)

Vanishing Frontiers: the forces driving Mexico and the United States together, by Andrew Selee. A painstakingly even-handed portrait of two 'intimate strangers' at a pivotal moment. Life moves fast either side of the US-Mexico border. Two days after being sworn in as US president, Donald Trump announced he would either re-negotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), or spike it. Three days later, he ordered the construction of a "big, beautiful wall", and tasked the department of homeland security with expediting the detention and deportation of unauthorised immigrants. Mr Trump's supporters cheered. After all, his improbable rise to office began with wild claims about Mexicans "bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They are rapists". But his nativist approach, which literally seeks to wall-off two countries, "is only part of the story", argues Andrew Selee in his new book. Meanwhile, the forces driving the US and Mexico together "continue at full pace". That assertion may seem more improbable by the day, especially after the Trump administration's latest "zero tolerance" policy that callously separated migrant parents from their children. At the same time, maverick leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador...  (read more)

Social Impact is seeking a Grants Finance Assistant for USAID/Mexico Civil Society Activity (CSA). CSA is a four-year project whose goal is to strengthen the capacity of civil society organizations (CSOs) working in the areas of human rights, crime and violence prevention, and legal reform. The primary responsibility of the Grants Finance Assistant is to provide support to the finance and grants team in managing CSA's grants and contributing to the smooth running of the grants administration. Responsibilities include but are not limited to reviewing financial reporting and documentation from grantees, maintaining communication with grantees to ensure fluid coordination of processes, and providing accurate financial data and analysis on the grants portfolio. This position will report to the Grants Finance Manager. Qualifications: Degree in Finance, Economics, or a related field, 3-4 years of donor-related international development grant, finance, and/or compliance experience, Knowledge of USAID grant management rules and regulations... (read more)

If you want to make more money in Arizona, major in engineering or computer science. Engineering and computer science graduates from Arizona's public universities bring in the more money than other graduates, and more than double their counterparts who majored in gender studies or communications. That's according to a new report from the Arizona Board of Regents that details the earning power of the state's public university graduates by major. The report breaks down earnings of 2012 graduates compared to the amount of debt they incurred to get their degrees. The graduates largely took on similar amounts of debt, but their earnings varied widely depending on their field of study. And all graduates, regardless of majors, brought in more money per month than people with high school diplomas and no college, even when deducting monthly loan payments, the report found. The median annual salary among the 9,406 graduates five years after graduation was $49,130. The annual median salary for... (read more)

HBO's 'VICE' features segment on Mexico/NM border-crossing pupils. Every day, about 850 students from Puerto Palomas, make the hour-long journey to attend school in New Mexico. With his passport in tow, 12-year-old Eulises is one of them. The American-born student lives with his family in Puerto Palomas and makes the trek for the educational opportunity. Eulises is one focus on the upcoming episode on HBO's VICE series. The series covers an array of topics including the heated immigration debate. The episode "Separated by Birth" airs at 5:30 p.m. Friday, June 22. It repeats throughout the weekend until Thursday, June 28, on HBO. In the episode, VICE correspondent Krishna Andavolu, travels to the New Mexico/Mexico border where he interviews American-born children who live in Mexico but go to public school in the U.S .because their parents are not citizens. Andavolu spent about four days in Puerto Palomas and Deming interviewing students and parents, as well as Deming Public Schools Superintendent Arsenio Romero. Romero tells Anadvolu that he takes heat every legislative session for... (read more)