Hope Border Institute

📰 ‘Providing certainty for Dreamers is both a moral imperative and a practical investment in communal wellbeing — and it should be the starting point for a broader, humane overhaul of an immigration system that must do better by people, our border communities and the nation alike.’

- Dylan Corbett (Hope Border Institute) & Melissa Lopez (Estrella del Paso) for El Paso Matters on the anniversary of DACA and the need for continued protections

Opinion: Certainty for Dreamers strengthens us all On the 14th anniversary of DACA, two El Paso leaders say that unprecedented renewal delays are disrupting families, employers and institutions that rely on Dreamers across El Paso and the nation.

Meet our interns!

Kenza and Matt are students at Georgetown University Masters in International Migration and Refugees and will be doing their summer practicum here at the Hope Border Institute.

Kenza and Matt will be supporting our research & policy work, looking at the impacts of mass deportations here in our local El Paso community.

Welcome, Kenza and Matt, to HOPE and to El Paso!

Family separation returns. We’ve seen this before — but the resistance reveals something deeper. Read more in this week’s .

The DHS shutdown is over, but the reconciliation bills means that the fight is not over — it’s only beginning. We discuss this and the need for real reform in this week’s .