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The Family Behind the Chain-Link Fence
My neighbor Ani came outside holding a hen. I could see her, from the corner of my eye, pacing back and forth. I focused hard on the eclectic shuffle of songs in my earbuds, getting lost in the...
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This Is Life in ICE Detention
Luis was arrested during an ICE raid in Arkansas. He was working as a roofer, had no criminal record, and was charged with no crime. Agents confiscated his wallet, ID, and phone, then sent him from a...
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Preacher, Immigrant Defender, World War II-Era Rebel
This winter, ICE officials detained more than 100 immigrant workers in the Central Coast region of California, a disproportionate number of whom lived and worked in the farming community of Santa...
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What Happens If ICE Kidnaps My Dad?
I knocked on the door at my parents’ home. My dad peeked out the window. Seeing it was me, he apologized. “Sorry, pero tengo que verificar quién es porque ya sabes cómo están las cosas.” (Sorry, but I...
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Watching Over My Favorite Tamalera
During a recent meal, my mom told me she was considering self-deporting. “Ma, no puedes decir cosas así, ya te he dicho tus derechos,” I said. (You can’t think like that. You know your rights.) She...
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Employers, Speak Up for Immigrant Workers
This month’s coast-to-coast protests against immigration raids seem to display a country more divided than ever over the place of immigrants in American life. Yet recent history shows one group that,...
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To Solve America’s Immigration Woes, We Need to Think, Act, and Work Locally
The Zócalo event “Could Immigration Unite Americans?” comes at a time when much of the world has actually come together in support of one group of immigrants. But, as New York Times national...
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The Exiled Musicians Who Escaped Fascism for La La Land
[trinity_audio “male”]Generations ago, in the parenthesis of years between Hitler’s 1933 rise to power and the end of World War II, a deluge of European artists and intellectuals came to the U.S.,...
View ArticleHéctor Tobar Wins the 2024 Zócalo Book Prize
Héctor Tobar is the winner of the 2024 Zócalo Public Square Book Prize for Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino.” Zócalo has awarded the $10,000 prize yearly...
View ArticleThree Generations, Two Immigrations
The first time I immigrated, 34 years ago, I was a toddler brought to the United States by my parents from our native El Salvador. A year ago, I immigrated again, becoming a Salvadoran American living...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Venezuelan Diasporas
American media covers only two types of the 7 million-plus immigrants who have left Venezuela in the past decade. The first consists of the refugees and asylum seekers who walked across the border...
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A New Border Wall Draws from an Old American Playbook
At long last, we reached the wall. Its glinting metal and sharp wire stood in stark contrast to the greens and golds of the Polish forest in autumn. And its towering presence transported me to another...
View ArticleOur Favorite Public Programs of 2022
This year on the Zócalo stage, panelists dared us to reimagine home. Showed us that we can build a better America. Reminded us that incarceration is big business. Demonstrated what dissent can look...
View ArticleThe 2023 Zócalo Book Prize Honors Explorations of Community
Since 2011, Zócalo Public Square’s annual book prize has recognized the U.S.-published nonfiction book that best enhances our understanding of community and the forces that strengthen or undermine...
View ArticleThe 2023 Zócalo Poetry Prize Celebrates Poems of Place
Since 2012, the Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize has recognized the U.S. writer of a poem that best evokes a connection to place. Zócalo will begin accepting submissions for our 2023 competition on...
View ArticleWhy Migrant Butterflies Are Dying
In July, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) added the monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus plexippus, to its Red List of Threatened Species, a recognition that the insect’s...
View ArticleHow Latin America Built L.A.
Los Angeles is just the second U.S. city to host the Summit of the Americas, which brings together political leaders, civil society organizations, and business executives from North, South, and Central...
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Looking Deportation in the Face
Completing the mural. Photo by Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana. The border between Playas de Tijuana and San Diego. Photo by Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana. Painting the mural. Photo by Lizbeth De La Cruz...
View ArticleThe Exiled Musicians Who Escaped Fascism for La La Land
Generations ago, in the parenthesis of years between Hitler’s 1933 rise to power and the end of World War II, a deluge of European artists and intellectuals came to the U.S., seeking refuge from the...
View ArticleTo Solve America’s Immigration Woes, We Need to Think, Act, and Work Locally
The Zócalo event “Could Immigration Unite Americans?” comes at a time when much of the world has actually come together in support of one group of immigrants. But, as New York Times national...
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