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Crossing the Line: How Women Activists Expose America's Immigration Cruelty

Sarah Towle centers the "Angry Tías" of the Rio Grande Valley, revealing how radical care becomes the ultimate resistance against systemic cruelty.

Pablo Manríquez
Dec 07, 2025
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Cross-posted by Migrant Insider
"Crossing the Line, second edition, gets its first review! And it is stellar! With HUGE gratitude to Pablo Manríquez of @Migrant Insider, one of my favorite journalists, particularly for his clear-eyed truth-telling on the immigration issue. Please join me in reading and sharing his generous appraisal of the book's mission and intention. And be sure to subscribe to his Substack! I had many mentors and guides on this journey of awakening. I am so grateful to Pablo for seeing them, and me, in this incredible examination of Crossing the Line. And just in time for the holidays, too!"
- Sarah Towle

BOOK REVIEW — In Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands, Sarah Towle accomplishes something rare in immigration journalism: she transforms policy abstractions into human truth while el…


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