ILD Blog

It’s become harder to cross the border from Mexico into the U.S., more expensive and more dangerous. According to a recent study, however, there are more powerful factors keeping Mexicans at home. Douglas Massey, co-director of the Mexican Migration Project at Princeton University, points to changes within Mexico itself. Education is easier, economic prospects are…

Last May a group of people calling themselves “intactivists” succeeded in having their petition qualify for the November ballot in California. They believe that circumcision is genital mutilation and seek to abolish it and make it illegal. Religious groups are predictably taking the case to court. Meanwhile in Africa there are groups trying to talk…

A 13 year-old girl in the psychiatric unit of a Texas hospital was scheduled to be released after a month long stay. She was due to be picked up by Children Protective Services (CPS) and taken home, but wasn’t. Her adoptive mother no longer wanted her unless she could be assured that the girl had…