Laura Tillman

Laura Tillman is a journalist and the author of The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City, which was published by Scribner in 2016. She began her career at The Brownsville Herald and has written for The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The Nation and Pacific Standard/, among others. She lives in Mexico City where she is at work on her next book.

Inside the Slow-Motion Disaster on the Southern Border

Testimony from the Rio Grande Valley

July 20, 2018 By Laura Tillman

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Scenes from the Southern Border: Asylum-Seekers, Border Guards, Activists and More

"We’re a nation of laws, but the laws should be enforced with heart."

July 17, 2018 By Laura Tillman

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