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"The 'Great Replacement' isn't new. It’s just that it's been packaged for the digital age in a very effective way."

Melissa del Bosque

May 17

Climate Disaster, Displacement, and Divides: A Podcast with Amali Tower Listen now (35 min) | “Now more than three times as many people are displaced by climate disasters and extreme weather events than conflict or violence.”

May 12

A deadly Border Patrol shooting, a binational group rejuvenating the desert, and the wall as a "modern-day cross," plus other observations and photos from a trip to the Douglas borderlands

May 19

"I feel very different about this work than anything I’ve done before. It’s like an open wound."

Melissa del Bosque

May 10

Robotic Dogs and Autonomous Surveillance Towers Are the New Wall

May 5

In Arizona and Texas, border residents are noticing more and more personal belongings left behind, including confidential documents, along the U.S. side…

Melissa del Bosque

May 3

C’mon President Biden, let’s stare down the real crisis on the border, the crisis of imagination. It is possible to do things another way.

Apr 28

Reporter's Notebook: A Man and his Rake Against Anti-Immigrant Hate in Yuma, Arizona Listen now (5 min) | The Border Chronicle visits with Fernando “Fernie” Quiroz, director of the AZ-CA Humanitarian Coalition that provides aid to asylum…

Melissa del Bosque

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Apr 26

Open Thread: What’s the Deal With Title 42?What’s going on with Title 42? We want to hear your perspective and we have invited people who have a lot of expertise, experience, and insight …

Apr 21

Acts of Resistance and Faith: An Interview with the Rev. John Fife on Founding the Sanctuary Movement, and the Ongoing Struggle for Human Rights in the Borderlands Listen now (49 min) | "Climate change will be the first time we realize that nation states can't solve this problem by themselves."

Melissa del Bosque

Apr 19

“Lines of Life and Death”: A Podcast with Geographer Joseph Nevins on Global Apartheid and the Right to the World Listen now (29 min) | Lauded border scholar Joseph Nevins dissects the global border apparatus, shows its parallels with South African apartheid, and…

Apr 14

With so much misinformation circulating about border and immigration policies, it doesn’t help to have Border Patrol union leaders stoking fear and…

Melissa del Bosque

Apr 12

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