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The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 15
Dr. Melody Glenn on the false narrative about Fentanyl, and a bipartisan congress built the largest immigrant detention system in the world. Advocate…
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Melissa del Bosque
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Caroline Tracey
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Melody Glenn
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The Borderlands Are Not Flooded with Fentanyl: A Q&A with Dr. Melody Glenn, author of Mother of Methadone
“The fact that this is being used as justification to militarize the border has been shocking for me to watch."
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Caroline Tracey
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How ICE Detention Was Built
Private corporations and the Trump administration will make the world's largest immigrant detention system even deadlier. But it can be stopped, says…
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Melissa del Bosque
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26:17
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 8
Another National Defense Area declared in the Rio Grande Valley. What will this mean? And the philosophy behind a provocative housing project in…
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Todd Miller
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Pablo De La Rosa
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The Mexicali Experimental Project: A Contemplative, Human-Scale Approach to Housing on the Border
In the 1970s, the Mexican state worked with an avant-garde architect to build unique homes for workers in Mexicali. Could this forgotten experiment hold…
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Caroline Tracey
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Trump Authorizes Military to Take Over Federal Land at the U.S.-Mexico Border
 • Pablo De La Rosa and Melissa del Bosque
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Acclaimed Latino Author and Filmmaker Detained and Accused: Racial Profiling on the U.S.-Mexico Border
 • Todd Miller
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A Walk on the Border the Day after the National Emergency Declaration
 • Todd Miller
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Historic Levels of Rain Leave the Texas-Mexico Border in Ruins, with Officials Slow to Respond
 • Pablo De La Rosa
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‘They Want to Have a Police State’: Trump’s Rio Grande Military Zone
With Strykers and soldiers the Trump administration implemented its third National Defense Area in the Rio Grande Valley in June, alarming local groups.
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Pablo De La Rosa
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The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 1
What does security actually mean as billions are funneled into walls and armed agents? And a historian explains the complicated story behind the new…
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Melissa del Bosque
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Caroline Tracey
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What Does Security Really Mean? Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller Analyze the First Seven Months of Trump
A podcast discussion about security as U.S. health care gets cut to fund the most gargantuan border enforcement bill ever passed. How do we create a…
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Melissa del Bosque
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Todd Miller
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