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On Civil Rights and Operation Lone Star in South Texas: A Podcast with Roberto Lopez
Listen now (42 mins) | "It feels like you're always being watched."
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Melissa del Bosque
Reporter’s Notebook: A Glimpse into the Water Battles on the Border
“They can cut down all the flowers, but they can’t stop the spring.”
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Todd Miller
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Melissa del Bosque
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The Border Narrative Machine: A Reflection on a Lost Debate at Yale
 • Todd Miller
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Ducey’s Shipping Container Wall Comes Down, but the Damage Is Done
 • Melissa del Bosque
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Left to Die: Deterrence, Death, and Rescue in the Borderlands
 • Todd Miller
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The Floating Barrier and the Border Industrial Complex
 • Todd Miller
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The Orbán Playbook
 • Melissa del Bosque
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“People Need Representation”: A Podcast with Immigration Lawyer Margo Cowan
Listen now (57 mins) | The lawyer and longtime community organizer talks about her two-year ban from practicing immigration law, how she is responding…
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Todd Miller
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“An Occupying Force”: Florida Troopers Descend on Texas Border Communities
“There’s already a massive police presence in border communities under Operation Lone Star,” says Lopez. “People do see it as an occupying force.”
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Melissa del Bosque
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A Return on Our Investment: Border Externalization in “America’s Backyard” under the Biden Administration
Washington has intervened in Latin America several times since the Monroe Doctrine 200 years ago. U.S. border militarization across the Western…
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Todd Miller
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On Their Own: Border Humanitarians Respond to a Crisis Created by Governments
“I kept thinking, Who is going to come step up to the plate and help us here?" says Dora Rodriguez, co-founder of a migrant resource center in Sásabe…
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Melissa del Bosque
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Hidden Humanitarian Emergency: A Search and Rescue on the World’s Most Dangerous Border
Crew members on the humanitarian ship Sea Eye 4 give an on-the-ground account of rescuing 114 migrants on the European border, and their detainment by…
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Todd Miller
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A View from the Darién Gap: A podcast with Caitlyn Yates
Listen now (44 mins) | As Europe closes its doors, more asylum seekers take the deadly trek through the jungle on their way to the United States and…
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Melissa del Bosque
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Taylor Swift Builds Bridges, Not Walls
A father and daughter talk borders, what it means to be binational citizens, and their shared love for Taylor Swift and Juan Gabriel
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Oswaldo Zavala
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