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Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 29
Support for Trump going way down in the Rio Grande Valley. And just how much are private companies making on immigration detention again?
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Todd Miller
, 
Pablo De La Rosa
, and 
The Border Chronicle
17:35
Immigration Detention Inc.: A Podcast with Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon
The authors break down the billions generated by private immigration detention companies. An industry, they show, that is based on a false narrative.
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Todd Miller
6
50:50
Voters’ Regret: Support for Trump Plunges in South Texas
“People are starting to have a realization that what they were promised isn’t going to come to fruition and they were lied to ..."
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Pablo De La Rosa
11
Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 22
The eery glow of immigration detention prisons at night. It's not border security, it's an act of war. And bring on the peacemakers.
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Todd Miller
, 
Melissa del Bosque
, and 
The Border Chronicle
2
25:15
Peacemaking in the Borderlands: A Reflection on the Farce of “Border Security”
Border “security” is an act of war. It’s time to look to the peacemakers, who just might hold the answers.
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Todd Miller
9
Night Exposures
Photographer Marni Shindelman’s series Restore the Night Sky illuminates America’s hidden detention centers from an unexpected angle.
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Caroline Tracey
3
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
, 
Caroline Tracey
, 
Melody Glenn
, and 
The Border Chronicle
1
19:14
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
7
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
2
54:40
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
 and 
Pablo De La Rosa
3
26:17
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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