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A Walk on the Border the Day after the National Emergency Declaration
A meditative walk along the border wall in Nogales seeks a new way forward the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump.
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Todd Miller
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A New Era of Border Theater
It only took 30 years and the help of the Democratic Party to get here.
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Melissa del Bosque
19
Death and New Life at the Santa Cruz River
An artist and a group of scientists on grieving and restoring Arizona-Sonora’s shared waterway. "It’s enormously inspiring.”
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Caroline Tracey
4
Border Patrol Could Become Trump's Secret Police: A Q&A With Former Agent Jenn Budd
Budd, a former Border Patrol agent, and now one of the agency's fiercest critics says the rogue agency wants even more power under Trump.
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Melissa del Bosque
5
What’s Gonna Happen on the Border in 2025? A Podcast with Erika Pinheiro
If you want to know about what’s to come on the border—what to expect, how it got to this point, and ways to fight back—put everything down right now…
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Todd Miller
6
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The Border Chronicle Forecast for 2025
A booming border chaos economy. Billionaires and algorithms support autocracy. The criminalization of immigration, and worsening water woes. But also…
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Melissa del Bosque
19

December 2024

“Está Cabrón”: An End-of-Year Reflection on a World at the Crossroads
In this reflection and Chihuahua travelogue, I converse with Mexican fishers and farmers about drought, climate change, the incoming U.S. president, the…
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Todd Miller
25
Facing Trump 2.0: The Immigrant Rights Movement Needs to Step Up Its Game
Mutual aid isn’t enough, says Zachary Mueller, political director for the nonprofit America’s Voice. We need a new coalition that studies the Right’s…
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Melissa del Bosque
6
Migrant Workers as an Impediment to Mass Deportation: A Q&A with David Bacon
The prolific author and photographer describes powerful instances of worker resistance and how undocumented labor will be a serious thorn in Trump’s…
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Todd Miller
5
Reporter's Notebook: Melissa Talks About a New Binational Investigation on Border Militarization and Drownings in the Rio Grande
A special podcast with Lighthouse Reports about a year-long collaboration with The Washington Post and El Universal in Mexico published this week.
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Melissa del Bosque
2
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'Tis the Season for Solidarity
Support Local Border Journalism and Artisans from Sasabe, Sonora.
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Melissa del Bosque
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Todd Miller
From Border Theater to a Real War on Immigrants?
Republican-led states have deployed their police agencies to the border, heeding Texas governor Greg Abbott’s call to arms. With Trump’s…
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Gabb Schivone
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