The Border Chronicle launches its new poetry series today, resistance halts the border wall in Lochiel and Big Bend for now, and the Maasai face climate change, plus immigration policy is maternal health policy.
Elma Correa’s award-winning Donde termina el verano follows two girls from the working-class outskirts of Mexicali whose friendship, guilt and memories are shaped by a childhood disappearance and the borderlands around them.
A new book tells the scandal-ridden tale of Sonora’s toad-smoking neo-shaman.
In February, the country broke an ominous record: over 68,000 people were being held in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more than ever before.
A road trip through Baja California reveals how free trade, migration, and border policy have reshaped Tijuana's landscape, and why the uncertain future of the USMCA invites new questions about what comes next.
As housing projects, mines, and border wall construction accelerate habitat loss, photographer Eliseu Cavalcante documents the Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society’s efforts to preserve the desert’s iconic plants.
Like environmental regulations, cultural-and historic-preservation laws are being systematically waived for wall construction—and border communities are paying the price.
"The history of migration through El Paso is one that’s been forgotten and overlooked, even though these workers—and not just workers but intellectuals, activists, and poets—helped shape the American Southwest as we know it today."
“For a long time, a big proportion of the American public said that border security was their most important issue. People are starting to realize what that means in terms of the violence entailed.”
