The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: June 5
The Border Chronicle hangs out with legendary journalist Amy Goodman, plus big tech and the "everywhere border" and a podcast about Latin American art and the borderlands and more!
As Right-Wing Media and Fearmongering Ramps Up, a Border Filmmaker Challenges the Dis-content Creators
"When you allow the right to asylum to be chipped away, you’re not just doing it to other people. You’re doing it to yourself, too."
Mark Lamb’s campaign for U.S. Senate is light on substance but heavy on gun fetishization and border fearmongering.
Armed civilians who believe that undocumented migrants are 'invaders' could be enforcing the Texas immigration proposal, says Libal, a consultant for Human Rights Watch.
Many different countries are working with the United States to wall off access to asylum, says Limón Garza. "This means that vulnerable people have far fewer places to turn to."
No country targets its journalists for execution quite like Mexico
Former protestors celebrate the re-opening of the stretch of border, and evaluate the environmental damage.
The U.S. government is doubling down on surveillance, but residents have little input or idea of how it impacts their privacy. Maass talks about EFF's new project to map the "virtual wall."
As 30-foot walls go up, U.S. residents lose another important symbol of binational solidarity between the two countries.
Felicia Rangel-Samponaro and Victor Cavazos founded The Sidewalk School, then a migrant shelter in Mexico. Now they also provide tech-support for a flawed U.S. immigration app.
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