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Challenging Smuggling Myths on the U.S. Mexico Border: A Podcast with Anthropologist Gabriella Sanchez
“The focus on organized crime prevents us from seeing how enforcement and inequality disproportionately targets the poor.”
After Years of Tribal Resistance, DHS Finishes its “Virtual Wall” on the Tohono O’odham Nation
An all-day quest led me to the final of the 10 towers built on native land. "You never know when you’re being watched,” said a resident.
Reporter’s Notebook: Arivaca’s Mundane Killing Field
A reportage about summer in the rural Arizona borderlands through the eyes of hawks, humanitarians, migrants, and migra.
A New Border Vision: A Q&A with Vicki Gaubeca of the Southern Border Communities Coalition
We discuss Border Patrol shadow units, the need to revitalize not militarize, and how borderlands communities could thrive if seen as the “vibrant, multilingual, and multicultural” places they are.
The Most Dangerous Police Force: A Podcast with Geographer Reece Jones about His New Book on the Border Patrol
Jones discusses why the Border Patrol can racially profile people, why it can operate in a 100-mile zone from all U.S. borders, and how it “can look a lot like an authoritarian militia force."
The Officer of the Future: Facial Recognition and the Border-Industrial Complex
“The face that God gave you the day you were born will be your passport.”
Reporter’s Notebook: The Border Creates Tragedy by Design
The border, its dread and its promise: a photo essay from Nogales, Sonora, on the day after the tragedy in San Antonio.
Cementing a State of Exception in the Borderlands: How a Supreme Court Ruling Impacts the Tohono O’odham Nation
In the “Constitution-mangled zone” in the borderlands, Tohono O’odham say Supreme Court ruling fortifies an occupation.
The Border Chronicle is Feeling the Love
It's been an encouraging week with 79 new paid subscribers! Keep 'em coming and we thank you!
Border Hacker: A Podcast with Levi Vonk
A rare in-depth look inside a migrant caravan and Mexico’s amped-up border enforcement, along with scathing revelations about humanitarian networks on the Mexican migrant trail
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