The Adulation of the Gun: How Border Militarization Fuels America's Gun Obsession
From Uvalde, Texas, to Portland, Oregon, Border Patrol's BORTAC is part of a growing homeland security army.
The CAFTA Template: Understanding Central American Migration in a Time of Dispossession, Repression, and Environmental Crisis
Expert Jorge Cuellar discusses how countries remain exploited "tributary societies to the US," while that "sacred policy—the Central American Free Trade Agreement—has remained untouched."
Reporter’s Notebook: Entering the Season of Death at the Border
A deadly Border Patrol shooting, a binational group rejuvenating the desert, and the wall as a "modern-day cross," plus other observations and photos from a trip to the Douglas borderlands
Climate Disaster, Displacement, and Divides: A Podcast with Amali Tower
“Now more than three times as many people are displaced by climate disasters and extreme weather events than conflict or violence.”
The Border-Industrial Complex in the Biden Era
Robotic Dogs and Autonomous Surveillance Towers Are the New Wall
An Open Letter to the Biden Administration: It’s Time to Lean In to the “Open Borders” Accusations
C’mon President Biden, let’s stare down the real crisis on the border, the crisis of imagination. It is possible to do things another way.
“Lines of Life and Death”: A Podcast with Geographer Joseph Nevins on Global Apartheid and the Right to the World
Lauded border scholar Joseph Nevins dissects the global border apparatus, shows its parallels with South African apartheid, and calls for both freedom of movement and the right to stay home
“The American Homeland Is the Planet”: How the U.S. Exports Its Border to Ukraine
Since 9/11 the United States has expanded its southwestern border enforcement abroad. Yes, even to Ukraine.
Reporter's Notebook: This Year's Border Security Expo in San Antonio Was the Biggest Ever: “Why Would You Even Want a Solution?”
Robo-dogs, ghost drones, Palmer Luckey, and protestors outside, plus other observations from my week at the Border Security Expo in Texas
Cruelty as Border Policy: The Biden Administration Keeps in Place CBP’s “Consequence Delivery System”
Biden is maintaining long-standing deterrence policies that systematically create suffering for migrant families, according to new CBP documents obtained by the National Immigrant Justice Center
On the Border Watch List: A Podcast Interview with Erika Pinheiro on the Chilling Impact of Surveillance
Al Otro Lado’s Tijuana-based litigation and policy director examines the border, past, present, and future, through the lens of the invasive and futuristic surveillance apparatus that is already here.
The Everyday Mistreatment of Transfronterizo Commuters on the Mexico-U.S. Border: A Q&A with Borderlands Scholar Estefanía Castañeda Pérez
Crossing the border everyday brings the normalization of surveillance and interrogation, but what happens if you refuse to comply with the CBP facial recognition camera?