How New Mexico Learned to Love Its Ephemeral Waters
Rollbacks to the Clean Water Act may have affected the borderlands more than any other region. States are stepping up—but there’s still more to do.
A reflection on the development of a border war machine, its imposition, its fragility, and the necessity of finding another way.
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"As a microcosm embodying the chasmic and fortified gap between haves and have-nots, the Darién Gap is as good an expanded U.S. border as any."
Support for Trump going way down in the Rio Grande Valley. And just how much are private companies making on immigration detention again?
The authors break down the billions generated by private immigration detention companies. An industry, they show, that is based on a false narrative.
The eery glow of immigration detention prisons at night. It's not border security, it's an act of war. And bring on the peacemakers.
Border “security” is an act of war. It’s time to look to the peacemakers, who just might hold the answers.
Another National Defense Area declared in the Rio Grande Valley. What will this mean? And the philosophy behind a provocative housing project in Mexicali for those who dream another world is possible.
A podcast discussion about security as U.S. health care gets cut to fund the most gargantuan border enforcement bill ever passed. How do we create a counterforce to this?
A lively conversation about how surveillance tech, created and tested in Israel & the US, targets climate refugees across the world. And how refugees have much better solutions than more of the same.
A cross-border gathering evokes a creative world of “gritty hope” in the face of new wall construction.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.