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.
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The Tower and the Tarantula: Searching for a New Way Forward 24 Years after 9/11
A reflection on the development of a border war machine, its imposition, its fragility, and the necessity of finding another way.
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: September 5
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A Reporter’s Journey through the Darién Gap: A Q&A with Author Belén Fernández
"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."
Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 29
Support for Trump going way down in the Rio Grande Valley. And just how much are private companies making on immigration detention again?
Immigration Detention Inc.: A Podcast with Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon
The authors break down the billions generated by private immigration detention companies. An industry, they show, that is based on a false narrative.
Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 22
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.
Peacemaking in the Borderlands: A Reflection on the Farce of “Border Security”
Border “security” is an act of war. It’s time to look to the peacemakers, who just might hold the answers.
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 8
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.
What Does Security Really Mean? Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller Analyze the First Seven Months of Trump
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?
Climate, Tech, Borders, and Gaza: A Podcast with Amali Tower
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.
Murmuration: A Conversation with Kate Scott about Resistance at the Border
A cross-border gathering evokes a creative world of “gritty hope” in the face of new wall construction.