For years, Flores has served as an immigration policy advisor to Democrats at the national level, including President Biden. She talks about what went wrong, and what Democrats should be doing now.
Cofounder, Editor-in-chief. Based in Tucson, Arizona. Author of Border Patrol Nation, Storming the Wall, Empire of Borders, and Build Bridges Not Walls.
Trump's first run "was all about building the border wall and contriving a fictional ‘bad hombre’ bogeyman to fear and loathe." This time the "tactical dehumanization" has an extra "rabid vigor."
On Election Day, I take a meditative and ultimately inspiring walk along the border wall on the Mexican side. And discover why it is more important than ever to listen to people of the borderlands.
In this on-the-ground letter from the border, we explore how between Arizona and Sonora the razor tech barrier is--and likely will continue to be--a monument to many presidents and policies.
Melissa and Todd on the last time Trump deployed active military to the border; the immigration policy of cansancio in Mexico; and Harris and the Dems’ tough talk on asylum.
Earlier this month the Mexican military killed six migrants in Chiapas. Behind this is the militarization of Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala, done with support and pressure from the U.S.
“The real crisis at the U.S. southern border is not the people coming across, but the hardening of the human heart,” says the author of CROSSING THE LINE.
The Border Chronicle helps kick off an exciting new oral history project called "The Border Before" led by the nonprofit Voices from the Border, and other local border organizations.
Immigrant detention has doubled during Biden, which now wants to expand it more. But not if rights groups can help it, explains the senior policy analyst for the National Immigrant Justice Center.
