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.
Take a stroll down False Claim Lane with us today. It will certainly come in handy for all the border and immigration debates you will hear in the next few months
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If you want to learn about border technology, listen to this conversation about a new book on surviving migration in the age of artificial intelligence.
Photos and observations on the controversy, bloated border budgets, and surveillance technology as the Border Patrol celebrates its centennial
John Washington’s new book attempts to break open the political discourse on borders, showing us that another world is possible.
Photos and observations from a trip to southern Texas: from boat patrols to crowd-sourced walls, from aerostats and SpaceX to reservoirs with little water.
A quest to figure out what is happening with the razor wire in Nogales. Part of it has been removed. But is this permanent? And what does this have to do with new technology? Read on!
The La Verdad Juárez journalist and Migration Tech Monitor fellow explains how “CBP One is a barrier to access asylum” after a year of reporting from the Mexican side.
The codirector and star of the short documentary Shura discuss what happens when the spirit of kindness—in this case in the form of an 82-year-old woman from Illinois—meets the U.S.-Mexico border.
What did I learn (indirectly) from John Bolton? That listening to people across borders is the key to winning debates.
How the European Union is funding the International Organization for Migration to enact brutal border operations in the Balkans.
A report from the banks of the Rio Grande during the “Bridging Borders and Leveraging Water for Peace” World Water Week 24 conference in El Paso/Juárez.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.