The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: February 27
A protest against the buoy barrier in the RGV, a tense situation with military at the end of the wall in Arizona, and deported vets seek justice.
A protest against the buoy barrier in the RGV, a tense situation with military at the end of the wall in Arizona, and deported vets seek justice.
Walking from a blasted mountain top--a planned site for new border wall construction--to a makeshift military camp along the border in a remote part of southern Arizona led to a tense yet revelatory moment.
"I understand what people are going through because I lived it myself."
Cofounder, editorial director. Longtime border journalist and author of Bloodlines.
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Cofounder, Editor-in-chief. Based in Tucson, Arizona. Author of Border Patrol Nation, Storming the Wall, Empire of Borders, and Build Bridges Not Walls.
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Reporter and editor for Arts & Culture and Environment. Also, author of Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History (W.W. Norton 2026).
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Reports from the Texas-Mexico border. Print and radio journalist with bylines in NPR, Texas Public Radio, MSNBC, The Border Chronicle, The Texas Standard, Lighthouse Reports and more.
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Border Chronicle audio and video editor. Also award-winning investigative journalist reporting on immigration enforcement, U.S. involvement in Latin America, and human rights.
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Text editor. Pablo is a longtime editor, having worked with many authors and for several publications. He currently oversees copyediting for The Border Chronicle and American Ethnologist.
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