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?

This Week in The Border Chronicle:

More News from the Border:

Tarantula crawls in front of an Elbit Systems integrated fixed tower in the Southern Arizona borderlands near Nogales. (Photo by Todd Miller)

ICE Is Using Taylor Swift’s Loophole To Hide Deportation Flights The Lever

DHS rap video introduces new ICE vehicles featuring Trump’s name in gold RawStory

Breaking News – Border Wall Construction to Begin in September, County Officials Say Patagonia Regional Times

Trump administration bans drones in Nogales area until February Nogales International

Peruvian in Fort Bliss ICE detention says ‘American nightmare’ began after selling ceviche in Miami Beach El Paso Matters

Mystery surrounds $1.2B Army contract to build detention tent camp Associated Press

Environmental Laws Waived to Build Border Wall in Texas Wildlife Refuge Inside Climate News

Authors

Reports from the Texas-Mexico border for The Border Chronicle. Print and radio journalist with bylines in NPR, Texas Public Radio, MSNBC, The Texas Standard, Lighthouse Reports and more.

Todd Miller is Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of The Border Chronicle. He is the author of four books that examine border militarization and its externalization, surveillance technology and industry, climate change, and the search for alternatives. His books include Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders (City Lights, 2021) Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (Verso, 2019),  Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (City Lights, 2017), and Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security (City Lights, 2014).

Todd’s forthcoming book is a deep examination of water as a border issue in an age of climate-induced heat waves and drought. It will be published by Seven Stories Press in 2027.

Besides The Border Chronicle, articles by Todd have appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, Guernica, TomDispatch, and Al Jazeera English, among other places. He has also authored and co-authored reports on border surveillance, the border industrial complex, and climate change for the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute, where he is a fellow.

Todd’s book Storming the Wall received the Izzy Award in 2018 for “path-breaking and in-depth reporting.” He also received first place in “Community immigration reporting” by the Arizona Press Club in 2013. Todd has a bachelor’s degree in Latin American Studies and Journalism from Prescott College, where he is also an adjunct professor.

In his spare time, Todd likes to travel, read, philosophize, and hang out with his two kids—whether it be going to a dance recital or being a basketball coach.