Breaking News: (Video) Department of Homeland Security installs first segment of floating border barrier on the Rio Grande
DHS has begun installing its massive floating buoy barrier which could include more than 500 miles.
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“Mexico Is the Wall”: Deterrence in the Time of Elections
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.
We Made It to 1,000 Paid Subscribers, Thanks to You!
Please keep them coming! We’re halfway to our goal of becoming sustainable.
The Border as a Many-Headed Hydra: A Q&A with Sarah Towle
“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.
A Live Podcast from Nogales with Educators Celia Concannon and Gustavo Lozano
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.
The Expanding Immigrant Detention Nexus: A Podcast with Jesse Franzblau
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.
We Were So Close! And Then Our Paid Subscriptions Took a Nosedive
Also guilt, fishy CBP numbers, and supporting independent journalism … Read on for The Border Chronicle’s first-ever survey results!
30 Years of Operation Gatekeeper: A Q&A with Joseph Nevins
Today's border has "surveillance towers littering the landscape, militarized personnel [everywhere], miles of formidable walls. Gatekeeper played a huge role in bringing about this dystopian reality."
The Highest Law in the Land: Journalist Jessica Pishko on Right-wing Sheriffs and Democracy
Pishko talks about her new book on sheriffs, far-right extremism, and what it means for our democracy and the upcoming election.
Climate Change and the Reality Behind False Claims about ‘Criminal Migrants’
In this interview reprinted with permission from Yale Climate Connections, The Border Chronicle's Todd Miller talks about the role climate change plays in migration to the U.S.-Mexico border.
Militarizing the Sky: A Q&A with Laiken Jordahl
The Center for Biological Diversity’s conservation advocate talks about a military attempt to increase supersonic flights and trainings in the borderlands and how the public still has time to comment.
Florida Governor’s Controversial “Migrant Relocation” Program Targets Arizona
Border nonprofits say contractor, My Bright Horizon, left brochures, but didn’t say it was part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s anti-immigrant "relocation" initiative.
The Everywhere Border: Trying to Understand the 9/11 Legacy
September 11 brought heavy-handed border enforcement into a new, ever more dystopian era. It is not only a legacy, but has also become a 21st-century recipe for security.