The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: May 1
Happy May Day! An audio deep dive into the National Defense Areas and a human rights archeologist speaks on the politics of haunting and border deaths.
A DACA recipient in South Texas says life under the Trump mass deportation dragnet is "pure trauma." And a former immigration judge, fired in November, talks about the future of immigration courts.
Morale is low among judges, says Johnson, as the Trump administration ignores due process and the immigration case backlog grows.
Living in Trump's Deportation America right now feels like "pure trauma" says a DACA recipient in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.
A photographer documents extreme drought in Chihuahua and a Tucson poet talks apocalypse, and finding inspiration from Interstate 10 for her new book. Plus, more news from across the border region.
A ferocious drought has struck Chihuahua, leaving its most important river, the Río Conchos, almost dry, and its people in dire straits.
A Q&A with author Raquel Gutiérrez on art, the apocalypse, Interstate 10, and their new poetry book, Southwest Reconstruction.
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Dive into the delusions of detention and deportation under the Trump administration. The Florence Project’s legal director offers a new way to understand and challenge them.
Illegal boat strikes are part of Trump's plan to militarize domestic policy, and a new exhibition in Tucson commemorates community resistance to the borderlands’ military-industrial complex
A new exhibition in Tucson commemorates community resistance to the borderlands’ military-industrial complex.
"The border has always been a laboratory for authoritarian policies. Now they're being unleashed into the interior of the country," he says.
Those recently deported say overcrowding in detention, lack of oversight and misinformation are creating deadly conditions. Plus, stories from the frontline of climate displacement in Guatemala.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.