A New Border Vision: A Q&A with Vicki Gaubeca of the Southern Border Communities Coalition

We discuss Border Patrol shadow units, the need to revitalize not militarize, and how borderlands communities could thrive if seen as the “vibrant, multilingual, and multicultural” places they are.

Sometimes discussions on the border seem stuck in a rut. The same ideas and concepts are endlessly regurgitated, keeping us from new ways of seeing and thinking, stilting new ideas and framings. This is but one of the reasons I wanted to talk with the Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC) and its director, Vicki Gaubeca. In the following conversa…