Border Chronicle: Weekly Roundup April 11
DHS Sec. Noem pledges privatization, profit at Border Security Expo; A new program that uses AI to help residents after flooding. Also, submit your questions for border business expert Jerry Pacheco.
Ask an Expert: Jerry Pacheco
When it comes to trade, as so many other things in life, Mexico and the United States are joined at the hip. How is Trump’s roller coaster tariff regime affecting our trade and commerce at the border? What will happen with Mexico’s relationship with the U.S.?
Jerry Pacheco is the president of The Border Industrial Association based in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. He is a nationally recognized expert on international trade and cross-border commerce, frequently called upon to advise U.S. and global leaders—including four Mexican presidents—on trade policy. And he’s ready to answer your questions about tariffs, US-Mexico trade and what he sees on the horizon with so much uncertainty brewing.
Email us your questions about tariffs, trade and business at the border for Jerry Pacheco. He’ll answer your questions via video in our weekly roundup on April 25. Don’t forget to put “ask an expert” in the subject line of your email. Send your questions to theborderchronicle@protonmail.com
This Week in The Border Chronicle:
Reporter’s Notebook: Observations and Photos from the Border Security Expo
On Tuesday, Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem approached the podium to a standing ovation at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix, Arizona. As the afternoon keynote speaker, she marked the first time a DHS secretary had addressed the expo in its 18-year history. Before Noem took the stage, the expo’s advisory board chair, Carla …
Seeking Flood Justice in the Rio Grande Valley
“Back in 2020 when we had the hurricane, my house fell from the foundation, so we had to pick it up and strap it down. It was a huge mess,” said Lizbeth Ramos, a community organizer who lives near Donna, Texas, in a colonia—a type of unincorporated communit…
Also, Border Chronicle reporter, Caroline Tracey, and novelist Fernando Flores were interviewed by KJZZ Radio about her review of Flores’ dystopian, yet darkly humorous borderlands fiction. You can listen to the interview here.
I wonder what will happen with that 5-10 mile stretch of table grapes on the East side of Hwy 15 north of Hermosillo? Guarantee those were sold to Los Estados.