An investigation into how President Trump’s emergency declaration along the southern border expanded military power, blurred legal lines, and helped spread the use of military-grade technology.
Even sites once protected by Congress, including a butterfly refuge and a historic church, are slated for fencing funded by the “one big beautiful bill”—while the river itself is transformed by a floating barrier.
A pioneering asylum lawyer in El Paso leaves a legacy of lives saved, an immigration judge fired by the Trump administration asks, 'What's next?' at the border, and The Border Chronicle's, Caroline Tracey, has a new book out!
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While menacing Venezuela and Greenland, an “unbound” Trump has unleashed the empire on itself in Minneapolis.
Rollbacks to the Clean Water Act may have affected the borderlands more than any other region. States are stepping up—but there’s still more to do.
For years, Flores has served as an immigration policy advisor to Democrats at the national level, including President Biden. She talks about what went wrong, and what Democrats should be doing now.
An art exhibition in Mexico, billions of dollars of CBP spending on private contracts, ICE impunity, and more.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.
