The DNA Archive Built to Identify the Border’s Missing Has Vanished
The Colibrí Center for Human Rights was a vital link between families and their missing loved ones. But now it's gone dark.
Weekly Roundup
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: October 24
A longtime border journalist confronts a democracy under siege, The Border Chronicle is growing, please take our survey! And the Coast Guard launches 'Operation River Wall.'
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Please Take Our Survey: Help The Border Chronicle Improve
In the last couple of weeks, we’ve been hinting at ambitious plans for growth on the horizon for The Border Chronicle.
Melissa del Bosque
Writing in the Era of Exhibitionist Violence
Power appeared in Brownsville, Texas with space-age visions made possible through old-fashioned pollution. It arrived in the form of state regulato…
Michelle García
More News from the Border:
Opinion: Drone attack in Tijuana a glimpse of a new kind of narco war San Diego Union-Tribune
La embajadora de Palestina inicia gira nacional en Tijuana denunciando genocidio en Gaza Tijuana Press
Coast Guard launches Operation River Wall to control the border along the Rio Grande US Coast Guard News
Trump’s ICE Arrested a Whistleblower Who Exposed Sexual Assault in Detention. Now, He’s Left the Country. The Texas Observer
Judge permits questioning of top Border Patrol boss in lawsuit over treatment of protesters in Chicago. Chicago Sun Times
Border barriers making it harder for health care workers to reach people who use drugs El Paso Times/Puente News Collaborative/Texas Observer
Asylum-seekers now held for days – in a downtown San Diego basement Times of San Diego
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