The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: February 27
A protest against the buoy barrier in the RGV, a tense situation with military at the end of the wall in Arizona, and deported vets seek justice.
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The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: November 21
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
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This Week in The Border Chronicle:
From Impunity at the Border to Illegal Boat Strikes: A Podcast with Jonathan Blitzer
Jonathan Blitzer is a staff writer at The New Yorker who covers immigration, politics, and foreign affairs for the magazine. His recent piece for the magazine, “The Real Target of Trump’s War on Drug Boats,” highlights Stephen Miller, homeland security adviser to President Trump, as a driving force, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, behind the …
Melissa del Bosque
How Do You Live in a ‘Disabled Ecology’?
For the next seven months, a living room will occupy the northeast corner of the Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art. There, visitors will find a couch draped with a crocheted blanket, a television set playing an episode of Frontline from 1988, and a basket stacked with photocopied fo…
Caroline Tracey
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A Theology of Smuggling Places Journal
In the early 1980s, in Tucson, activists and religious leaders joined forces to protect refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border. Their collaboration galvanized the Sanctuary Movement.
A drying-up Rio Grande basin threatens water security on both sides of the border Associated Press
RGISC warns border wall plan could disrupt Laredo’s river culture Laredo Morning Times
US and Mexican residents rally against border wall construction in Arizona Caló News
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with ‘suspicious’ travel patterns Associated Press
The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal The Guardian
Nogales, Sonora, dismantles migrant camps at sports complex Tucson Sentinel
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