The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: June 26
The efforts to preserve the desert's iconic plants, resist the destruction of ancient trees, and deal with the harassing border machine, even after deportation.
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The Many Scandals of the Border Industrial Complex
As election campaigns heat up, the true state of the border is revealed in record budgets, record contracts, increased border deaths, and the barring of press from the Border Security Expo in El Paso.
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“Forever Followed by ICE”
Long after they are deported, people are subjected to the Everywhere Border of surveillance, stigma, and economic hardship.
A Traffic Stop, Three Months in ICE Detention, and a Deportation Order: How Texas’s Immigration Crackdown Is Sweeping Up DACA Recipients
With interior Border Patrol checkpoints to the north, and the border to the south, DACA recipients in border communities feel under threat by multiple layers of law enforcement, from ICE to local police. Nowhere more so than in Texas.
“They Don’t Care About Any Law”: A Q&A with Elsa Hull on Her Arrest While Opposing Border Wall Construction
This month, Hull’s worst fears came true as contractors for Southwest Valley Constructors and Kiewit started bulldozing and scraping land near her home to construct a 30-foot border wall.
Tech, War, and the Everywhere Border
Going “back to normal” won’t end structural violence in the U.S. or anywhere else.