How New Mexico Learned to Love Its Ephemeral Waters
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.
A lively conversation about how surveillance tech, created and tested in Israel & the US, targets climate refugees across the world. And how refugees have much better solutions than more of the same.
A cross-border gathering evokes a creative world of “gritty hope” in the face of new wall construction.
Climate displacement and border enforcement--two dynamics trending distinctly upward--are on a collision course.
An informative video conversation with border militarization expert Timothy Dunn, what the hell is Elon Musk up to at Starbase?, and a solidarity walk begins from the border to Tucson.
On Monday, 43 people embarked on the Migrant Trail, a 75-mile walk through the desert in solidarity with people who have died crossing the border.
A podcast on life in Trump's America without legal status, and artists recast the Rio Grande as a vital life force, not a border checkpoint. Plus, submit your Qs for OG border expert Tim Dunn.
Todd travels to New Mexico's "National Defense Area" and speaks with residents, and Pablo in South Texas writes about the recently designated "endangered" Rio Grande, which is the true border crisis.
All the militarization and its propaganda hide a real border security issue: the struggle people face in making ends meet.
Todd visits Colombus, New Mexico, at the center of a new national defense area. Residents say they are saturated with border enforcement, and would prefer an investment in their community instead.
New “National Defense Areas” in Texas and New Mexico are escalating a diplomatic crisis with Mexico, creating legal turmoil in U.S. courts, and even leading to deaths among active-duty troops
A video Q&A with border business expert, Jerry Pacheco, on Trump's tariffs, the high cost of border militarization in Eagle Pass, and Melissa and Todd discuss Trump's first 100 days in the podcast.
In a lively conversation, The Border Chronicle founders grapple with the last three months of militarization and surveillance, and ponder what’s to come.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.