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.
If you want to know about what’s to come on the border—what to expect, how it got to this point, and ways to fight back—put everything down right now and give this a listen.
A special podcast with Lighthouse Reports about a year-long collaboration with The Washington Post and El Universal in Mexico published this week.
Melissa and Todd discuss the election aftermath and what it means for the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
Trump's first run "was all about building the border wall and contriving a fictional ‘bad hombre’ bogeyman to fear and loathe." This time the "tactical dehumanization" has an extra "rabid vigor."
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In this on-the-ground letter from the border, we explore how between Arizona and Sonora the razor tech barrier is--and likely will continue to be--a monument to many presidents and policies.
Earlier this month the Mexican military killed six migrants in Chiapas. Behind this is the militarization of Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala, done with support and pressure from the U.S.
“The real crisis at the U.S. southern border is not the people coming across, but the hardening of the human heart,” says the author of CROSSING THE LINE.
Today's border has "surveillance towers littering the landscape, militarized personnel [everywhere], miles of formidable walls. Gatekeeper played a huge role in bringing about this dystopian reality."
In this interview reprinted with permission from Yale Climate Connections, The Border Chronicle's Todd Miller talks about the role climate change plays in migration to the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Center for Biological Diversity’s conservation advocate talks about a military attempt to increase supersonic flights and trainings in the borderlands and how the public still has time to comment.
September 11 brought heavy-handed border enforcement into a new, ever more dystopian era. It is not only a legacy, but has also become a 21st-century recipe for security.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.