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.
Tohono O’odham Mike Wilson’s story gives us a compelling, personal, and geopolitical glimpse into the borderlands across a history of militarization, resistance, and transformation.
"We can’t do our job without taking ethnicity into account. We are very dependent on that." —DHS official
Will the mass slaughter in Gaza result in more profitable surveillance and weapons on U.S. borders? Sure looks like it, says the Australian author.
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.
As the Biden administration imposes more border restrictions, a group of people challenge dangerous border policies and cultivate migrant solidarity with ritual and remembrance.
Photos and observations on the controversy, bloated border budgets, and surveillance technology as the Border Patrol celebrates its centennial
John Washington’s new book attempts to break open the political discourse on borders, showing us that another world is possible.
Photos and observations from a trip to southern Texas: from boat patrols to crowd-sourced walls, from aerostats and SpaceX to reservoirs with little water.
A wealth of scientific data shows that nonnatural light pollution has severe impacts on migratory birds, pollinators, and nocturnal wildlife, he says.
A quest to figure out what is happening with the razor wire in Nogales. Part of it has been removed. But is this permanent? And what does this have to do with new technology? Read on!
The La Verdad Juárez journalist and Migration Tech Monitor fellow explains how “CBP One is a barrier to access asylum” after a year of reporting from the Mexican side.
The codirector and star of the short documentary Shura discuss what happens when the spirit of kindness—in this case in the form of an 82-year-old woman from Illinois—meets the U.S.-Mexico border.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.