The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: June 5
The Border Chronicle hangs out with legendary journalist Amy Goodman, plus big tech and the "everywhere border" and a podcast about Latin American art and the borderlands and more!
Border Militarization
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The Operation Lone Star Blue Print: Texas-Style Enforcement Expands Across the Border
As border crossings reach a historic low, Trump and Abbott double down on military expansion and increasing the capacity for mass deportation.
A Long History of Migrant Detention at Guantánamo: A Q&A with Jenna Loyd
Its decades-long legacy? A secret detention site for the war on terror, the rounding up of asylum seekers and migrants (including HIV-positive Haitians), trash bag shelters, and maggot-infested food.
America's Gulag
In COMPLEX, artist David Taylor documents border surveillance and the “most significant architectural legacy we have created in the last 20 years.”
The Mass Deportation Handoff
The transition from Biden to Trump through the lens of a booming border industrial complex, bipartisan consensus, and changing climate.
What Is Texas’s Operation Lone Star, and What Happens If Trump Makes It a National Model? A Podcast with Texas Civil Rights Advocate Bob Libal
What Is Texas’s Operation Lone Star, and What Happens If Trump Makes It a National Model? A Podcast with
Border Patrol Could Become Trump's Secret Police: A Q&A With Former Agent Jenn Budd
Budd, a former Border Patrol agent, and now one of the agency's fiercest critics says the rogue agency wants even more power under Trump.
What’s Gonna Happen on the Border in 2025? A Podcast with Erika Pinheiro
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.
Reporter's Notebook: Melissa Talks About a New Binational Investigation on Border Militarization and Drownings in the Rio Grande
A special podcast with Lighthouse Reports about a year-long collaboration with The Washington Post and El Universal in Mexico published this week.
Border Chronicle Postelection Podcast
Melissa and Todd discuss the election aftermath and what it means for the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
The “Red Revenge” Tour: A Q&A with Pedro Rios about What to Expect in the Borderlands with Donald Trump
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."
The Billionaires and Algorithms Win. Now the Fight over Truth Begins.
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The Election and the Future of the Wall
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.