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.
Border Militarization
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Pushing Back: Reporter Patrick Strickland on Europe’s Violent Borders
"When you allow the right to asylum to be chipped away, you’re not just doing it to other people. You’re doing it to yourself, too."
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: After Title 42, U.S. Border Enforcement Will Push Further South
When Title 42 phases out on May 11, expect the further export of U.S. “prevention through deterrence” into Latin America and the Caribbean.
Violence as an Investment Policy, Human Rights Violations as a Business Model
A new report shows that border militarization, mass deportation, organized crime, and free trade are all pieces of the same puzzle.
Ducey’s Debacle: The Wall of Shipping Containers Is Gone, but Questions Remain
Former protestors celebrate the re-opening of the stretch of border, and evaluate the environmental damage.
Residents Fight to Save the Binational Friendship Park: A Q&A with Pedro Rios
As 30-foot walls go up, U.S. residents lose another important symbol of binational solidarity between the two countries.
Left to Die: Deterrence, Death, and Rescue in the Borderlands
The story of a harrowing, multiday rescue of a stranded Guatemalan man in the frigid February Arizona desert that raises serious questions about the Border Patrol's search and rescue unit.
Laredo's Epic Battle Against Federal and State-Funded Border Walls: A Conversation with Tricia Cortez
"It's an obscene amount of money to destroy 16 river miles," says Cortez of Texas' new border wall plan.
The Border Narrative Machine: A Reflection on a Lost Debate at Yale
I lost the debate, I got hissed at, and I got a dose of humility. More importantly, I got a privileged view of how the national discourse works to shut down alternatives to militarizing the border.
Warrantless Searches, Stops With No Probable Cause Are Un-American: A Conversation With Sheriff David Hathaway
The second part of our in-depth conversation with the Arizona border sheriff
How the U.S. Border Arrived in Kenya
A look at U.S. border externalization, the death it has caused, and the art of negotiating and resisting borders in Maasailand.
Inside Mexico’s Largest Detention Center: A Q&A with Belén Fernández
“There may not be human rights in Siglo XXI,” the name of the Tapachula immigration detention center where the author and journalist was imprisoned, “but there’s lots of humanity.”
The Border Industrial Complex Goes Big Time
Last year was the most profitable on record for border contractors, and by all indications there will be more to reap in 2023.