The Borderlands’ Lost Third Country
Mexican writer Álvaro Enrigue’s new novel, Now I Surrender, is an epic about the U.S. and Mexico’s joint erasure of Apachería.
Former IBWC Commissioner Maria-Elena Giner, a border native who led significant water infrastructure projects, was ousted last week by President Donald Trump amid ongoing U.S.-Mexico water disputes.
Researchers launch a new program that uses AI and collaborative mapping to help border residents in need after flooding disasters.
A gas-export terminal threatening the “world’s aquarium” tests Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's pledge to protect the environment.
The Border Chronicle helps kick off an exciting new oral history project called "The Border Before" led by the nonprofit Voices from the Border, and other local border organizations.
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
While he lived, Eduardo "Eddie" Canales saved countless lives in the remote South Texas ranchlands. A statewide center in Texas to identify missing migrants would be a fitting legacy.
As the Biden administration imposes more border restrictions, a group of people challenge dangerous border policies and cultivate migrant solidarity with ritual and remembrance.
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.
In election years, U.S. politicians treat migrants as dangerous, flat, or faceless, and claim enforcement is the only solution to the “crisis.” A shelter in Nogales offers a different perspective.
We are being used as political pawns by our own governor, says Jessie Fuentes, an Eagle Pass business owner.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.