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.
For nearly a decade, Eddie Canales has worked to save lives and identify missing migrants along the Texas-Mexico border. In 2013, Canales opened the South Texas Human Rights Center in the small ranching town of Falfurrias in rural Brooks County.
In the wake of mass deportations under Title 42, residents from Tucson to Sásabe, Sonora, have pooled their resources to found migrant resource centers in Mexican border towns.
The former South Texas police officer talks about working a “surge” on the Texas-Mexico border, and playing a role in “border theater.”
In this audio interview Ortega discusses why she chose to face a judge in order to protect a sacred spring on the Arizona-Mexico Border.
The author on his new book "The Marauders," the rise of far-right extremism in Europe and the American borderlands and what communities can learn from Arivaca, Arizona
Our final post of the year looks at the contrast between people celebrating holiday traditions across borders and the U.S. Border Patrol's Operation Santa Claus.
A Q&A with Scott Nicol on his New Report on the Expansion of Border Wall in Texas.
Spector, who specializes in Mexican asylum cases, said he expects more human rights defenders will request asylum after border opens this month to people with travel visas.
Kate Scott and other border residents are documenting the environmental damage. But Scott says they're left in the dark when it comes to the government's plan for remediation.
Rey Anzaldua and his family spent four years fighting off the Trump administration only to have their land in South Texas seized by the Biden administration to build a border wall.
A Q&A with Pamela Rivas. The Federal Government Wanted to Build a Border Wall on Her Family’s Land. After 13 Years, Rivas Finally Won It Back.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.