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.
Economy
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Profitable Violence: A New Era of the Border Industrial Complex
In 2025, a dramatic increase in contracts to private industry correlates with increasing violence committed by border and immigration police forces.
They Grow the Food. So Why Are So Many Going Hungry?
In the Rio Grande Valley, a coalition of farmers, educators, and advocates is reimagining a food system built on justice, not scarcity.
As AI Data Centers Target the Water-Scarce Borderlands, New Mexico Invests in Desalination
Meanwhile, community members worry about stealth approval processes and a lack of transparency.
Can the Water Resiliency Fund Help Revive the Endangered Rio Grande?
“It’s billions of dollars to focus on this, and this is all hands on deck," says Jesse Hereford, a NADBank official.
Upside-Down World: Climate Change and the Border-Industrial Complex in the Trump Era
Climate displacement and border enforcement--two dynamics trending distinctly upward--are on a collision course.
Border Chronicle: Weekly Roundup April 25
A video Q&A with border business expert, Jerry Pacheco, on Trump's tariffs, the high cost of border militarization in Eagle Pass, and Melissa and Todd discuss Trump's first 100 days in the podcast.
Reporter’s Notebook: Observations and Photos from the Border Security Expo
DHS secretary Kristi Noem explaining what's to come in an address to border industry representatives: “We can go in, take you out of your home, and deport you out of this country.”
A Tour of the Sales Floor at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix
The Border Chronicle's Todd Miller does a live video tour of vendors promoting their products to the Department of Homeland Security.
The Treasury Targets Border Residents: A Q&A with Nicholas Anthony, Finance Policy Expert at the Cato Institute
"I really do not see this changing the world by any means, but it does expand surveillance of border residents," says Anthony of treasury policy that takes effect on April 14.
What Is Plan Sonora?
How the border state became the center of Mexico’s ambitious renewable-energy plan.
The Mass Deportation Handoff
The transition from Biden to Trump through the lens of a booming border industrial complex, bipartisan consensus, and changing climate.