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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The Many Scandals of the Border Industrial Complex
As election campaigns heat up, the true state of the border is revealed in record budgets, record contracts, increased border deaths, and the barring of press from the Border Security Expo in El Paso.
Reporter’s Notebook: A Dispatch from the Border Security Expo
Photos and observations on the controversy, bloated border budgets, and surveillance technology as the Border Patrol celebrates its centennial
Sasabe Notebook: Big Contracts, New Border Walls, and a Humanitarian Crisis
In this exceptionally beautiful swath of the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, there is a collision of expensive border infrastructure construction and increasing numbers of people seeking asylum.
The "Open Border" Farce
In 2023, there were record contracts for private industry on the world’s deadliest land border.
The Floating Barrier and the Border Industrial Complex
The Texas water wall gives a glimpse into rapidly proliferating border enforcement worldwide and the significant profit to be made from it.
Reporter’s Notebook: A Photo-Essay from the Border Industrial Complex as Title 42 Lifts
What policy shift? It’s business as usual for the border-enforcement machine as shown at the Border Security Expo in El Paso.
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.
The Right to Stay Home: A Coffee Cooperative Slows Down Displacement
Café Justo offers a border story like no other. It is a story not of walls, drones, and towers, but of international solidarity, and how a community tended to its own migration crisis.
After Years of Tribal Resistance, DHS Finishes its “Virtual Wall” on the Tohono O’odham Nation
An all-day quest led me to the final of the 10 towers built on native land. "You never know when you’re being watched,” said a resident.
The Officer of the Future: Facial Recognition and the Border-Industrial Complex
“The face that God gave you the day you were born will be your passport.”
The CAFTA Template: Understanding Central American Migration in a Time of Dispossession, Repression, and Environmental Crisis
Expert Jorge Cuellar discusses how countries remain exploited "tributary societies to the US," while that "sacred policy—the Central American Free Trade Agreement—has remained untouched."
The Border-Industrial Complex in the Biden Era
Robotic Dogs and Autonomous Surveillance Towers Are the New Wall