The Border Chronicle hangs out with legendary journalist Amy Goodman, plus big tech and the "everywhere border" and a podcast about Latin American art and the borderlands and more!
The journalist and author talks about how sheriffs might assist mass deportations, while others resist as they did during the first Trump administration.
Trump's first run "was all about building the border wall and contriving a fictional ‘bad hombre’ bogeyman to fear and loathe." This time the "tactical dehumanization" has an extra "rabid vigor."
Earlier this month the Mexican military killed six migrants in Chiapas. Behind this is the militarization of Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala, done with support and pressure from the U.S.
Immigrant detention has doubled during Biden, which now wants to expand it more. But not if rights groups can help it, explains the senior policy analyst for the National Immigrant Justice Center.
Border nonprofits say contractor, My Bright Horizon, left brochures, but didn’t say it was part of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s anti-immigrant "relocation" initiative.
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.
With tonight’s debate, it's the exact right time to learn more about the enforcement-prison-deportation nexus. And how Shah’s vital new book offers a vision out of this mess.
