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.
"When you allow the right to asylum to be chipped away, you’re not just doing it to other people. You’re doing it to yourself, too."
When Title 42 phases out on May 11, expect the further export of U.S. “prevention through deterrence” into Latin America and the Caribbean.
This photo-essay looks into rivers and water, farming and conflict, rainbows and herons, climate change and migration from and through the Mexican borderlands.
Many different countries are working with the United States to wall off access to asylum, says Limón Garza. "This means that vulnerable people have far fewer places to turn to."
Felicia Rangel-Samponaro and Victor Cavazos founded The Sidewalk School, then a migrant shelter in Mexico. Now they also provide tech-support for a flawed U.S. immigration app.
The story of a harrowing, multiday rescue of a stranded Guatemalan man in the frigid February Arizona desert that raises serious questions about the Border Patrol's search and rescue unit.
"For many, there is no line to get into — no 'right way' to come to the U.S.,” Zak says.
"Hardly anyone is getting an asylum appointment," says one nonprofit.
A detailed, intimate, frank (and, be warned, often explicit) conversation with the 'Border Hacker' authors about how they met, why they decided to write a book, and how they are living under threat.
At The Border Chronicle we’re ready to take on whatever 2023 has in store for the borderlands.
Whether Title 42 ends or not, Sonoyta, Sonora, and the Centro de Esperanza are preparing for the long haul, said Aaron Flores, codirector of the center.
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.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.