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.
A rare in-depth look inside a migrant caravan and Mexico’s amped-up border enforcement, along with scathing revelations about humanitarian networks on the Mexican migrant trail
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."
Budd's new book "Against the Wall" takes an unflinching look at the systemic misogyny and racism in the Border Patrol, and overcoming a childhood of trauma and abuse.
A deadly Border Patrol shooting, a binational group rejuvenating the desert, and the wall as a "modern-day cross," plus other observations and photos from a trip to the Douglas borderlands
"I feel very different about this work than anything I’ve done before. It’s like an open wound."
In Arizona and Texas, border residents are noticing more and more personal belongings left behind, including confidential documents, along the U.S. side of the border wall.
The Border Chronicle visits with Fernando “Fernie” Quiroz, director of the AZ-CA Humanitarian Coalition that provides aid to asylum seekers in Yuma
"Climate change will be the first time we realize that nation states can't solve this problem by themselves."
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.
Biden is maintaining long-standing deterrence policies that systematically create suffering for migrant families, according to new CBP documents obtained by the National Immigrant Justice Center
Meet the vigilante group, and QAnon conspiracy theorists, intercepting unaccompanied minors at the Arizona-Mexico Border, and the Border Patrol seems fine with it.
Al Otro Lado’s Tijuana-based litigation and policy director examines the border, past, present, and future, through the lens of the invasive and futuristic surveillance apparatus that is already here.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.