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.
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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.
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.
The Nature of Violence
Legado de Fieras, an exhibit by Sonoran artist Miriam Salado, reflects on the natural world and the artifacts of human violence.
The Trump Corollary: A Q&A with Gabriel Aguirre about Venezuela
An incisive breakdown and analysis of the January 3 attack on Venezuela, and the new yet very old U.S. security strategy of domination behind it.
Under Trump, DACA Recipients Struggle with New Uncertainty
Living in Trump's Deportation America right now feels like "pure trauma" says a DACA recipient in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas.
A River without Water: A Photo Essay by Eduardo Talamantes
A ferocious drought has struck Chihuahua, leaving its most important river, the Río Conchos, almost dry, and its people in dire straits.
“A border / was placed upon / land and dermis”
A Q&A with author Raquel Gutiérrez on art, the apocalypse, Interstate 10, and their new poetry book, Southwest Reconstruction.
Giving Thanks at The Border Chronicle
We are thankful to you for supporting the only independent border-wide publication owned by journalists. Plus, read a new CJR article about us, and listen to our podcast interview with Laura St. John
How Do You Live in a ‘Disabled Ecology’?
A new exhibition in Tucson commemorates community resistance to the borderlands’ military-industrial complex.
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: November 14
Those recently deported say overcrowding in detention, lack of oversight and misinformation are creating deadly conditions. Plus, stories from the frontline of climate displacement in Guatemala.
We Just Want the Chance to Stay: Stories from Guatemala and the Borderlands on Climate and Belonging
“That, to me, is what climate adaptation should look like: It’s small cooperatives, youth projects, local entrepreneurship: investments that don’t just protect against storms but nurture belonging."
"A lot of families are suffering": A Q&A with Sister Tracey Horan from the Kino Border Initiative in Ambos Nogales
In Mexico, Horan has interviewed numerous people deported under the Trump administration."Overcrowding in detention, a lack of oversight and misinformation" are creating dangerous conditions, she says