Newsletter
The Bipartisan Border Machine: Biden Never Really Stopped Building the Wall
By waiving 26 environmental and cultural laws, Biden continues the federal government’s decades-long practice of running roughshod over the borderlands and its people. This op-ed reckons with that.
At the Palestine-Mexico Border: Confronting the Climate Fortress in Southern Arizona
Renowned Palestinian scientist and environmentalist Mazin Qumsiyeh visits a surveillance tower first tested in the West Bank and speaks of the need for a “joint struggle.”
The Elon Musk Circus Comes to Eagle Pass, Texas
Billionaire’s visit was pure border theater, and a cynical move to promote his struggling social media platform
Blockading the Border: A Q&A with Timothy Dunn on the 30th Anniversary of Operation Hold the Line
The sociologist explains how the 1993 border operation remade immigration enforcement. And how now “it’s basically just political posturing, often framed by a good deal of racism.”
Reporter’s Notebook: A Glimpse into the Water Battles on the Border
“They can cut down all the flowers, but they can’t stop the spring.”
It’s The Border Chronicle’s second anniversary!
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“An Occupying Force”: Florida Troopers Descend on Texas Border Communities
“There’s already a massive police presence in border communities under Operation Lone Star,” says Lopez. “People do see it as an occupying force.”
A Return on Our Investment: Border Externalization in “America’s Backyard” under the Biden Administration
Washington has intervened in Latin America several times since the Monroe Doctrine 200 years ago. U.S. border militarization across the Western Hemisphere is this intervention's newest evolution.
On Their Own: Border Humanitarians Respond to a Crisis Created by Governments
“I kept thinking, Who is going to come step up to the plate and help us here?" says Dora Rodriguez, co-founder of a migrant resource center in Sásabe, Sonora.
Hidden Humanitarian Emergency: A Search and Rescue on the World’s Most Dangerous Border
Crew members on the humanitarian ship Sea Eye 4 give an on-the-ground account of rescuing 114 migrants on the European border, and their detainment by Italian authorities.
Taylor Swift Builds Bridges, Not Walls
A father and daughter talk borders, what it means to be binational citizens, and their shared love for Taylor Swift and Juan Gabriel
Impunity in the Borderlands: A Conversation with WOLA’s Adam Isacson
On a new in-depth report on CBP abuses "the sheer breadth of which is shocking," says the longtime human rights expert. And what Congress and the Biden administration can do about it today.