Newsletter
The CAFTA Template: Understanding Central American Migration in a Time of Dispossession, Repression, and Environmental Crisis
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."
Reporter’s Notebook: Entering the Season of Death at the Border
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
How YouTube is Promoting White Supremacy to Young Viewers: A Q&A with Shauna Siggelkow
"The 'Great Replacement' isn't new. It’s just that it's been packaged for the digital age in a very effective way."
Where Does Justice Find its Limit? On Writing an Opera About Family Separation: A Q&A with Anna Deeny Morales
"I feel very different about this work than anything I’ve done before. It’s like an open wound."
The Border-Industrial Complex in the Biden Era
Robotic Dogs and Autonomous Surveillance Towers Are the New Wall
The Things They Carried: Is the Border Patrol discarding asylum seekers’ documents?
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.
An Open Letter to the Biden Administration: It’s Time to Lean In to the “Open Borders” Accusations
C’mon President Biden, let’s stare down the real crisis on the border, the crisis of imagination. It is possible to do things another way.
The Border Patrol Union Leads the Charge on Title 42 Misinformation
With so much misinformation circulating about border and immigration policies, it doesn’t help to have Border Patrol union leaders stoking fear and white-supremacist conspiracy theories
“The American Homeland Is the Planet”: How the U.S. Exports Its Border to Ukraine
Since 9/11 the United States has expanded its southwestern border enforcement abroad. Yes, even to Ukraine.
It’s Not Aiding and Abetting, It’s Humanitarian Aid: A Q&A with Eddie Canales, founder of the South Texas Human Rights Center
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.
Reporter's Notebook: This Year's Border Security Expo in San Antonio Was the Biggest Ever: “Why Would You Even Want a Solution?”
Robo-dogs, ghost drones, Palmer Luckey, and protestors outside, plus other observations from my week at the Border Security Expo in Texas
Cruelty as Border Policy: The Biden Administration Keeps in Place CBP’s “Consequence Delivery System”
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