The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: May 1
Happy May Day! An audio deep dive into the National Defense Areas and a human rights archeologist speaks on the politics of haunting and border deaths.
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."
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
"The 'Great Replacement' isn't new. It’s just that it's been packaged for the digital age in a very effective way."
"I feel very different about this work than anything I’ve done before. It’s like an open wound."
Robotic Dogs and Autonomous Surveillance Towers Are the New Wall
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.
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.
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
Since 9/11 the United States has expanded its southwestern border enforcement abroad. Yes, even to Ukraine.
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.
Robo-dogs, ghost drones, Palmer Luckey, and protestors outside, plus other observations from my week at the Border Security Expo in Texas
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
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.