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.
With more than 40 percent of the U.S.-Mexico border now under military authority, we discuss our Border Chronicle/The War Horse investigation examining this unprecedented expansion of federal power and its impact on border communities.
“For a long time, a big proportion of the American public said that border security was their most important issue. People are starting to realize what that means in terms of the violence entailed.”
In this Q&A, Dov Baum of the American Friends Service Committee identifies corporations profiting from border and immigration enforcement and the "people pressure" needed to counter them.
Our final post of the year looks at the contrast between people celebrating holiday traditions across borders and the U.S. Border Patrol's Operation Santa Claus.
Solidarity with author, border scholar Harsha Walia and others suffering from a record-breaking deluge in British Columbia. And next week's news from The Border Chronicle.
