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.
"It feels like we're on our own," said a Texas border resident.
A gas terminal tests Sheinbaum's environmental pledge, expert Q&A on financial border surveillance, and a live podcast with authors Luis Alberto Urrea and Gary Nabhan. Plus more news from the border.
"I really do not see this changing the world by any means, but it does expand surveillance of border residents," says Anthony of treasury policy that takes effect on April 14.
A gas-export terminal threatening the “world’s aquarium” tests Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum's pledge to protect the environment.
The Trump administration is exporting its draconian approach to border enforcement to Mexico through aggressive political pressure and drastic reductions in NGO funding.
Darkly humorous and surreal, Fernando A. Flores's borderlands fiction heralds the future. His new novel Brother Brontë chronicles deportation flights, government propaganda and a tech dystopia.
A nonprofit diverts millions of pounds of produce from the landfill feeding thousands. And Trump rolls out Texas-style detention and deportation nationwide. Plus more news from the border.
As border crossings reach a historic low, Trump and Abbott double down on military expansion and increasing the capacity for mass deportation.
Welcome to our first weekly roundup! It's all here; from a border surveillance blimp that crashed in Dallas, to a podcast on Trump's immigration agenda, and the deadly EU/US deportation machine.
From Europe to the United States, deterrence isn't preventing migration. It is only making it deadlier.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.