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.
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A Report from Limbo: Asylum Seekers Face the New Trump Era
After Trump’s inauguration: despair, uncertainty, creativity, and a glimmer of hope at a shelter for asylum seekers in Nogales, Sonora.
A Long History of Migrant Detention at Guantánamo: A Q&A with Jenna Loyd
Its decades-long legacy? A secret detention site for the war on terror, the rounding up of asylum seekers and migrants (including HIV-positive Haitians), trash bag shelters, and maggot-infested food.
What Is Plan Sonora?
How the border state became the center of Mexico’s ambitious renewable-energy plan.
America's Gulag
In COMPLEX, artist David Taylor documents border surveillance and the “most significant architectural legacy we have created in the last 20 years.”
The Mass Deportation Handoff
The transition from Biden to Trump through the lens of a booming border industrial complex, bipartisan consensus, and changing climate.
Postcards from the Border: An Essay of Paintings with Artist Susan Lyman
Welcome to this digital gallery of collage painting to reckon with and reimagine landscapes in the U.S. borderlands.
Trump’s “Invasion” Theatrics: Act 1
In Trump’s executive orders it’s possible to see how he could build an authoritarian infrastructure under the guise of protecting Americans from an invasion.
A Walk on the Border the Day after the National Emergency Declaration
A meditative walk along the border wall in Nogales seeks a new way forward the day after the inauguration of Donald Trump.
Death and New Life at the Santa Cruz River
An artist and a group of scientists on grieving and restoring Arizona-Sonora’s shared waterway. "It’s enormously inspiring.”
Border Patrol Could Become Trump's Secret Police: A Q&A With Former Agent Jenn Budd
Budd, a former Border Patrol agent, and now one of the agency's fiercest critics says the rogue agency wants even more power under Trump.