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.
The Border Chronicle podcast is hosted by Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller. Based in Tucson, Arizona, we interview fascinating fronterizo/as, community leaders, activists, artists and more at the U.S.-Mexico border.
"We need to be thinking more creatively and less restrictively around border policy and yet we're going in the opposite direction," says Bauer.
Al Otro Lado's executive director discusses what’s to come this election year: more of the CBP One app and open-air border prisons, along with a hyper-distorted fearmongering narrative of overwhelm.
What happens when you are in love but a massive border apparatus is in your way? Listen here to find out.
Yates, co-author of a new report on asylum processing, speaks of increasingly fragmented asylum policies at the U.S.-Mexico border as a historic number of people cross the Darién Gap.
The co-founder of the Sidewalk School talks about racism and Black migration, border disinformation, and how governments could alleviate suffering at the border.
“It’s not difficult to understand that a population that makes its livelihood off the land would find climate change oppressive, and would find climate change to be tantamount to persecution.”
We can't be a leader in the world if we shut down asylum, he says.
The legendary storyteller takes us on a trip through the Arizona borderlands, its sky islands, flora and fauna, all the way to the border wall with Mexico.
Recorded at the Tin Shed Theater with the wonderful people of Patagonia, Arizona, we talk about Taylor's fascinating career as an educator and artist who challenges our perceptions of borders.
"It feels like you're always being watched."
The lawyer and longtime community organizer talks about her two-year ban from practicing immigration law, how she is responding to it, and her history of border organizing and advocacy in Arizona.
As Europe closes its doors, more asylum seekers take the deadly trek through the jungle on their way to the United States and Canada, says Yates.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.