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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Threats and Resilience: Our Border Stories for 2023
At The Border Chronicle we’re ready to take on whatever 2023 has in store for the borderlands.
Gov. Ducey’s Illegal Shipping Container Wall is Worse Than You Can Imagine
Here’s a rundown of everything you need to know.
Under Biden, Border Wall Construction Continues. It's Just Called Something Else: A Podcast With Scott Nicol
Today, the United States has more border walls than it's ever had in history, says Nicol.
The Right to Stay Home: A Coffee Cooperative Slows Down Displacement
Café Justo offers a border story like no other. It is a story not of walls, drones, and towers, but of international solidarity, and how a community tended to its own migration crisis.
On Governor Greg Abbott's Third Term in Texas and What's In Store for the Border: A Q&A With Marianna Treviño Wright
When it Comes to Heavy-Handed Border Enforcement, the Executive Director of the National Butterfly Center Has Seen it All.
The Making of the Narco Narrative: A Podcast with Oswaldo Zavala
An examination of official discourse and the cartel narrative, the national security paradigm, and the drug war as a policy of extermination.
Shipping Containers and Environmental Destruction on the Arizona Border: A Q&A with Emily Burns
The wildlife conservationist talks about what's at stake as Arizona builds a shipping container wall through a 10-mile stretch of critical border habitat.
Midterm Maneuvering: Texas Republicans Ramp Up the Anti-immigrant Rhetoric, Powered by Fossil Fuel, and Big Tobacco
Texas Republicans Ramp Up the Anti-immigrant Rhetoric, Powered by Fossil Fuel, and Big Tobacco
How to Counter the GOP's White Supremacy Campaign Messaging: A Podcast Interview with Zachary Mueller
The political director for the nonprofit America's Voice traces the history of the GOP's embrace of white supremacy messaging from the 2017 Unite the Right rally to the upcoming midterm elections.
DeSantis' Actions Towards Migrants More Than a Political Stunt. They're a Sign of the Danger to Come.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and Texas Governor Greg Abbott are in a duel between the old Confederacy and modern authoritarianism.
Where Sports and Deportation Meet: ICE Is Removing People on the Same Planes Used to Transport Teams
What do the New England Patriots, Houston Rockets, private charter companies, and ICE Air Operations have in common? Find out here.
Meet the Corporate Donors Behind the GOP’s Extremists
“It’s essential that companies know and make public where their money ends up and what it enables."