For years, Flores has served as an immigration policy advisor to Democrats at the national level, including President Biden. She talks about what went wrong, and what Democrats should be doing now.
In this reflection and Chihuahua travelogue, I converse with Mexican fishers and farmers about drought, climate change, the incoming U.S. president, the border, and new ways of being in the world.
Mutual aid isn’t enough, says Zachary Mueller, political director for the nonprofit America’s Voice. We need a new coalition that studies the Right’s strategy, and builds a viable counterstrategy.
The journalist and author talks about how sheriffs might assist mass deportations, while others resist as they did during the first Trump administration.
Trump's first run "was all about building the border wall and contriving a fictional ‘bad hombre’ bogeyman to fear and loathe." This time the "tactical dehumanization" has an extra "rabid vigor."
On Election Day, I take a meditative and ultimately inspiring walk along the border wall on the Mexican side. And discover why it is more important than ever to listen to people of the borderlands.
In this on-the-ground letter from the border, we explore how between Arizona and Sonora the razor tech barrier is--and likely will continue to be--a monument to many presidents and policies.
