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.
A reflection on the development of a border war machine, its imposition, its fragility, and the necessity of finding another way.
Climate displacement and border enforcement--two dynamics trending distinctly upward--are on a collision course.
DHS secretary Kristi Noem explaining what's to come in an address to border industry representatives: “We can go in, take you out of your home, and deport you out of this country.”
The Border Chronicle's Todd Miller does a live video tour of vendors promoting their products to the Department of Homeland Security.
As election campaigns heat up, the true state of the border is revealed in record budgets, record contracts, increased border deaths, and the barring of press from the Border Security Expo in El Paso.
If you want to learn about border technology, listen to this conversation about a new book on surviving migration in the age of artificial intelligence.
Photos and observations on the controversy, bloated border budgets, and surveillance technology as the Border Patrol celebrates its centennial
A quest to figure out what is happening with the razor wire in Nogales. Part of it has been removed. But is this permanent? And what does this have to do with new technology? Read on!
How the European Union is funding the International Organization for Migration to enact brutal border operations in the Balkans.
As widespread election border theater kicks in, the director of the Surveillance Resistance Lab talks about smart borders, border externalization, “identity dominance,” and what can be done about it.
"The border has become the next war zone for the military industrial complex.”
"Israel’s brutal crackdown in Gaza is a bleak reminder of how authoritarianism and technology go hand in hand, as rockets and drones in the sky dim the stars of Bethlehem."
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.