The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: February 13
How exactly do we get out of this apocalypse? The artists might just know. And why we need to be concerned about how U.S. military tactics abroad find their way home.
How exactly do we get out of this apocalypse? The artists might just know. And why we need to be concerned about how U.S. military tactics abroad find their way home.
Just abolishing ICE misses the bigger point, and a deep look at the history of cotton in the borderlands.
The Border Patrol's long legacy of abuse, and border walls and buoys are killing the Rio Grande. A moving reflection from a border resident on what that means for the US and Mexico.
An art exhibition in Mexico, billions of dollars of CBP spending on private contracts, ICE impunity, and more.
The perspective from Venezuela, Border Patrol and ICE impunity spreads from the border to the interior. Plus, we'll be debuting a new Border Chronicle later this month!
Dynamite blasts and paradise lost with wall construction in southern Arizona and a reflection on 2025 at the U.S.-Mexico border. Plus, support The Border Chronicle so we can expand coverage in 2026.
A DACA recipient in South Texas says life under the Trump mass deportation dragnet is "pure trauma." And a former immigration judge, fired in November, talks about the future of immigration courts.
A photographer documents extreme drought in Chihuahua and a Tucson poet talks apocalypse, and finding inspiration from Interstate 10 for her new book. Plus, more news from across the border region.
Illegal boat strikes are part of Trump's plan to militarize domestic policy, and a new exhibition in Tucson commemorates community resistance to the borderlands’ military-industrial complex
Those recently deported say overcrowding in detention, lack of oversight and misinformation are creating deadly conditions. Plus, stories from the frontline of climate displacement in Guatemala.
A loss of SNAP benefits has rippling effect in border communities, Russ McSpadden conjures poetry from the devastation of border wall construction, plus meet our new Border Chronicler, Brenda Machado
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.