The Border Chronicle Podcast

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.

Immigration Detention Inc.: A Podcast with Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon

The authors break down the billions generated by private immigration detention companies. An industry, they show, that is based on a false narrative.

Latest in The Border Chronicle Podcast
How ICE Detention Was Built

Private corporations and the Trump administration will make the world's largest immigrant detention system even deadlier. But it can be stopped, says Jesse Franzblau

What Does Security Really Mean? Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller Analyze the First Seven Months of Trump

A podcast discussion about security as U.S. health care gets cut to fund the most gargantuan border enforcement bill ever passed. How do we create a counterforce to this?

Climate, Tech, Borders, and Gaza: A Podcast with Amali Tower

A lively conversation about how surveillance tech, created and tested in Israel & the US, targets climate refugees across the world. And how refugees have much better solutions than more of the same.

Audio Feature: “La Jaula de Oro”, Trump’s ICE Raids Cast a Shadow of Fear in the Rio Grande Valley

Intensified ICE raids have turned South Texas' Rio Grande Valley into a “Golden Cage,” trapping migrant families in fear and isolation.

From Seeking Asylum to a Life of Service: Dora Rodriguez on Her New Memoir “A Daughter of Unforgiving Terrain.”
The Cost of Being Undocumented: A Podcast with Alix Dick and Antero Garcia

Alix Dick speaks about her new memoir, cowritten with Antero Garcia, on the high cost of living without legal status in Trump's America.

A Video Dispatch from the New Mexico Border

Todd visits Colombus, New Mexico, at the center of a new national defense area. Residents say they are saturated with border enforcement, and would prefer an investment in their community instead.

The Endangered Rio Grande Can Still Be Saved: A Podcast with Maria-Elena Giner

Former IBWC Commissioner Maria-Elena Giner, a border native who led significant water infrastructure projects, was ousted last week by President Donald Trump amid ongoing U.S.-Mexico water disputes.

New Border Wall is an ‘Ecological Catastrophe’: A Podcast with The Sierra Club’s Erick Meza

Arizona's San Rafael Valley and other critical wildlife corridors in the borderlands are targeted by the Trump Administration for new wall construction.