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 longtime border journalist confronts a democracy under siege, The Border Chronicle is growing, please take our survey! And the Coast Guard launches 'Operation River Wall.'


Opinion: Drone attack in Tijuana a glimpse of a new kind of narco war San Diego Union-Tribune
La embajadora de Palestina inicia gira nacional en Tijuana denunciando genocidio en Gaza Tijuana Press
Coast Guard launches Operation River Wall to control the border along the Rio Grande US Coast Guard News
Trump’s ICE Arrested a Whistleblower Who Exposed Sexual Assault in Detention. Now, He’s Left the Country. The Texas Observer
Judge permits questioning of top Border Patrol boss in lawsuit over treatment of protesters in Chicago. Chicago Sun Times
Border barriers making it harder for health care workers to reach people who use drugs El Paso Times/Puente News Collaborative/Texas Observer
Asylum-seekers now held for days – in a downtown San Diego basement Times of San Diego
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