The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 8

Another National Defense Area declared in the Rio Grande Valley. What will this mean? And the philosophy behind a provocative housing project in Mexicali for those who dream another world is possible.

The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 8

This Week in The Border Chronicle:

‘They Want to Have a Police State’: Trump’s Rio Grande Military Zone
On his first day back in office, President Trump condemned what he called the “vast amount of peo…
The Mexicali Experimental Project: A Contemplative, Human-Scale Approach to Housing on the Border
West of Mexicali’s city center, on an ordinary street of working-class homes, look closely and you’ll notice something different on the horizon. Instead of the flat laminate roofs common across the low…

More News from the Border:

A surveillance tower of the Hellenic Coast Guard on the coast of Corfu, Greece. The Mediterranean Sea is the world’s deadliest border crossing. (Photo credit: Todd Miller)

Trump Directs Military to Target Foreign Drug Cartels New York Times

Watch: New border wall going up over existing barrier in Rio Grande Valley Border Report

New Arizona jaguar sightings a 'positive sign' despite border wall, UA researchers say Tucson Sentinel

Fort Bliss army base on US southern border to take 1,000 ICE detainees The Guardian

Border Patrol and ICE Agents Are Arresting U.S. Citizens in Immigration Raids Capital & Main

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