The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: June 27

Immigrant communities under siege from the Trump administration, a fascinating podcast conversation about tech surveillance, Gaza, and U.S. borders with Todd Miller and Amali Tower, and more!

By Alix Dick, Melissa del Bosque & The Border Chronicle

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June 27, 2025

Thank you to everyone who joined our live video talk last night with Alix Dick about her new memoir “The cost of being undocumented: one woman’s reckoning with America’s inhumane math.” Alix talked about what it’s like for people living without legal status in the United States as masked federal agents kidnap people off the streets in California. This week at The Border Chronicle, we also have an audio feature by Pablo de la Rosa in South Texas where immigrant communities say they are afraid to leave their homes for fear of being targeted by law enforcement and federal agents.

To learn more about Alix’s new memoir, listen to our May podcast with Alix and her co-author Antero Garcia. Also check out their excellent Substack “La Cuenta.”

Also, a big thanks to our readers and listeners for supporting our work by becoming a paid subscriber or donating to The Border Chronicle. We rely almost solely on our subscribers to fund this work. The Border Chronicle is the only border-wide publication in the country providing on-the-ground reporting, context and analysis from a border perspective. If you haven’t already, please consider becoming a paid subscriber today for just $6 a month or $60 a year. Everything goes directly to our reporting and research. Thank you!

**This Week in The Border Chronicle:**

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

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

The border wall near Sasabe, Arizona in 2024. (Photo credit: Melissa del Bosque)

More News from the Border:

The Rio Grande Valley as Heart of LGBTQ+ Resistance and Joy The Texas Observer

Property owners express concern, confusion over Starbase zoning ordinance MyRGV.com

Mexico’s president threatens to sue over SpaceX debris from rocket explosions The Guardian

Pentagon to set up 2 more military buffer zones near border in Arizona and Texas ABC News

National Defense Area established in South Texas Air Force press release

ICE Is Arresting 1,100 Percent More Noncriminals on the Streets Than in 2017 Cato.org

Authors

Melissa del Bosque

Melissa del Bosque is Co-founder and Executive Director of The Border Chronicle. Melissa has written about the U.S.-Mexico border since 1998 for various media outlets, including ProPublica, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Texas Observer, and The Intercept.

Her work has been recognized with numerous U.S. and international journalism awards, including a Gabo Award and the Internacional Rey de España de Periodismo award, as the U.S.-Mexico investigations editor for Lighthouse Reports. In 2020, del Bosque received the RFK Human Rights Journalism Award as part of a ProPublica group reporting project “Inside the Border Patrol.” In 2016, she received the Hillman Prize for her investigative feature “Death on Sevenmile Road” about the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2015, del Bosque’s four-part series with The Guardian on migrant deaths in South Texas won an Emmy and a National Magazine Award.

Del Bosque is also the author of Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty. She has a Master’s in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master’s in Public Health from the Texas A&M School of Rural Public Health, and a Bachelor’s in poetry and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.

In her spare time, Melissa loves to travel, spend time with her family, and explore the Sonoran Desert.

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