The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: April 10
We’ve got new merch! Pedro Rios documents the gradual walling off of Friendship Park in San Diego, and Amy Juan on long-distance running and resilience for the Tohono O’odham plus more from across the borderlands.
Happy Friday! The Border Chronicle kicked off its first-ever Spring fundraiser yesterday as part of a new national initiative called Local News Day, to make the case for quality, community-based journalism. Since we launched in 2021, Todd and I have had the goal of reaching at least 2,000 paid subscribers. This would cover the salaries for two reporters. We’re currently at 1,200 paid subscribers, so if 800 of our readers were to sign up for an annual subscription today at the affordable rate of $59 a year, we could become sustainable, and make a living wage. So now there’s two ways to give, either through donating or (preferably) subscribing.
Also, new merch alert! For anyone who signs up today for $59 a year we’ll send you a brand new Border Chronicle tote bag, in black or cream color. (Alien six-pack abs not included). For anyone upgrading their subscription to sustaining founder at $250 annual, we’ll send you one of our brand new Border Chronicle hats in black (trucker style) or khaki green and a tote bag! Keep the sun out of your eyes and look cool at the same time!
This Week in The Border Chronicle:
More News from Across the Border:
The Plight of the Monarch: All along their journey, from my hometown suburb to their winter home in Mexico, the iconic butterflies face human-made threats. The Texas Observer
A Mexican surveillance giant you’ve never heard of is now watching the U.S. border Rest of World (Written by our very own, José Olivares, Border Chronicle podcast editor)
US is ‘using Mexico as a garbage sink’ leading to ‘toxic crisis’, UN expert says The Guardian
El Paso police, sheriff report decline in serious crime in 2025 El Paso Matters
Podcast: The story of how a beaver made an El Paso wetlands park home El Paso Matters
She Funded the Machine That Took Them. Rep. Monica De La Cruz voted to triple ICE’s budget. Then it came for the mariachi kids she’d paraded around Washington. Migrant Insider
Border Report: The Cross-Border Effort to Assist Victims of Violence: The Consul General of Mexico in San Diego and the San Diego District Attorney are working together to support survivors of domestic violence and human trafficking. Voice of San Diego
ICE moved detainees out of an overcrowded Mesa facility before congressional visit Arizona Mirror
Author
Related Articles
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: September 4
The Border Chronicle launches its new poetry series today, resistance halts the border wall in Lochiel and Big Bend for now, and the Maasai face climate change, plus immigration policy is maternal health policy.
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 28
Our new website is official, a Mexicali author wins a prestigious award, and a podcast on how to use Wall Watch, plus more!
The Border Chronicle Weekly Update: August 21
Countering negative narratives with an event that honors interconnectedness and subverts the border in Agua Prieta/Douglas, and a contested hotel–in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley–that is of great importance for Mexican American civil rights.