Border barriers on the river could be fatal during floods, say Laredo landowners, a reflection on desert narratives and the U.S.-Mexico border, and become a sustaining member of The Border Chronicle today, get some cool, new merch, and help us hold those in power accountable.
As federal officials fast-track billions in border wall construction and floating buoy barriers, local leaders and residents say they’re in the dark, and fear the worst.
On the Spanish thriller Sirāt, the concept of Saharanism, and our reckoning with narratives about the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
Border barriers on the river could be fatal during floods, say Laredo landowners, a reflection on desert narratives and the U.S.-Mexico border, and become a sustaining member of The Border Chronicle today, get some cool, new merch, and help us hold those in power accountable.
The Trump administration is rapidly deploying billions to private contractors to build border walls and floating buoy barriers on the Rio Grande. All of this is happening with little communication with border residents, and the waiving of numerous federal laws that protect us and the environment. In the case of this week's story by Michael Gonzalez, a reporter based in South Texas, the Trump administration is not even requiring studies to be done on the flooding impact that walls and buoys will have on communities on both sides of the Rio Grande, in direct violation of the international treaty with Mexico and endangering countless lives along the river. You can read more about this in Gonzalez's excellent piece published Thursday, which he reported from Laredo, Texas.
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This April and May, you can volunteer to document plants and wildlife on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border in the Border BioBlitz a community science effort to record as many species as possible 15 kilometers north or south of the international border. Check out this press release from the San Diego Natural History Museum to learn more.
Were you wondering what was going on with Mexico's right wing? And what Argentina's disappeared have to do with the U.S.-Mexico border? You've come to the right place.
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.
A year of military buildup on the border, walling off the Rio Grande Valley, and Caroline Tracey's debut book launch in Tucson.
A pioneering asylum lawyer in El Paso leaves a legacy of lives saved, an immigration judge fired by the Trump administration asks, 'What's next?' at the border, and The Border Chronicle's, Caroline Tracey, has a new book out!
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