The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: February 20
This week's collaboration exposes growing surveillance at the Arizona border, a poet comes to terms with guns and masculinity in Tombstone, and the border comes to Tennessee.
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The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: February 20
This week's collaboration exposes growing surveillance at the Arizona border, a poet comes to terms with guns and masculinity in Tombstone, and the border comes to Tennessee.
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This Week in The Border Chronicle:
Hidden in Plain Sight: Surveillance at the Arizona Border
From hidden license plate readers to AI-powered cameras, federal agents have built a vast monitoring network that stretches deep into Arizona.
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
Gunfights Gunfights Gunfights
Logan Phillips was born in Tombstone, Arizona—a town best known for Old West-themed gunfight tourism. In his new book, Reckon, Phillips explores his relationship to the unusual setting of his childhood through themes of masculinity, history, and land.
Caroline Tracey
More News from Across the Border:
Here's an investigation about the border apparatus coming to the interior in Tennessee. Proud to have led this investigation for Lighthouse Reports. It will be my last as an editor for Lighthouse as I pivot full time to managing The Border Chronicle. But we will definitely be collaborating with Lighthouse in the future. They are an amazing group of journalists! —Melissa
License to Profile: How Tennessee Invited ICE to Target Residents
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement claimed that nearly 200 people, “the worst of the worst illegal criminal aliens” were arrested in Nashville. Records reveal that Tennessee Highway Patrol and ICE racially profiled drivers, and that majority had no criminal record.
A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS Wall Street Journal
This Guardian piece was written by our very talented podcast editor, José Olivares, who is also a first-rate investigative reporter.
Ex-watchdogs warn rush to give power to local police in immigration crackdown risks ‘threat to civil rights’ The Guardian
As part of Trump administration crackdown, prosecutors start charging migrants with trespassing ValleyCentral.com
Republican Lawmaker Wants ICE at Polling Places. That Would Be Illegal. Lookout
Border Wall Closes in on Big Bend Inside Climate News
Activists protest Greg Bovino’s return to El Centro KYMA
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