The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: February 27

A protest against the buoy barrier in the RGV, a tense situation with military at the end of the wall in Arizona, and deported vets seek justice.

The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: February 27
The buoy barrier protest in the Rio Grande Valley on February 26. (Photo credit: Pablo de la Rosa)

This Week in The Border Chronicle:

At the End of the Wall: A Reporter’s Notebook
Walking from a blasted mountain top--a planned site for new border wall construction--to a makeshift military camp along the border in a remote part of southern Arizona led to a tense yet revelatory moment.
On Deported Veterans and Life after Deportation: A Q&A with Robert Vivar
“I understand what people are going through because I lived it myself.”

The Border Chronicle in the News:

Arizona Mirror reporter Jerod MacDonald-Evoy interviews with KJZZ about the hidden surveillance in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands done in collaboration with The Border Chronicle.

Todd interviewed on the Geopolitics & Empire podcast on CBP, ICE, and border militarization and the creation of a police state.

More News from Across the Border:

‘Testing Grounds’: How the U.S.-Mexico Border and Honduras Help Explain Immigration Enforcement Today Latino USA

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol is dead Investigative Post

Big Bend Border Wall Big Bend Sentinel

Politicians harp that deporting migrants who have committed crimes makes the United States safer. El Mencho’s life story offers a deadly alternative. Immigration Law Unhinged

During State of the Union, Trump Promoted More Deportations. One Couple’s Story Highlights the Human Toll. Lookout

Officials detain and cite volunteers documenting ICE arrests at San Diego federal building Daylight San Diego

Democrats outraged at US military’s downing of CBP drone near Mexico border The Guardian

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