The Borderlands’ Lost Third Country
Mexican writer Álvaro Enrigue’s new novel, Now I Surrender, is an epic about the U.S. and Mexico’s joint erasure of Apachería.
Weekly Roundup
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.
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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.
Todd Miller
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.”
Melissa del Bosque
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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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