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 6
Just abolishing ICE misses the bigger point, and a deep look at the history of cotton in the borderlands.
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This Week in The Border Chronicle:
Abolishing Just ICE Misses the Point: A Podcast with Melissa and Todd
In the spirit of broadening the analysis beyond ICE, Border Chronicle cofounders Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller discuss the leading role the U.S. Border Patrol has played in violent operations across the country. We analyze how these shocking immigration sweeps—such as the one in Minneapolis that killed
Melissa del Bosque
The Lives That Cotton Made
Cristina Rivera Garza’s new book, Autobiography of Cotton, traces family history through the borderlands’ cotton industry.
Caroline Tracey
The Border Chronicle in the News:
More News from Across the Border:
Trump’s border-czar takeover does little to calm Minneapolis tensions: ‘The agenda is still the same’ The Guardian
Border czar says feds will withdraw 700 law enforcement personnel from Minnesota immediately CBS News
New footage shows Border Patrol shooting in Portland from distance OPB
Democrats demand reforms to Homeland Security over immigration operations Al Jazeera
Text messages show Steve Bannon bragged to Jeffrey Epstein about secretly building private border wall near El Paso El Paso Matters
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are New York Times
These Companies—Palantir, AT&T, Deloitte—Have The Biggest ICE Contracts As DHS Funding Under Fire Forbes
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