The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: January 23

Welcome to the new Border Chronicle! And to our first weekly roundup on our new site. We won’t be doing a live video today, as we’re still working out some changes on the site. But they will be back soon! I also want to give a big thanks to the Outpost publisher’s collective for guiding us through the migration to the Ghost platform and to the folks there for being so helpful.

 We’re very proud of our growth to a full-fledged media outlet. It’s been a long haul since we launched in September 2021, and it was just Todd and me for many years. Last year, with the help of grant funding, we were able to bring Pablo de la Rosa and Caroline Tracey on board, which has been amazing. We’ve also hired Brenda Machado for audience engagement and José Olivares as podcast editor. Pablo Morales has been our copy editor since day one.

Since we launched as the only independent outlet covering the entire U.S.-Mexico border region, our mission has been to provide you with quality on-the-ground reporting with context from across the U.S.-Mexico border region. We also provide arts and culture coverage that reflects the richness, resilience, and nuance of border life. Through our podcasts, online discussions and written work, we’ve strived to make The Border Chronicle a platform for shared ideas and solutions that break out of the “crisis” narrative and counter the disinformation that harms our communities and the people migrating through the borderlands.

We hope to continue to expand our coverage, so if you’ve been a free subscriber for a while and haven’t signed up for a paid or founding subscription, we would really appreciate your support now at this crucial moment of growth. We thank you very much for subscribing and supporting our work. We are almost entirely subscriber-funded, so we can’t do this without you!

 And now on to the Semana that was…

This Week in The Border Chronicle:

How New Mexico Learned to Love Its Ephemeral Waters

Rollbacks to the Clean Water Act may have affected the borderlands more than any other region. States are stepping up—but there’s still more to do.

The Border ChronicleCaroline Tracey

An Autopsy of the Biden Years at the Border: A podcast with Andrea Flores

For years, Flores has served as an immigration policy advisor to Democrats at the national level, including President Biden. She talks about what went wrong, and what Democrats should be doing now.

The Border ChronicleMelissa del Bosque

More News from the Border:

Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, memo says Associated Press

Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar, brother of Rep. Henry Cuellar, indicted on federal fraud charges The Texas Tribune

Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas Inside Climate News

Minnesota detainees denied visitors at Fort Bliss following 3rd death at ICE facility El Paso Matters

‘No hate, no fear’: Tucsonans protest ICE, mark 1st year of Trump’s 2nd term Tucson Sentinel