A pioneering asylum lawyer in El Paso leaves a legacy of lives saved, an immigration judge fired by the Trump administration asks, 'What's next?' at the border, and The Border Chronicle's, Caroline Tracey, has a new book out!
An immigration judge fired by the Trump administration searches for meaning at the southern border.
He saved numerous lives by winning Mexican asylum cases that many said would be impossible to win.
A pioneering asylum lawyer in El Paso leaves a legacy of lives saved, an immigration judge fired by the Trump administration asks, 'What's next?' at the border, and The Border Chronicle's, Caroline Tracey, has a new book out!
What a week it's been, with the New York Times' devastating revelations about César Chávez, the continuing war in Iran, and a new report revealing that the speed with which American democracy is being dismantled "is unprecedented in modern history."
Ugh.
But we do have some good news. Border Chronicle arts & culture and environmental reporter/editor, Caroline Tracey, launched her new book Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History this week. A synopsis:
"In Salt Lakes, Tracey travels the world documenting these extraordinary vanishing lakes and the people dedicated to saving them. As she chronicles the decline of the lakes, due to climate change, she also experiences dramatic changes in her own life and conception of self. Running parallel to Tracey's environmental journey is an intimate, human one: her story of finding queer love and building a home in a world fast being remade by ecological crises."
You can buy Caroline's new book Salt Lakes on our Border Chronicle Bookshop page, a small percentage of the proceedings also go to The Border Chronicle. Thank you for supporting writers in the borderlands!
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The personal, financial, and environmental costs of a border wall in Big Bend, locals revive opposition after Trump's announcement of a refinery in Brownsville and the Rio Grande Valley fights back after ICE shooting and raids, plus The Border Chronicle is seeking new paid subscribers!
Buh Bye Kristi Noem, and who the heck is Markwayne Mullin? Trump's new pick for DHS secretary. Plus, an epic novel about the U.S. and Mexico's joint erasure of Apachería, and historian and author Lydia Otero on Tucson's racial and urban history, and more.
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.
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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