The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: May 1
Happy May Day! An audio deep dive into the National Defense Areas and a human rights archeologist speaks on the politics of haunting and border deaths.
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The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: March 20
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!
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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!
This week in The Border Chronicle:
“Whoever Saves a Life, Saves a World”: On the Death of Carlos Spector, El Paso Immigration Attorney
He saved numerous lives by winning Mexican asylum cases that many said would be impossible to win.
Melissa del Bosque
What’s Next?
An immigration judge fired by the Trump administration searches for meaning at the southern border.
Jeremiah Johnson
More News from Across the Border:
Insurrectionist Brunch
2020 election plot conspirators, Project 2025, and the plan to deploy military within the United States – in the name of “border security.” Cochise Regional News
Fisher Sand & Gravel awarded $1.2 billion Presidio County wall contract Big Bend Sentinel News
Denouncing Into the Void: The Dismantling of Internal Oversight and Accountability at DHS WOLA/KBI
Agents of Chaos: Unpacking the Actions of Border Patrol Agents Across the US Bellingcat
Tucsonans grapple with victims' accounts of sex abuse by César Chávez The Tucson Sentinel
South County Report: Is Immigration Policy Dampening City Budgets? Voice of San Diego
El Paso leaders approve city’s first climate action plan. What happens now? El Paso Matters
In his words: How Gregory Bovino became a face of Trump’s mass deportations and ended his career The Associated Press
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