The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: March 27

This week in The Border Chronicle:

A War Zone, Minus the War: One Year Into the Military Buildup of the U.S.-Mexico Border

An investigation into how President Trump’s emergency declaration along the southern border expanded military power, blurred legal lines, and helped spread the use of military-grade technology.

The Border ChronicleSonner Kehrt

Inside Trump’s Plan to Finish Walling Off the Rio Grande Valley

Even sites once protected by Congress, including a butterfly refuge and a historic church, are slated for fencing funded by the “one big beautiful bill”—while the river itself is transformed by a floating barrier.

The Border ChronicleMichael Gonzalez

More News from Across the Border:

Senate agrees to fund DHS, except ICE and CBP, in bid to end extreme airport delays NBC News

Why a private company is investigating rapes at an ICE detention center instead of the sheriff Cal Matters

San Diego woman says her credit card information was stolen while she was in ICE custody Daylight San Diego

Gregory Bovino’s Final Days: Harsh Words and Few Regrets New York Times

SCOOP: Pima County Sheriff’s Office Collaborated With Border Patrol Despite Claims It Doesn’t, Lawsuit Alleges Lookout

Supreme Court rejects appeal from online citizen journalist over her arrest in Texas PBS

Please join The Border Chronicle's own Caroline Tracey for the launch of her debut book Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History in Tucson on Saturday from 5:00pm to 7:00pm at Slow Body Beer.

"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."