The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: March 27

A year of military buildup on the border, walling off the Rio Grande Valley, and Caroline Tracey’s debut book launch in Tucson.

By Todd Miller

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March 27, 2026

This week in The Border Chronicle:

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

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

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.”

Author

Todd Miller is Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of The Border Chronicle. He is the author of four books that examine border militarization and its externalization, surveillance technology and industry, climate change, and the search for alternatives. His books include Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders (City Lights, 2021) Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (Verso, 2019), Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (City Lights, 2017), and Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security (City Lights, 2014).

Todd’s forthcoming book is a deep examination of water as a border issue in an age of climate-induced heat waves and drought. It will be published by Seven Stories Press in 2027.

Besides The Border Chronicle, articles by Todd have appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, Guernica, TomDispatch, and Al Jazeera English, among other places. He has also authored and co-authored reports on border surveillance, the border industrial complex, and climate change for the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute, where he is a fellow.

Todd’s book Storming the Wall received the Izzy Award in 2018 for “path-breaking and in-depth reporting.” He also received first place in “Community immigration reporting” by the Arizona Press Club in 2013. Todd has a bachelor’s degree in Latin American Studies and Journalism from Prescott College, where he is also an adjunct professor.

In his spare time, Todd likes to travel, read, philosophize, and hang out with his two kids—whether it be going to a dance recital or being a basketball coach.