The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: May 29

Roller skating across borders, harvesting food and hope with Tucson’s refugee community, and The Border Chronicle in conversation tonight with legendary journalist Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!

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May 29, 2026

The Border Chronicle team had a great night in Douglas, Arizona, on Wednesday. We met with local residents and came away with some very good story ideas to pursue, which you’ll be seeing in your inbox soon. If you’re in Bisbee on June 23rd, join us at the Bisbee Library at 5:30 p.m. where we will be talking about border journalism and host a discussion on issues important to border residents. We want to hear from you about what we should be covering more of, and what’s happening in your community. Also, don’t hesitate to reach out to us at theborderchronicle@protonmail.com

The Border Chronicle team at The Blueberry Cafe in Douglas, Arizona on May 27, 2026. (Photo credit: Brenda Machado)

More Events: Tonight in Tucson! Todd Miller will be in conversation with the legendary investigative journalist Amy Goodman cofounder of Democracy Now! at The Loft. Goodman is touring with the new documentary Steal this Story, Please! about her fearless investigative journalism at Democracy Now! Tonight’s film and Q&A are sold out, but you can catch the documentary at The Loft through June 4th. You don’t want to miss this inspiring film that will fire you up and lift your spirits, during these dark times. We’ll also have a table set up in the lobby at The Loft before the show tonight and tomorrow. Come by and say hi!

This Week in The Border Chronicle:

Spotted in Marfa, Texas, on Memorial Day weekend. (Photo credit: Melissa del Bosque)

More News from Across the Border Region:

Troubled ICE medical provider remains at Camp East Montana despite outcry El Paso Matters

Esclavos en la Sierra Tarahumara La Verdad Juárez

Protect Our People: A Workshop of Rights & Witnessing Trucha RGV

How Not to Abolish ICE The Boston Review

Inspections Find Conditions at California ICE Detention Centers Are Getting Worse Beyond the Borders

‘They’re torturing me’: ICE uses solitary confinement to scare people into self-deporting Arizona Daily Star

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Melissa del Bosque

Melissa del Bosque is Co-founder and Executive Director of The Border Chronicle. Melissa has written about the U.S.-Mexico border since 1998 for various media outlets, including ProPublica, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Texas Observer, and The Intercept.

Her work has been recognized with numerous U.S. and international journalism awards, including a Gabo Award and the Internacional Rey de España de Periodismo award, as the U.S.-Mexico investigations editor for Lighthouse Reports. In 2020, del Bosque received the RFK Human Rights Journalism Award as part of a ProPublica group reporting project “Inside the Border Patrol.” In 2016, she received the Hillman Prize for her investigative feature “Death on Sevenmile Road” about the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2015, del Bosque’s four-part series with The Guardian on migrant deaths in South Texas won an Emmy and a National Magazine Award. 

Del Bosque is also the author of Bloodlines: The True Story of a Drug Cartel, the FBI and the Battle for a Horse-Racing Dynasty. She has a Master’s in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin, a Master’s in Public Health from the Texas A&M School of Rural Public Health, and a Bachelor’s in poetry and Creative Writing from San Francisco State University.

In her spare time, Melissa loves to travel, spend time with her family, and explore the Sonoran Desert.

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