What a week! On Thursday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that law enforcement can search cell phones at airports and land borders without a warrant or even reasonable suspicion, further eroding our constitutional rights. In this week’s Border Chronicle, the Everywhere Border project reports on CBP One and CBP Home being one in the same in a digital border infrastructure that reaches well inside the United States. But it’s not all bad news. In Thursday’s podcast, we celebrate five years in existence as a small but mighty independent newsroom. Caroline Tracey, joins me and Todd Miller to talk about stories that have been meaningful to us, why a media outlet devoted to the U.S.-Mexico border with a regional focus is important, and what’s in store for our next chapter. Spoiler alert: There’s a party involved! — Melissa del Bosque

This Week in The Border Chronicle:

A Continuum of Control, from CBP One to CBP Home

Although they appear to be opposites, CBP One and CBP Home are two apps of the same digital border system that manage and control migrants regardless of the presidential administration. Read here.

The Border Chronicle Turns Five. What’s Next?

Founders Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller join editor and reporter Caroline Tracey to revisit the newsroom’s beginnings and the stories that have defined it, and to celebrate its next chapter. Listen and watch here.

More News from Across the Border Region:

3 border wall protesters arrested by Cochise County deputies The Tucson Sentinel

Final defendant in La Barbie Case Sentenced to Nearly 19 Years The Laredo Morning-Times

Big Bend landowners file suit over border wall The Big Bend Sentinel

Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’ 404 Media

Mexico authorizes entry of 139 US troops for training operations El Pais

Con dos años de atraso y envuelta en opacidad, inauguran la Torre Centinela en Ciudad Juárez La Verdad Juárez

Seguritech subcontrató a 37 empresas para la operación de la Plataforma Centinela La Verdad Juárez

US judge blocks DHS from threatening prosecution against man who criticized ICE The Guardian