A podcast discussion about security as U.S. health care gets cut to fund the most gargantuan border enforcement bill ever passed. How do we create a counterforce to this?

Melissa and Todd venture into live video, this month's expert on border militarization, saving the Rio Grande, a border wall debacle, Alma Guillermoprieto, and photos of the Tucson May Day march.

In a lively conversation, The Border Chronicle founders grapple with the last three months of militarization and surveillance, and ponder what’s to come.

EFF has built up a robust focus on digital civil liberties at the U.S.-Mexico border, including challenging the warrantless and suspicionless searches of electronic devices and the massive increase in...

Immigrant rights advocates and clergy hold in vigil in Juárez in memory of the 40 migrants who died in the 2023 migrant detention shelter fire.

Skylark Labs has announced the deployment of its advanced Scout MK II surveillance system along the U.S.-Mexico border. The platform is now operational and undergoing evaluation in live field conditio...

EFF has built up a robust focus on digital civil liberties at the U.S.-Mexico border, including challenging the warrantless and suspicionless searches of electronic devices and the massive increase in...

If you read one thing this week … read about the border industrial complex.

In COMPLEX, artist David Taylor documents border surveillance and the “most significant architectural legacy we have created in the last 20 years.”

It didn’t take long for the border and immigration enforcement industry to react to Donald Trump’s reelection. On November 6th, as Bloomberg News reported, stock prices shot up for two private prison companies, GEO Group

The transition from Biden to Trump through the lens of a booming border industrial complex, bipartisan consensus, and changing climate.

It didn’t take long for the border and immigration enforcement industry to react to Donald Trump’s reelection. On November 6th, as Bloomberg News reported, stock prices shot up for two private prison companies, GEO Group

In Trump’s executive orders it’s possible to see how he could build an authoritarian infrastructure under the guise of protecting Americans from an invasion.

A new report by InSight Crime finds links links between restrictive U.S. border policies and the growth of a multi-billion-dollar smuggling economy in Mexico.

In Trump’s executive orders it’s possible to see how he could build an authoritarian infrastructure under the guise of protecting Americans from an invasion.

If you want to know about what’s to come on the border—what to expect, how it got to this point, and ways to fight back—put everything down right now and give this a listen.

Donald Trump was a spectacularly weak president during his first term. All signs point to him being spectacularly weak during his second.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 271,484 immigrants last fiscal year, marking the highest level of deportations since 2014, according to a newly released annual report.

In this reflection and Chihuahua travelogue, I converse with Mexican fishers and farmers about drought, climate change, the incoming U.S. president, the border, and new ways of being in the world.

Original Reporting and Analysis from the U.S.-Mexico Border. Click to read The Border Chronicle, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.

A special podcast with Lighthouse Reports about a year-long collaboration with The Washington Post and El Universal in Mexico published this week.

Mutual aid isn’t enough, says Zachary Mueller, political director for the nonprofit America’s Voice. We need a new coalition that studies the Right’s strategy, and builds a viable counterstrategy.

The prolific author and photographer describes powerful instances of worker resistance and how undocumented labor will be a serious thorn in Trump’s side.

Republican-led states have deployed their police agencies to the border, heeding Texas governor Greg Abbott’s call to arms. With Trump’s mass-deportation plans looming, what role will they play?

Trump's first run "was all about building the border wall and contriving a fictional ‘bad hombre’ bogeyman to fear and loathe." This time the "tactical dehumanization" has an extra "rabid vigor."

Trump's first run "was all about building the border wall and contriving a fictional ‘bad hombre’ bogeyman to fear and loathe." This time the "tactical dehumanization" has an extra "rabid vigor."