A newly constructed wall built with old, salvaged material in South Texas is probably illegal; it's also costing twice as much as previous walls. What are taxpayers paying for, exactly?

Good morning, Border Chronicle subscribers! We have an exciting invitation to share with you this week: on October 22, we are hosting a fifth birthday

Frank-Vitale says we must stop "seeing migration as the problem.” Instead, she insists, “the problem … lies in all the attempts to stop human mobility, to contain, detain, and deport people.”

How a prolific Mexican writer, all but unknown in the United States, became the patron saint of some of this year’s most important borderlands books.

A federal court rules that law enforcement can search cell phones at the border without reasonable cause or a warrant, CBP One and CBP Home are one in the same, and a podcast on our fifth anniversary.

Tano Tijerina, who prominently switched parties after Trump's 2024 inroads in South Texas, is trying to cash in on political connections while also casting himself as the insurgent outsider.

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.

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.

How the 9/11 attacks transformed the borderlands, the Tohono O'odham fight back against the border wall, and saving Mexicali's lagoons, plus poetry! How the 9/11 attacks transformed the borderlands, t...

The irreparable harm that has already been done, says tribal chairman Verlon Jose, you can feel it, hear it, in the people.

The New River flows north across the US-Mexico border, where its lagoons provide vital habitat for hundreds of birds. For a decade, a community organization has worked to protect these crucial waterwa...

The Border Chronicle launches its new poetry series today, resistance halts the border wall in Lochiel and Big Bend for now, and the Maasai face climate change, plus immigration policy is maternal hea...

Could solutions to climate woes such as drought be found in the freedom of mobility? This on-the-ground report from the Kenya-Tanzania border examines that question and more. Could solutions to climat...

Research in Texas confirms what border communities already know: that harsh immigration policies harm maternal health. As border-style enforcement spreads across the United States, its consequences fo...

Our new website is official, a Mexicali author wins a prestigious award, and a podcast on how to use Wall Watch, plus more!

Elma Correa’s award-winning Donde termina el verano follows two girls from the working-class outskirts of Mexicali whose friendship, guilt and memories are shaped by a childhood disappearance and the ...

In this week's podcast, Melissa del Bosque and Geographer Dugan Meyer explain how the Border Chronicle's new project, Wall Watch, helps residents document and understand the massive construction proj...

Countering negative narratives with an event that honors interconnectedness and subverts the border in Agua Prieta/Douglas, and a contested hotel--in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley--that is of gre...

There is a reckoning with history happening at an old hotel with a horrific past and the RGV's first and only civil rights museum.

A binational gathering shows that the borderlands community seeks peace and unity, not a manufactured war zone.

As DHS gaslights border communities, help document the reality on Wall Watch, our new community powered map for border wall construction, and a podcast from the resistance in Lochiel, Arizona, where p...

A vivid depiction of what has been happening during the last eight weeks of resistance against border wall construction in southern Arizona’s San Rafael Valley.

Community-powered tracking of US/Mexico border wall construction, surveillance technology, and infrastructure.

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

Bulldozing has started in the iconic Big Bend National Park, and protestors try to save the last of 200-year old cottonwood trees in Arizona as the border wall advances, plus we launch our community m...

Worried about the future of democracy in the United States? Look to Indigenous histories; they have much to teach us about the struggle between liberty and empire.

Worried about the future of democracy in the United States? Look to Indigenous histories; they have much to teach us about the struggle between liberty and empire.

A new book tells the scandal-ridden tale of Sonora’s toad-smoking neo-shaman.

Do you have questions about the recent buoy debacle on the Rio Grande? Our reporting has you covered, plus an important new hire at The Border Chronicle, and our new project Wall Watch.

As floodwaters swept hundreds of one-ton border buoys downstream, international bridges closed, commerce slowed, and officials struggled to get answers from DHS about a project advancing despite local...

As floodwaters swept hundreds of one-ton border buoys downstream, international bridges closed, commerce slowed, and officials struggled to get answers from DHS about a project advancing despite local...

Hundreds of massive orange buoys staged for a controversial DHS floating barrier project broke free near Eagle Pass and are now drifting toward Laredo, threatening bridges, commerce, drinking water su...

Hundreds of massive orange buoys staged for a controversial DHS floating barrier project broke free near Eagle Pass and are now drifting toward Laredo, threatening bridges, commerce, drinking water su...

Hundreds of massive orange buoys staged for a controversial DHS floating barrier project broke free near Eagle Pass and are now drifting toward Laredo, threatening bridges, commerce, drinking water su...

In February, the country broke an ominous record: over 68,000 people were being held in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more than ever before.

As immigrant families face detention, shrinking legal protections and the threat of deportation, Camp Hope offers children a rare chance to play, heal and dream. One former camper is headed to an oper...

Border grassroots organizing is winning in July; Who pays the price for Brownsville's tech and industrial boom? And Tijuana Art Week and NAFTA's lasting influence on Baja's landscape. Plus more!

“The people we’re finding now dying on the U.S. side of the border are the people who could not wait.”

Three men who were in the vehicle alongside Lorenzo Salgado Araujo are contesting the Department of Homeland Security’s account of the fatal shooting.

A road trip through Baja California reveals how free trade, migration, and border policy have reshaped Tijuana's landscape, and why the uncertain future of the USMCA invites new questions about what c...

County leaders say tax abatements attract jobs. But some residents argue the incentives enrich billion-dollar corporations while they shoulder the costs of growth, pollution, strained public resources...

County leaders say tax abatements attract jobs. But some residents argue the incentives enrich billion-dollar corporations while they shoulder the costs of growth, pollution, strained public resources...