Jones discusses why the Border Patrol can racially profile people, why it can operate in a 100-mile zone from all U.S. borders, and how it “can look a lot like an authoritarian militia force.”
Check it out here in The Border Chronicle.
The Officer of the Future: Facial Recognition and the Border-Industrial Complex
“The face that God gave you the day you were born will be your passport.”
Read the article here in The Border Chronicle.
Reporter’s Notebook: The Border Creates Tragedy by Design
The border, its dread and its promise: a photo essay from Nogales, Sonora, on the day after the tragedy in San Antonio.
Check it out here in The Border Chronicle.
Cementing a State of Exception in the Borderlands: How a Supreme Court Ruling Impacts the Tohono O’odham Nation
In the “Constitution-mangled zone” in the borderlands, Tohono O’odham say Supreme Court ruling fortifies an occupation.
Read the article here in The Border Chronicle.
Border Hacker: A Podcast with Levi Vonk
A rare in-depth look inside a migrant caravan and Mexico’s amped-up border enforcement, along with scathing revelations about humanitarian networks on the Mexican migrant trail.
Listen here at The Border Chronicle.
The Adulation of the Gun: How Border Militarization Fuels America’s Gun Obsession
From Uvalde, Texas, to Portland, Oregon, Border Patrol’s BORTAC is part of a growing homeland security army.
Read this piece here at The Border Chronicle.
The CAFTA Template: Understanding Central American Migration in a Time of Dispossession, Repression, and Environmental Crisis
Expert Jorge Cuellar discusses how countries remain exploited “tributary societies to the US,” while that “sacred policy—the Central American Free Trade Agreement—has remained untouched.”
Read this interview here at The Border Chronicle.
Reporter’s Notebook: Entering the Season of Death at the Border
A deadly Border Patrol shooting, a binational group rejuvenating the desert, and the wall as a “modern-day cross,” plus other observations and photos from a trip to the Douglas borderlands.
Read here at The Border Chronicle.
Climate Disaster, Displacement, and Divides: A Podcast with Amali Tower
“Now more than three times as many people are displaced by climate disasters and extreme weather events than conflict or violence.”
Listen here at The Border Chronicle.
The Border-Industrial Complex in the Biden Era: Robotic Dogs and Autonomous Surveillance Towers Are the New Wall
First, it was the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) vehicles speeding along on the road in front of our campsite. Then it was the Border Patrol’s all-terrain vehicles moving swiftly on a ridge above us. I was about 10 miles north of the border with Mexico, near Peña Blanca Lake in southern Arizona, camping with my six-year-old son and some other families. Like fire trucks racing to a blaze, the Border Patrol mobilization around me was growing so large I could only imagine an emergency situation developing.
I started climbing to get a better look and soon found myself alone on a golden hill dotted with alligator junipers and mesquite. Brilliant vermilion flycatchers fluttered between the branches. The road, though, was Border Patrol all the way. Atop the hill opposite mine stood a surveillance tower. Since it loomed over our campsite, I’d been looking at it all weekend. It felt strangely like part of French philosopher Michel Foucault’s panopticon — in other words, I wasn’t sure whether I was being watched or not. But I suspected I was.
Read more here as originally published by TomDispatch and The Border Chronicle.