The story of a harrowing, multiday rescue of a stranded Guatemalan man in the frigid February Arizona desert that raises serious questions about the Border Patrol’s search and rescue unit.
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The Border Narrative Machine: A Reflection on a Lost Debate at Yale
I lost the debate, I got hissed at, and I got a dose of humility. More importantly, I got a privileged view of how the national discourse works to shut down alternatives to militarizing the border.
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Reporter’s Notebook: The Crisis Nobody Knows About on the Kenya-Tanzania Border
Reportage from where a private company and state-led border building converge to violently evict people from their ancestral land.
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How the U.S. Border Arrived in Kenya
A look at U.S. border externalization, the death it has caused, and the art of negotiating and resisting borders in Maasailand.
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The Border Industrial Complex Goes Big Time
Last year was the most profitable on record for border contractors, and by all indications there will be more to reap in 2023.
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Dónde Está La Lucha: A Photo Reflection on Rivers and Water at the Texas Chihuahua Border
Join me here on a reflective journey with photos and ponderings in this last post for The Border Chronicle in 2022.
The Border Wall at the End of the World: A Podcast with Jenny Stümer
How apocalyptic mass fantasies stoked by Hollywood and the media help fuel the border industrial complex
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The Right to Stay Home: A Coffee Cooperative Slows Down Displacement
Café Justo offers a border story like no other. It is a story not of walls, drones, and towers, but of international solidarity, and how a community tended to its own migration crisis.
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The Making of the Narco Narrative: A Podcast with Oswaldo Zavala
An examination of official discourse and the cartel narrative, the national security paradigm, and the drug war as a policy of extermination.
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Finding a Solution to Climate Displacement: Time to Divert Border Enforcement Billions into Loss and Damage Finance
On the cusp of COP27, it is time to build solidarity with the increasing millions displaced by climate, not more deadly walls.
I cowrote this piece with Amali Tower. Please read here at The Border Chronicle.