The Border Chronicle

Confused by competing messages about Title 42 , and ever-changing immigration policies at the border? Our invited border experts will have some answers. Please join us this Thursday, April 21 for a discussion thread beginning at 10 am PT/ 11 am MT/ 12 pm CT/ 1 pm ET. Todd will host the discussion which will arrive in your email inbox at 10 am Pacific Standard Time (because we don’t do daylight sav...

If you are confused by competing messages about Title 42, and the ever-changing policies at the border, please join us on Thursday, April 21 for a discussion thread. (We still have to confirm some things, but tentatively we will start at 10 am PT/ 11 am MT/ 12 pm CT/ 1 pm ET, so please pencil us in!) Invited experts will include people from the National Immigrant Justice Center , the Florence Immi...

Otto Santa Ana, a linguist, once analyzed more than 6,000 of Donald Trump’s tweets, and his political speeches, for a Supreme Court case to defend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program . He’s also parsed the speeches of former Arizona Senator Russell Pearce, who sponsored SB 1070 , as evidence for a constitutional and civil rights lawsuit against Pearce’s anti-Latino “show...

A note to readers that we will be taking next week off for a spring break (aka our kids will be out of school). We will be back starting on March 22 and will have a whole host of new stories, reporting, podcasts, analysis, and discussion threads for your reading and listening pleasure in the months to come. As always, we are happy to hear any of your ideas! On January 29, 2019, immigration attorne...

Happy Tuesday everyone! A quick note to stay tuned for a new discussion thread coming next Tuesday, March 1, beginning at 9 a.m. (MST). Look for the email in your inbox. We’ll answer any questions you might have from 10:00 a.m. to noon, and leave the thread open all day for your comments, suggestions, then circle back in the afternoon to answer more questions. Todd and I are very much looking forw...

A quick reminder to readers that in case you missed it on Tuesday, please check out Melissa’s vivid recounting of what is happening on the south Texas border and at the National Butterfly Center. I suggest reading all the way to the absurd and intense confrontation at the end. On September 9, 2020, Tohono and Hia Ced O’odham members Amber Lee Ortega and Nellie Jo David were at the sacred Quitobaqu...

The Border Chronicle is excited to debut its new sonic ID today in our interview with journalist Patrick Strickland. A big abrazo to our audio editor Lilly Clark for creating this for us. Let us know what you think! Also, please join us for a new discussion thread on smart borders this Thursday, January 27 at 11:30 PT/12:30 MT/1:30 CT/2:30 ET. We will be joined by a group of people who have done e...

The Border Chronicle is happy to announce that we will have a new discussion thread on smart borders on Thursday, January 27 at 11:30 PT/12:30 MT/1:30 CT/2:30 ET. We will be joined by a group of people who have done extensive work on border technology and its impacts including the Deputy Director of the Immigrant Defense Project Mizue Aizeki , Geographers Geoffrey Boyce and Samuel Chambers , and j...

Dear Friends, It's the holiday season, the time of year when we take note of what we are grateful for, and ready ourselves for time with family and friends. We here at The Border Chronicle are grateful for you—our readers—and we thank you for your support. If you haven't yet signed up to be a paid subscriber, thank you for doing so today. By becoming a paid subscriber you make sure that quality bo...

Until July, Stephanie Leutert served in the Biden administration as a senior adviser for migration policy at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration. Leutert moved to Washington, DC, with the idea of helping end some of the worst, inhumane immigration policies implemented by the Trump administration, including the Migrant Protection Protocols program, often ref...

Some books not only challenge our preconceptions but also change our worldview. One of these is Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in U.S. and Mexican Culture , by the Juarense author and scholar Oswaldo Zavala . In the following audio interview, which you can also download like a podcast (see link above), he explains what he means by the provocative title of his book, first published in...

With today’s post, we inaugurate our first audio Q&A. The Border Chronicle is excited to launch into an audio series of in depth interviews with compelling borderlanders, like today’s guest Amy Juan of the Tohono O’odham Nation. Amy works for the International Indian Treaty Council and is a longtime cultural activist who grew up on the border in the town of Newfield on the Nation. In the 19th...