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The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: February 27 A protest against the buoy barrier in the RGV, a tense situation with military at the end of the wall in Arizona, and deported vets seek justice.

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At the End of the Wall: A Reporter’s Notebook Walking from a blasted mountain top--a planned site for new border wall construction--to a makeshift military camp along the border in a remote part of southern Arizona led to a tense yet revelatory m...

Where Arizona's border wall ends, soldiers readied rifles as humanitarian aid workers approached. Reporter Todd Miller joined the Samaritans near Sycamore Canyon , a wilderness slated for $613M in new wall construction.
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The stories in here of what DHS officers are doing to children who are still making the journey to the southern border to seek protection is appalling. One teenager says he was threatened with "a dog and a stun gun" into signing away his right to seek protection in the United States

On Deported Veterans and Life after Deportation: A Q&A with Robert Vivar "I understand what people are going through because I lived it myself."

Deported veterans arrive in Tijuana with almost nothing. Robert Vivar, himself deported for nearly a decade, helps them rebuild. "I understand what people are going through because I lived it myself." Full Q&A🔗🦂:

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🚨During international “Abrazo” ceremony on the border, community members from sister cities Laredo and Nuevo Laredo deploy giant banners on both sides of Rio Grande declaring: “NO BORDER WALL!”

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The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: February 20 This week's collaboration exposes growing surveillance at the Arizona border, a poet comes to terms with guns and masculinity in Tombstone, and the border comes to Tennessee.

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“From hidden license plate readers to AI-powered cameras, federal agents have built a vast monitoring network that stretches deep into Arizona.” www.theborderchronicle.com/hidden-in-pl... @theborderchronicle.bsky.social

Two issues I'm pondering. One is that you can't move this many people without inflicting tremendous physical and psychological harm on those deported and on society itself. The second is that left in place for years, mass detention on a whole new level will be normalized. It rarely vanishes. [1/3]

“For years, there has been an influx of surveillance technology in and around the communities on the Tohono O’odham Nation, including 10 integrated fixed towers, the backbone of CBP’s virtual wall.

And now there is a new layer of enforcement.”

Hidden in Plain Sight: Surveillance at the Arizona Border From hidden license plate readers to AI-powered cameras, federal agents have built a vast monitoring network that stretches deep into Arizona.

Hidden in traffic cones & highway signs: CBP & DEA have built a covert license plate reader network across Arizona, some 130+ miles from the border, scanning every car on Tohono O'odham land.

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The U.S. killed 11 more civilians in boat strikes yesterday -- 8 in the Pacific Ocean and 3 in the Caribbean.

We're tracking the increasing toll of these extrajudicial killings in a tracker @theintercept.com

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Don’t Let Boat Strikes Fade Into the Background - WOLA The increasing normalization of the U.S. government's illegal boat strikes poses dangers: justifications could extend to other victims in other contexts, and elements of the U.S. military appear to be...

3 more attacks yesterday. 11 dead. Feb is on track to be the 3rd-deadliest month of illegal US boat strikes. We must never normalize this, warns WOLA’s latest podcast with drug policy director John Walsh.

Extrajud. executions per 7 days:
Sep: 4.0
Oct: 10.4
Nov: 4.9
Dec: 9.0
Jan: 0.7
Feb (1-16): 7.9

“The ban forces nine sheriff’s offices in the state to immediately sever agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — including the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office, which had one of the nation’s longest-running 287(g) agreements.”

Gunfights Gunfights Gunfights Logan Phillips was born in Tombstone, Arizona—a town best known for Old West-themed gunfight tourism. In his new book, Reckon, Phillips explores his relationship to the unusual setting of his childhoo...

Interview out today with @cetracey.bsky.social for @theborderchronicle.bsky.social. I'm always grateful for a thoughtful interview with someone who has given the work a close read.

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Gunfights Gunfights Gunfights Poet Logan Phillips was born in Tombstone, Arizona—a town best known for Old West-themed gunfight tourism. In his new book, Reckon, Phillips explores his relationship to the unusual setting of his chi...

What does it mean to grow up where the Wild West is a daily tourist show? Poet Logan Phillips was born in Tombstone, AZ. His new book Reckon explores masculinity, myth & memory. New podcast episode out now.

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The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: February 13 How exactly do we get out of this apocalypse? The artists might just know. And why we need to be concerned about how U.S. military tactics abroad find their way home.

This week: an artist searches for exits from the apocalypse, and why U.S. military tactics abroad always come home.

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How Do We Get Out of This? At Monterrey, Mexico’s MARCO, artist Teresa Margolles seeks an exit from the apocalypse.

Teresa Margolles retrospective at MARCO asks: ¿Cómo salimos? (How do we get out of this?) Her haunting work transforms Mexico's violence into monuments, bloodstained flags, demolished homes, dance floors turned to ruins. A search for an exit from the apocalypse.

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Live Updates: F.A.A. Halts All Flights at El Paso Airport for 10 Days

This is absolutely bizarre and very worrying. The govt. shuts down a major airport at the border in El Paso, Texas, for 10 days for "security reasons."

The War Always Comes Home While menacing Venezuela and Greenland, an “unbound” Trump has unleashed the empire on itself in Minneapolis.

"The War Always Comes Home, " Trump's imperialism turns inward: from Venezuela & Greenland to ICE operations in Minneapolis. The methods perfected abroad now deployed domestically. America's war machine is reconquering itself.

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A beloved workers' rights organizer in Minnesota, known for *successfully* fighting against wage theft and labor trafficking, has been detained by federal immigration agents and is now locked up in New Mexico. His family is calling for his urgent release. inthesetimes.com/article/work...

Trump’s New Tax Law Saved Amazon Billions Breaks for investment and research lowered the company’s payments to the U.S. government.

Trump said he would fight for “forgotten Americans.” I didn’t know that meant Jeff Bezos.

Despite making $89.5 BILLION in profits last year, Amazon paid just 3.1% in taxes.

This is what Republicans’ SNAP & Medicaid cuts were for.

Guess that ‘Melania’ doc really paid off.

The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: February 6 Just abolishing ICE misses the bigger point, and a deep look at the history of cotton in the borderlands.

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This reporter says Border Patrol has been given extensive reach, not surprised by Minnesota deaths Democrats in Washington struck a deal with President Trump to end a prolonged government shutdown and fund the government while they negotiate reforms for immigration officers and the Department of Ho...

Melissa Del Bosque is a longtime border journalist and co-founder of the Border Chronicle — and she told The Show, in that time she’s covered many Border Patrol-related deaths and was not surprised by what happened in Minnesota.

This reporter says Border Patrol has been given extensive reach, not surprised by Minnesota deaths Democrats in Washington struck a deal with President Trump to end a prolonged government shutdown and fund the government while they negotiate reforms for immigration officers and the Department of Ho...

Border Chronicle's Melissa del Bosque on @kjzz.org: Border Patrol sees itself as paramilitary, not law enforcement, operates without body cameras, investigates itself, claims jurisdiction 100 miles from entire U.S. border.

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Abolishing Just ICE Misses the Point: A Podcast with Melissa and Todd In the spirit of broadening the analysis beyond ICE, Border Chronicle cofounders Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller discuss the leading role the U.S. Border Patrol has played in violent operations acr...

Todd Miller and Melissa Del Bosque on why just abolishing ICE missing the point @mdelbosque.bsky.social www.theborderchronicle.com/abolishing-j...

Abolishing Just ICE Misses the Point: A Podcast with Melissa and Todd In the spirit of broadening the analysis beyond ICE, Border Chronicle cofounders Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller discuss the leading role the U.S. Border Patrol has played in violent operations acr...

New Podcast Episode🎙️: Melissa del Bosque & Todd Miller on why abolishing just ICE misses the point. Border Patrol's extraconstitutional powers are expanding nationwide, the border can be anywhere, guns pointed at anyone. But people have had enough.

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The idea of buying commercial warehouses and converting them into detention camps is so viscerally chilling to people that it's being opposed even in places which might otherwise support new prisons.

Martinez: "[I] sat in federal court and watched from 20 feet away as the border patrol agent who attempted to kill me testified at a hearing. Agent Charles Exum—Charles Exum, my attempted executioner was Charles Exum—I hope the government does not consider my use of his name here to be...doxxing."

This reporter says Border Patrol has been given extensive reach, not surprised by Minnesota deaths Democrats in Washington struck a deal with President Trump to end a prolonged government shutdown and fund the government while they negotiate reforms for immigration officers and the Department of Ho...

The Melissa del Bosque tells KJZZ's Lauren Gilger she wasn't surprised by fatal Minneapolis shootings. Border Patrol operates with less oversight than local police, no body cameras, masked agents, self-investigations. A troubling pattern.

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The Lives That Cotton Made Cristina Rivera Garza's new book, Autobiography of Cotton, traces family history through the borderlands' cotton industry.

Pulitzer winner Cristina Rivera Garza's Autobiography of Cotton traces her family through Mexico's 1920s cotton colonies, from Indigenous San Luis Potosí & deportees from Houston. She links agricultural exploitation to today's violence in this borderlands history. Out now! 📖

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