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Deaths Uncovered in Laredo Show the Ongoing Toll of Border Militarization

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

by Jason Buch

Keep Reading

Texas’ Fight Against the Screwworm Will Be Nasty and Brutish

by Christopher Collins

Under Operation Lone Star, Texas State Police More than Doubled Their Drone Fleet

by Francesca D’Annunzio

The Eyes of Chihuahua

by Francesca D’Annunzio

Nov 09, 2021

Along the U.S.-Mexico Border, Journalism Is an Act of Resistance

by Lise Olsen

Sep 02, 2021

The River, At Night

Where the Rio Grande narrows, migrants take their chance.

by Ivan Armando Flores

Aug 30, 2021

The Final Frontera

Elon Musk wants to go to Mars. Money, regulations, and public beaches are no object.

by Gus Bova

Aug 26, 2021

Resisting the Allure of Innocence

As the Biden administration works to reunite families who were separated at the border, it’s time to write a new narrative about who deserves protection.

by Gabriel Daniel Solis

Jul 27, 2021

For Greg Abbott, All the Border’s a Stage

But political theater can still get people hurt.

by Gus Bova

Jul 01, 2021

Undocumented Immigrants Continue to Be Expelled From the U.S. Under Title 42 COVID-19 Measures

The Trump-era public health order was issued by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in 2020 and calls for rapid expulsion of migrants and asylum seekers without the right to trial, citing COVID-19.

by Ursula Muñoz-Schaefer, The Big Bend Sentinel

border wall Mar 10, 2021

‘Not Celebrating Yet’: South Texans Wait for Biden to Cancel Trump’s Wall

The president’s pause on wall construction leaves questions unanswered in Texas.

by Gus Bova

Feb 09, 2021

In ‘At the Ready,’ Latinx High Schoolers Train to Be Border Patrol Agents

A new documentary tells one story of the border through three conflicted young Texans’ job prospects, and the result is emotional, relational, and hard to categorize.

by Nicky Yeager

Photo illustration of After the Last Border Jul 30, 2020

‘After the Last Border’ Reveals the Human Cost of Trump’s Draconian Immigration Policies

A new book from Austin writer Jessica Goudeau shows that U.S. refugee resettlement policy has always shifted with the political winds of change.

by Michael Sandlin

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