Santa Ana’s Last Stand
Congress repeatedly shielded the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge from the border wall. Now, construction has begun—and an irrigation district lawsuit may be the only option left to buy time for lawmakers to act.
Border and Immigration
Migrant Deaths Are a Feature—Not a Bug—of U.S. Immigration Policy
Governor Greg Abbott says he can make coming to the U.S. more miserable than being smuggled in the back of a tractor-trailer.
Queering the Border
100 Ways to Cross the Border chronicles the life and creativity of LGBTQ+ performance artist and writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña.
U.S. Immigration Policy Is to Blame for the Horrific Mass Death in San Antonio
Whether related to border crossing or detention, every single migration-related death is preventable.
Immigrant Moms Get Rare Win in Long-fought Family Detention Case
The state Supreme Court weighed in on a fight to stop the state from licensing detention centers as childcare facilities.
Uvalde and the Border Security Scam
In South Texas, an international military apparatus lords over Latino residents. It took one man mere minutes to make a mockery of it.
Title 42’s Long Tail of Pain
More than 1.8 million asylum-seekers have been expelled under the pandemic-era statute, which allows the Centers for Disease Control to declare a health crisis and bar immigrants from entering the country.
The San Antonio Border Security Expo Is Decadent and Depraved
Robot dogs, cocktails, a shooting competition, and more taxpayer money than you can shake a drone at.
Greg Abbott’s Wasteful Border War Is Draining the State’s Coffers
The cost, scope, cruelty, and failure of the governor’s immigration dragnet far exceed that of any of his predecessors.
Guardian of the Guard
Jason Featherston, who has devoted more than half his life to the National Guard, is now the leading critic of Governor Greg Abbott’s border surge, Operation Lone Star.