Amplifying vulnerability: State policy and the consolidation of a migratory chokepoint on Mexico's southern border Over the past decade, Tapachula, a peripheral city located on Mexico's southern border, has emerged as one of the most significant territorial bottlen…

Amplifying vulnerability: State policy and the consolidation of a migratory chokepoint on Mexico's southern border www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One small cat and 178 kilometers: longest-known displacement movement by an endangered ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) Successful protection of imperiled species and habitats is often hindered by a lack of current information. Ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) is a wide-ranging and elusive species that is federally endanger...

One small cat and 178 kilometers: longest-known displacement movement by an endangered ocelot theryanotes.mastozoologiamexicana.com/index.php/th...

Graphic card with text: "As the state has turned to the communicative capacity of penal power because it has lost the ability to cohere political order and define the benefits of citizenship through other means. To understand the Detention Reengineering Initiative, we must understand how our authoritarian present is a product of failed attempts to manage political crises through crimmigration in the past."

As ICE vastly expands its detention portfolio, analytical responses must consider the history of failed crimmigration, so as to reorient towards a different future. Read the latest blog post by @hallamtuck.bsky.social 👇

blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

“The physical manifestation of this digital integration rises twenty floors above downtown Juárez in Torre Centinela, a surveillance tower visible from El Paso that begins operations in April 2026. This centralized command post will monitor 13 cities”

A Mexican Surveillance Giant Is Now Operating at the U.S. Border Grupo Seguritech operates Mexico's $1.27 billion surveillance network across 188 command centers, now sharing border data with U.S. agencies.

“Grupo Seguritech has secured $1.27 billion in Mexican government contracts since 2012. It “now operates Mexico’s most sophisticated monitoring network—and they’re sharing that data with U.S. border agencies through a quiet agreement” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Anatomy of human rights violations at the Indo-Bangladesh borderlands This study investigates the factors affecting the violations of human rights at the borderlands between Bangladesh and India. It sheds a new light on the question: What are the main reasons behind ...

I found this piece from 2019 while searching for a lit review: “The continued culture of border killings hampers the bilateral relationships between India and Bangladesh by creating a climate of fear and mutual mistrust.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Nonsurvivable": Today's heatwaves have surpassed our bodies' ability to stay cool A new analysis reveals the deadly potential of six extreme heat events, especially for elders.

Extreme heat is already creating “nonsurvivable” conditions for humans in heatwaves that have killed thousands and likely many more, according to new research that warns people are more susceptible to rising temperatures than first thought.

New AI surveillance towers from General Dynamics deployed along U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego The towers come in two sizes — 120 and 180 feet — and can monitor six to 10 miles of terrain depending on the landscape.

New AI surveillance towers from General Dynamics deployed along U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/04/02/n...

Why Canon's cutting-edge sensor tech may not cascade down to photographers Canon has announced its second specialist camera based around a SPAD sensor, but don't expect to see it in EOS any time soon.

Canon releases box camera “designed for applications such as nighttime border surveillance and maritime monitoring over long distances,” tech.yahoo.com/cameras/arti... likely to be used in “integrated fixed tower (IFT) systems” and “ground and aerial systems”
canon-cmos-sensors.com/applications...

Exclusive Documentary Short Premier: What Do Argentina's Disappeared Have to Do With Unidentified Migrants on the U.S.-Mexico Border? A Q&A and exclusive screening of a documentary short by award-winning filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz.

What do Argentina's disappeared have to do with migrants dying at the U.S.-Mexico border?

More than you think.

Watch the exclusive documentary short premiere + Q&A with filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz🦂🔗:

‘Egypt’s guests’ in danger: Refugees face increasing arrests, deportations Egypt is systematically arresting and deporting thousands of refugees, regardless of their legal status, in a widening crackdown that has created a climate of terror and left many afraid to leave…

Egypt is systematically arresting and deporting thousands of refugees, regardless of their legal status, in a widening crackdown that has created a climate of terror and left many afraid to leave their homes. Available in RU, AR and PT-BR.

US satellite firm Planet Labs announces blackout on war on Iran images Company says move amid US-Israel war on Iran comes after a request from the US government.

“Satellite imaging company Planet Labs has said it will indefinitely withhold visuals of Iran and the ⁠region of conflict in the Middle East to comply with a request from United States President Donald Trump’s administration” www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

Satellite Companies Restrict Journalists’ Access to Images from the Iran War Going forward, two major commercial satellite imagery companies will apply a two-week hold on all images in the companies’ image archives.

Satellite Companies Restrict Journalists’ Access to Images from the U.S.-Israel war on Iran gijn.org/stories/sate...

Border Communities Know ICE’s Impunity All Too Well - Latino News Network Border communities have endured decades of violent immigration enforcement, where agents operate with near-total impunity and rarely face accountability for misconduct.

Collaborative Scholar Affiliate, Estefanía Castañeda Pérez, Ph.D., authored an op-ed that was published on Monday by the Latino News Network analyzing impunity for misconduct by immigration authorities informed by her research.

latinonewsnetwork.com/community/ic...

Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained.

That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

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“How many migrants perish while crossing the Canada-US border? To what extent, if at all, are US and Canadian officials tracking border-crosser deaths in this region? What can we learn from media reporting on this issue?” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Border Afterlives | UAPress

“Soto argues that these deaths should be understood as structural homicides and that the forensic neglect they face is a form of ongoing violence.” uapress.arizona.edu/book/border-...

ASU professor details the haunting consequences of migrant deaths in 'Border Afterlives' For a while now, ASU professor Gabriella Soto has been working to count migrant deaths at the border in Pima County. Soto knew the work they were doing was important, but in 2011, they realized just h...

ASU professor Gabriella Soto details the haunting consequences of migrant deaths in her book 'Border Afterlives' www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

The DNA Archive Built to Identify the Border’s Missing Has Vanished The Colibrí Center for Human Rights was a vital link between families and their missing loved ones. But now it's gone dark.

www.theborderchronicle.com/the-dna-arch...

Sharing this newly published investigation, coreported by me and a colleague. The DNA database crucial in migrant identification in the borderlands for years has itself gone missing. Co-published by @theborderchronicle.bsky.social and @highcountrynews.org

The DNA Archive Built to Identify the Border’s Missing Has Vanished The Colibrí Center for Human Rights was a vital link between families and their missing loved ones. But now it's gone dark.

The Colibrí Center's DNA database, built to identify migrants who died crossing the border and reunite families, has gone dark since fall 2024. A board member says it may be destroyed. Hundreds of families are left without answers.

In collaboration with @highcountrynews.org 🔗🦂

A DNA archive critical to identifying missing migrants has itself gone missing - High Country News A key database of migrant DNA has gone missing, after the organization that started it shut down.

A key database of migrant DNA has gone missing, after the organization that started it shut down.

Thank you for attending the 50th Association for Borderlands Studies annual meeting in New Mexico! We look forward to seeing you all next year for the ABS World Conference, which will take place between Spain and Portugal!

Inside Trump’s Plan to Finish Walling Off the Rio Grande Valley Even sites once protected by Congress, including a butterfly refuge and a historic church, are slated for fencing funded by the “one big beautiful bill”—while the river itself is transformed by a floa...

Congress approved $47B for border barriers in the Rio Grande Valley. A butterfly refuge, a historic chapel, and family homes are now in the wall's path. Residents who fought this before are gearing up to fight again.

Read the full story copublished with @texasobserver.org 🔗🦂:

L'écologie de guerre totale | Le Grand Continent En accélérant la trajectoire impériale des États-Unis, Donald Trump vient-il de saboter les infrastructures fossiles globales ? Si Trump est une ruse de la raison éco-terroriste — quelle histoire pou...

49/ "When a crystal vase is struck, it always fractures along lines of fragility that were previously invisible but are revealed by the impact. The vulnerabilities are there, waiting to be made visible.."

Brilliant on the conjuncture by @picharbonnier.bsky.social legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/03/2...

The Trump Administration Is Spending Billions to Militarize the Border The border-industrial complex has become even more profitable since the start of Donald Trump’s second term.

“For most of its history, in fact, the Border Patrol has been a place where America’s wars come home—where war-surplus machinery is repurposed for domestic policing.” www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Here's the website for the Oahu Rapid Response Coalition for ICE monitoring in Honolulu Orrcoalition.org

ABS Conference 2026 program cover for March 25-28 with photo of Albuquerque

March 27 10:45am at the Association for Borderlands Studies Conference 👉 Border policing and the weaponization of the Sonoran Desert in southern Arizona: modeling the geography of deterrence, & next steps for research (@geoffboyce.bsky.social, Dan Martínez, and me)
absborderlands.org/meetings/abs...

ICE's controversial 287(g) program gives local cops the power to do immigration enforcement. The program has a long history of sowing distrust and exacerbating radicalized policing.

So why did a K-12 school district sign up for it? 🧵

Well that’s a horrifying extra layer to this.

General Says US Would Create “Camp” at Gitmo for Cubans Fleeing Trump Blockade “The way these military goons jump right in to ‘accommodate’ atrocity is beyond the pale,” said a critic.

As the Trump administration sows chaos with a crushing fuel blockade of Cuba, a general told Congress that the military will “set up a camp” at Guantánamo Bay to detain those who try to flee the humanitarian crisis inflicted by the United States.