What Does Security Really Mean? Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller Analyze the First Seven Months of Trump A podcast discussion about security as U.S. health care gets cut to fund the most gargantuan border enforcement bill ever passed. How do we create a counterforce to this?

What Does Security Really Mean? 🦂

In this new podcast, Melissa and Todd talk about the notion of "border security" as U.S. health care gets cut to fund the most gargantuan border enforcement bill ever passed. How do we create a counterforce to this? 🦂

Border Chronicle: Weekly Roundup May 2 Melissa and Todd venture into live video, this month's expert on border militarization, saving the Rio Grande, a border wall debacle, Alma Guillermoprieto, and photos of the Tucson May Day march.

We tried something different for this week's Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup. A live video roundup with @mdelbosque.bsky.social & @memomiller.bsky.social

Let us know what you think! 🦂👋

State of the Border 100 Days after Trump: A Podcast with Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller In a lively conversation, The Border Chronicle founders grapple with the last three months of militarization and surveillance, and ponder what’s to come.

New on The Border Chronicle podcast🦂👂

It's been a volatile, fast moving 100 days in Trump 2.0 at the border. @memomiller.bsky.social and I cover a lot of territory from water scarcity in the Rio Grande to Trump turning the border in New Mexico into a military installation. Listen at the link below🦂

Livestream: Life and Migration Under Surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico Border EFF has built up a robust focus on digital civil liberties at the U.S.-Mexico border, including challenging the warrantless and suspicionless searches of electronic devices and the massive increase in...

🚨 @eff.org launches an exhibit on border surveillance at the Angel Island Immigration Station historical site in San Francisco Bay!

Join us TODAY for a live discussion with @pedroconsafos.bsky.social @memomiller.bsky.social @maassive.bsky.social @mguariglia.bsky.social
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Hats off to @elotroalex.bsky.social for creating this map of abductions of students by ICE.

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Vigil marks second anniversary of Juárez detention center fire that killed 40 migrants Immigrant rights advocates and clergy hold in vigil in Juárez in memory of the 40 migrants who died in the 2023 migrant detention shelter fire.

Last Thursday immigrant rights advocates from both sides of the border commemorated the 2nd anniversary of the tragic fire in Ciudad Juárez that left 40 migrants dead. Two years later the case remains in impunity and the head of Mexico's migration remains in office.

My story for the El Paso Times

AI-powered surveillance system deployed to US-Mexico border Skylark Labs has announced the deployment of its advanced Scout MK II surveillance system along the U.S.-Mexico border. The platform is now operational and undergoing evaluation in live field conditio...

AI equipped border surveillance tech “capable of real-time threat detection” of [checks notes] people and animals walking in the desert defence-blog.com/ai-powered-s...

Livestream: Life and Migration Under Surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico Border EFF has built up a robust focus on digital civil liberties at the U.S.-Mexico border, including challenging the warrantless and suspicionless searches of electronic devices and the massive increase in...

In conjunction with the exhibit, we'll host a free livestream panel discussion at 1 p.m. PDT on Thurs. April 3 on “Life and Migration Under Surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico Border” with @petramolnar.com, @pedroconsafos.bsky.social, @memomiller.bsky.social and others. RSVP below!

I wrote a piece for this collaboration between @inkstickmedia.com & @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, on JD Vance's anti-migrant attacks on Europe and the reality that Washington & the EU are both committed to a deterrence policy that condemns refugees & migrants to increasingly deadly journeys.

MiSC scholar Jenna Loyd was recently featured in a Q&A with @memomiller.bsky.social in @theborderchronicle.bsky.social. In the article, Jenna discusses the context and history of migrant detention at Guantánamo. 🧵👇

Critical State: Mass Deportations? They’re Already Here If you read one thing this week … read about the border industrial complex.

The latest installment of Inkstick's Critical State newsletter, this week recommending:

- @memomiller.bsky.social at the Border Chronicle

- @emilywither.bsky.social at @thedialmag.bsky.social

- @malichudis.bsky.social & @chrjkb.bsky.social at @wearesolomon.bsky.social

- @prx.org & more

Have you watched @aljazeera.com's FREE documentary by journalist Antony Loewenstein called The Palestine Laboratory? It features our very own 2024 Fellow @monashtaya.bsky.social and MTM's @petramolnar.com as well as friends like @memomiller.bsky.social @theborderchronicle.bsky.social!

America's Gulag In COMPLEX, artist David Taylor documents border surveillance and the “most significant architectural legacy we have created in the last 20 years.”

For @theborderchronicle.bsky.social, I wrote about photographer David Taylor’s exhibition COMPLEX and what it can teach us about keeping watch on border surveillance: www.theborderchronicle.com/p/americas-g...

The Mass Deportation Handoff, Biden to Trump It didn’t take long for the border and immigration enforcement industry to react to Donald Trump’s reelection. On November 6th, as Bloomberg News reported, stock prices shot up for two private prison companies, GEO Group

@memomiller.bsky.social at TomDispatch today: What if, in reality, there weren’t two distinctly opposed and bickering visions of border security in the Biden and Trump eras, but two allied versions of it?
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The Mass Deportation Handoff The transition from Biden to Trump through the lens of a booming border industrial complex, bipartisan consensus, and changing climate.

New in The Border Chronicle 🦂

The Mass Deportation Handoff by @memomiller.bsky.social

The transition from Biden to Trump through the lens of a booming border industrial complex, bipartisan consensus, and changing climate.

The Mass Deportation Handoff, Biden to Trump It didn’t take long for the border and immigration enforcement industry to react to Donald Trump’s reelection. On November 6th, as Bloomberg News reported, stock prices shot up for two private prison companies, GEO Group

Facing the Deportation Industry
by @memomiller.bsky.social
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Trump’s “Invasion” Theatrics: Act 1 In Trump’s executive orders it’s possible to see how he could build an authoritarian infrastructure under the guise of protecting Americans from an invasion.

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In Trump’s executive orders it’s possible to see how he could build an authoritarian infrastructure under the guise of protecting Americans from an "invasion."

Does U.S. Immigration Policy Contribute to Organized Crime in Mexico? A new report by InSight Crime finds links links between restrictive U.S. border policies and the growth of a multi-billion-dollar smuggling economy in Mexico.

We know a lot about the relationship between immigration policy and human smuggling. Worth revisiting this study that finds links between restrictive U.S. border policies and the growth of a multi-billion-dollar smuggling economy in Mexico.

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Trump’s “Invasion” Theatrics: Act 1 In Trump’s executive orders it’s possible to see how he could build an authoritarian infrastructure under the guise of protecting Americans from an invasion.

"In short, the border is literally on fire, but the Trump White House opted to divert much-needed federal resources to produce a video about 'border security.'" (@theborderchronicle.bsky.social is indispensable especially right now)

“I really think the Border Patrol’s intending to be Donald Trump’s, for lack of a better word, Stasi, or secret police.”

What’s Gonna Happen on the Border in 2025? A Podcast with Erika Pinheiro If you want to know about what’s to come on the border—what to expect, how it got to this point, and ways to fight back—put everything down right now and give this a listen.

New in The Border Chronicle 🦂

What’s Gonna Happen on the Border in 2025? A Podcast with Erika Pinheiro, director at @alotrolado-org.bsky.social

There are few people with as nuanced and comprehensive understanding of the policies and politics at the border. Check out the full podcast here:

Welcome Caroline! @cetracey.bsky.social

Got our work cut out for us this year.

President Trump Will Not Be as Powerful as He Seems Donald Trump was a spectacularly weak president during his first term. All signs point to him being spectacularly weak during his second.

This is a good corrective by @coreyrobin.bsky.social to some of the doom-mongering hype about Trump being able to pull of all his worst plans. Yes he will do a lot of damage and hurt, but he is weaker than we think and that means resistance can also make a difference. jacobin.com/2024/12/trum...

Biden carried out the highest level of deportations since 2014, new report says | CNN Politics Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 271,484 immigrants last fiscal year, marking the highest level of deportations since 2014, according to a newly released annual report.

Biden carried out the highest level of deportations since 2014, new report says

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I think about my day on the water as the poet (John O’Donohue) contends that the violation of beauty is a fundamental element of today’s global crisis. “When we awaken to the call of beauty,”he writes, “we become aware of new ways of being in the world.” www.theborderchronicle.com/p/esta-cabro...

Gerardo Delgado from El Toro, Chihuahua shows me his meager catch after six hours on the drying (dying?) Lake Toronto. More than half of his community has already left, many to the north. www.theborderchronicle.com/p/esta-cabro...

Miguel: “Va a correr sangre antes de correr agua,” blood will flow before water does. Camargo, Chihuahua. www.theborderchronicle.com/p/esta-cabro...

Thanks Petra!

“Está Cabrón”: An End-of-Year Reflection on a World at the Crossroads In this reflection and Chihuahua travelogue, I converse with Mexican fishers and farmers about drought, climate change, the incoming U.S. president, the border, and new ways of being in the world.

"When we awaken to the call of beauty,” [Irish poet John] O’Donohue writes,“we become aware of new ways of being in the world.”

Beautiful reflection by @memomiller.bsky.social @theborderchronicle.bsky.social on borders, ecocide, pecan trees and watermelons
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