The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: April 17 Were you wondering what was going on with Mexico's right wing? And what Argentina's disappeared have to do with the U.S.-Mexico border? You've come to the right place.

This week: Mexico's right wing explained + a powerful doc on Argentina's disappeared & unidentified migrants at the border. Independent journalism like this needs YOU. Subscribe for $59/yr & get a free tote bag! 🦂🌵

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A photo of a tray with three sections empty. One has chopped carrot in it. The other has what can only be described as a posit of brown dog vomit and an insole liner of a sneaker (or a used panty liner from the mid 1700s). The kind of meal that would have you happily tossing yourself overboard.

NEW: Growing fears of food shortages on USS Tripoli & other US ships in the Middle East.

This photo is the kind of meals now being served. It was sent by a sailor to her family.

Families are now trying to send food parcels to the ships.

Full story 👉 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

What’s Wrong with Mexico’s Right Wing? A Conversation with Alex González Ormerod | The Border Chronicle | Episode 132 When Alex González Ormerod, editor of the Mexico Political Economist, started researching his book about the Mexican right wing, he found an odd pattern: many of his interviewees didn’t identify as pa...

Mexico's right wing can't even call itself that. Writer Alex González Ormerod talks with Caroline Tracey about the PAN's failures, the odd liberal label problem, and why democracy needs a real opposition.

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Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Una base de datos menos para los desaparecidos de la frontera norte Durante una década, la organización Colibrí Center for Human Rights ofreció un vínculo vital entre familias de migrantes desaparecidos y sus seres queridos extraviados. Ahora, ¿dónde está?

Hoy sale en @nexosmexico.bsky.social mi traducción al español del artículo sobre la desaparición de la base de datos del Colibri Center for Human Rights, originalmente publicado en @highcountrynews.org y @theborderchronicle.bsky.social. Compártanlo, pls

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Una base de datos menos para los desaparecidos de la frontera norte Durante una década, la organización Colibrí Center for Human Rights ofreció un vínculo vital entre familias de migrantes desaparecidos y sus seres queridos extraviados. Ahora, ¿dónde está?

La base de datos de ADN del Colibrí Center, creada para identificar migrantes muertos en la frontera, ha desaparecido junto con la organización.

Familias que donaron su ADN esperando encontrar a los suyos hoy no tienen respuestas.

Versión en español vía: @nexosmexico.bsky.social

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🦂🔗:

Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law

U.S. Southern Command @Southcom Applying total systemic friction on the cartels. On April 13, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Two male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

Video shows a stationary boat with 2 engines. If there's a cargo hold, it's certainly not a big one.

Also: "applying total systemic friction?" What a sad, bowels-of-the-Pentagon PowerPoint slide nonsense way to say "killing people with no self-defense justification or due process."

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The U.S. killed two more people in the Pacific yesterday. And they suspended the search for the shipwrecked civilian from April 11.

The death toll of these extrajudicial killings now exceeds 170.

“Even after children are released from detention, post-traumatic stress symptoms can be long-term,” experts said.

Liam Conejo Ramos’ parents say he’s struggling following his detention.

“… it worries us a lot that he's no longer as he was before and we're worried this could last a long time.”

Very proud to premier award-winning filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz's documentary short today at @theborderchronicle.bsky.social "What Do Argentina's Disappeared Have to Do With Unidentified Migrants on the U.S.-Mexico Border?

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The Tohono O'odham have run their ancestral land across the US-Mexico border every year since 1995 — as prayer, as ceremony, as resistance.

Amy Juan joins the Border Chronicle podcast to talk about what's at stake.

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The iterations of border walls have transformed a beautiful international park along the San Diego / Tijuana border. I wrote about what I have seen over nearly three decades, and the implications to sacred lands with new border walls planned in the San Diego region. Read more below:

With Trump Threatening a Genocide, Military Must Disobey His Orders, Former Pentagon Officials Say “What President Trump is describing as the destruction of ‘a whole civilization’ would be a war crime, plain and simple.”

EXCLUSIVE: With Trump Threatening a Genocide, Military Must Disobey His Orders, Former Pentagon Officials Say

“What President Trump is describing as the destruction of ‘a whole civilization’ would be a war crime, plain and simple.”

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From a Park to a Prison For more than two decades, San Diego resident Pedro Rios has documented the gradual walling off of the binational International Friendship Park. Now the Trump administration is sealing the rest of Cal...

International Friendship Park, built as a symbol of US-Mexico friendship in 1971, is now flanked by double 30-ft walls & open-air detention sites. $46.5B is funding more. This is not security. It's deterrence with a documented human cost.

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Big Bend Wall Protests Draws Thousands To Texas Capitol The rally in Austin was a major show of bipartisan opposition to the Trump administration's border wall plans.

On Saturday, "thousands of protesters gathered at the steps of the Texas Capitol Saturday to protest against the construction of a border wall through Big Bend, in a show of bipartisan opposition to the White House’s plans."

The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: April 3 A critical DNA database to identify missing migrants vanishes, the US military is closing off the border to Americans, and lots of border wall news.

This week's roundup🗞️: A DNA database that helped families find missing migrants has gone dark, the U.S. military is shutting Americans out of the border, and border wall destruction continues. Stay informed. Support independent journalism — share, donate, and subscribe.

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An important DNA database that has helped hundreds of families find their missing loved ones has vanished. Reporters @cetracey.bsky.social and Gabriel Schivone investigate what happened and also report on how NGOs could get it back, if it hasn't already been destroyed.

Thou Shall Not Pray for Peace: The Bombing of Iran and the U.S.-Mexico Border A few days after the United States launched Operation Epic Fury in Iran, the Border Patrol changed its policy on visits to the border wall, denying a church group permission to pray there, “for their ...

Days after bombing Iran, Border Patrol quietly banned civilians from the Douglas, AZ border wall, blocking a church group mid-prayer. A supervisor cited “escalations worldwide.” No announcement was made.

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Thou Shall Not Pray for Peace: The Bombing of Iran and the U.S.-Mexico Border A few days after the United States launched Operation Epic Fury in Iran, the Border Patrol changed its policy on visits to the border wall, denying a church group permission to pray there, “for their ...

“It is for your safety” the agent explained. Safety from what? Gallegos wondered. The last gunshot she remembered was in 2011, when the Border Patrol killed 19-year-old Carlos LaMadrid as he climbed the wall to return to Mexico… www.theborderchronicle.com/thou-shall-n...

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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.

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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.

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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

A War Zone, Minus the War: One Year Into the Military Buildup of the U.S.-Mexico Border An investigation into how President Trump’s emergency declaration along the southern border expanded military power, blurred legal lines, and helped spread the use of military-grade technology.

Correction: @theborderchronicle.bsky.social and @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social has, as far as I can tell, written the only recent piece on JTF-SB:

JTF-SB just "celebrated" one year of operations inside the United States. Here's their propaganda video

The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: March 27 A year of military buildup on the border, walling off the Rio Grande Valley, and Caroline Tracey's debut book launch in Tucson.

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One year of military buildup on the U.S.-Mexico border, expanded power, blurred laws, military-grade tech. The plan to wall off the Rio Grande Valley, butterfly refuges, historic churches, and a floating river barrier

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A War Zone, Minus the War: One Year Later, Has the Military Really Secured the US-Mexico Border? A look at the military's role at the southern border one year after Trump declared a national emergency and troops were deployed.

Whatever happened to the “national emergency” at the U.S.-Mexico border? @thewarhorsenews.bsky.social and @theborderchronicle.bsky.social found out. Don't miss it 👇

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