The Border Chronicle

The Border Chronicle The Border Chronicle is a news outlet founded by veteran border journalists Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller.

The border isn’t just a line on a map anymore, it’s everywhere.Mizue Aizeki breaks down how the U.S. homeland security s...
06/05/2026

The border isn’t just a line on a map anymore, it’s everywhere.

Mizue Aizeki breaks down how the U.S. homeland security state has expanded far beyond physical borders through surveillance tech, data brokers, biometrics, and now a new category of threat, the anti-tech extremist anyone who dares organize against data centers or unchecked AI expansion.
ICE has tapped into Medicaid and IRS databases to track immigrants. Local police are being funded to act as immigration agents. And the same logic that once targeted Arab and Muslim communities after 9/11 is now being applied more broadly, to activists, migrants, and communities fighting for their futures.

This is the first article in the Everywhere Border Project series, which documents how tech-enabled border enforcement shapes lives across the Americas. Going back to normal isn’t the answer, the harms predate this administration.
Read full story at theborderchronicle.com linked in comment below.🔗🦂

🖼️Digital Art created by Elisamaría

06/02/2026

🎙️ What does it mean to make and curate art at the crossroads of two nations? In the latest episode of The Border Chronicle podcast, Gabriela Rangel, executive director of Tucson’s Museum of Contemporary Art and a Venezuela-born curator who has worked at institutions from Houston to Buenos Aires, sits down with Caroline Tracey for a wide-ranging conversation on art, place, and urgency. Rangel reflects on how the concept of Latin American art didn’t actually originate in Latin America, the necessity of politics in art, and what it means to live and work in the Sonoran Desert borderlands. As she puts it, “water, ecosystems and immigration these are issues that contemporary art has adopted in their concerns... Contemporary art is about what’s happening in the present.”

Listen to the new podcast episode at theborderchronicle.com linked in comment below. 🔗🦂

On Friday, the Border Chronicle co-founder Todd Miller joined the legendary Amy Goodman, co-founder of Democracy Now! fo...
06/01/2026

On Friday, the Border Chronicle co-founder Todd Miller joined the legendary Amy Goodman, co-founder of Democracy Now! for a live post-screening Q&A of Steal This Story, Please! — a documentary that asks a question we think about every single day, what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power?

Watching Amy’s three decades of fearless reporting distilled into one film was a reminder of why independent journalism isn’t optional, it’s essential.

At the Border Chronicle, we’re doing our part. No pressure from advertisers. Just rigorous, on-the-ground reporting about one of the most consequential and misunderstood regions in the world.

The stories that get silenced don’t disappear, they just go unreported. We’re here to make sure that doesn’t happen.

Support independent journalism. Support the Border Chronicle. 🦂🔗 https://www.theborderchronicle.com/donate/ linked in bio.

“We’re like Romeo and Juliet. We have lands that are totally in conflict… but despite that, we connect and find common g...
05/28/2026

“We’re like Romeo and Juliet. We have lands that are totally in conflict… but despite that, we connect and find common ground.”

In September 2024, over 80 roller skaters and skateboarders from Tucson and Sonora gathered in San Carlos, Guaymas for the first large-scale binational roller skate event in the region, organized by the three women-led groups: , , and .

What started as a University of Arizona art project in April 2024 grew into a full-fledged binational sisterhood. A cash-per-trick competition, bioluminescent beach swims, cumbia dancing, and a whole lot of encouragement echoing across a skate park, proof that the Sonoran Desert belongs to one connected community, no matter what a 20-foot steel wall tries to say.

“I believe our binational community makes us stronger on both sides. We are like two organisms working together, helping each other and becoming stronger.”

Unlike Romeo and Juliet, this love story doesn’t end in tragedy. 🌵🛼

Full story by Susan Barnett () at theborderchronicle.com linked in comment below.🦂🔗

“Ishkash*taa” is a Somali word meaning working cooperatively together, chosen by the refugee teenagers who helped found ...
05/26/2026

“Ishkash*taa” is a Somali word meaning working cooperatively together, chosen by the refugee teenagers who helped found this Tucson organization in the early 2000s.

The Ishkash*taa Refugee Network harvests citrus from 150+ Tucson properties each season, splitting food between refugee families and local food banks, pantries, and tribal communities. They serve around 200 individuals, impacting roughly 1,000 people through harvesting, gardening, art, and a monthly African drum circle.
But the families they serve are under growing pressure, refugees have lost access to SNAP benefits, and green card and citizenship processes are on hold.

“Once you get to know someone personally who is a refugee, you’re less likely to fall for misinformation or demonizing immigrants as a group.” — Amelia Natoli, Development Director

Read the full Q&A at the borderchornicle.com linked in comments below.🦂🔗

At the Border Security Expo in Phoenix on May 5, DEA Administrator Terrance Cole described the U.S. removal of Venezuela...
05/21/2026

At the Border Security Expo in Phoenix on May 5, DEA Administrator Terrance Cole described the U.S. removal of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro as a "flawless operation," and warned the world that "anybody, anyplace, anytime can be removed." Todd Miller was in that ballroom, surrounded by surveillance drones, biometric tech, and arms vendors, and he's connecting the dots. The Trump administration is reviving the war on terror, extending the U.S. border deep into Latin America and into the interior of the country itself. From the Maduro extradition to airstrikes in the Caribbean to Border Patrol blocking journalists from the Arizona border line, a permanent war logic is taking hold.
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En el Expo de Seguridad Fronteriza en Phoenix el 5 de mayo, el director de la DEA, Terrance Cole, describió el operativo contra el expresidente venezolano Nicolás Maduro como un "operativo sin fallas," y advirtió al mundo que "cualquier persona, en cualquier lugar, puede ser derrocada." Todd Miller estuvo en ese salón, rodeado de drones de vigilancia, tecnología biométrica y vendedores de armas, y conecta los puntos. La administración Trump está reviviendo la guerra contra el terror, extendiendo la frontera de EE.UU. hacia América Latina y hacia el interior del propio país. Desde la extradición de Maduro hasta ataques aéreos en el Caribe y agentes de la patrulla fronteriza bloqueando el acceso de periodistas a la línea fronteriza en Arizona, una lógica de guerra permanente se está imponiendo.

🦂Read the full investigation at theborderchronicle.com linked in comment below | Lee la investigación completa en theborderchronicle.com (enlace en los comentarios)🔗

Harshaw, Arizona, once a small silver mining town 15 miles north of the Mexican border, no longer exists. In 1953 it was...
05/19/2026

Harshaw, Arizona, once a small silver mining town 15 miles north of the Mexican border, no longer exists. In 1953 it was absorbed into the Coronado National Forest. Residents who never held title to their land were classified as squatters and forced out. By 1960, the census recorded zero inhabitants.

What remains is a hillside cemetery. Every gravestone bears a Spanish name.

The people buried there were miners and their families, some who crossed from Mexico when the mines opened in the late 1800s, others born on this side of the border. They worked the same shafts as white miners but earned the Mexican wage, a deliberately lower pay rate. That disparity fueled the 1906 worker uprising at the Cananea copper mine just south of the border, considered a precursor to the Mexican Revolution. In 1917, 75 miles away in Bisbee, the Phelps Dodge Corporation loaded 1,300 striking miners into railroad cars and left them in the desert.

Photographer David Bacon spent time among the graves at Harshaw, where iron crosses, hand-punched metal markers, and inscribed stones tell the history that official records largely omit.

📷 Photo essay by David Bacon ( )at the borderchronicle.com linked in comment below🔗🦂

📰🦂Come meet the team behind the stories.Join us in Douglas on Wednesday, May 27 at 6 p.m. for a conversation with The Bo...
05/14/2026

📰🦂Come meet the team behind the stories.
Join us in Douglas on Wednesday, May 27 at 6 p.m. for a conversation with The Border Chronicle team, the country’s only independent news outlet covering the entire U.S.-Mexico border region. We’ll be talking border journalism, community coverage, and why local, independent reporting matters now more than ever.

📍 The Blueberry Cafe — 600 G Avenue, Douglas, AZ

Whether you’re a longtime reader or just curious about what we do, we’d love to see you there.

Questions? Reach us at [email protected]

🔗 🦂Learn more at theborderchronicle.com

A 20-story surveillance tower is about to go live in Ciudad Juárez, and it’s sharing intelligence with U.S. and Texas la...
05/14/2026

A 20-story surveillance tower is about to go live in Ciudad Juárez, and it’s sharing intelligence with U.S. and Texas law enforcement.

In our latest podcast episode, investigative journalist José Olivares takes us inside Torre Centinela, the Sentinel Tower, a massive, dystopian structure that looms over both El Paso and Ciudad Juárez and is operated by a private Mexican corporation called Seguritech.

José toured the tower and dug through thousands of government records. He found a surveillance system growing rapidly with little oversight, and one where Juárez residents are voluntarily connecting their home cameras to the network in exchange for a promise of safety. But is that promise being kept?

We also discuss the recent scandal involving two CIA agents who died during an anti-drug operation with state law enforcement in Chihuahua.

🎙️ 🦂New episode out now at the borderchronicle.com linked in comment below.

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