The Border Chronicle

12/18/2025

“Re-invision No More Division:” A Reflective Photo Essay of 2025.

A visual journey through 2025 at the U.S.-Mexico border, from flowers on the wall honoring José Antonio to cows crossing the Rio Grande, seeking reciprocity, beauty, and a different way forward beyond division.

For the full photo essay, click the link in comment below🦂🔗.

12/17/2025

As we approach the end of 2025, we at The Border Chronicle thank you for reading and subscribing. We are very grateful.💛🏜️

Support the only independent media outlet covering the entire U.S.-Mexico border. Meet our reporters and help us grow in 2026.🦂

Support the only independent media outlet covering the entire U.S.-Mexico border. Meet our reporters and help us grow in 2026.

12/16/2025

In early December the Trump administration dynamited a portion of the Coronado National Memorial to create gravel for a border wall through one of North America’s last pristine prairies in the San Rafael Valley in southern Arizona.

“There are things you can replace and others you cannot. The intrinsic value of wild, open landscapes cannot be measured—it can only be felt”, writes Myles Traphagen on the destruction

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12/12/2025

🕺🏻It’s FRIDAY & our WEEKLY ROUNDUP IS HERE🗞️! Click below and checkout what we have been up to this week🦂📰🎙️:

A DACA recipient in South Texas says life under the Trump mass deportation dragnet is "pure trauma." And a former immigration judge, fired in November, talks about the future of immigration courts.

12/11/2025

New Episode “This Immigration Judge Loved His Job. But Then He Was Fired: A Podcast with Jeremiah Johnson” is Out NOW! 🎙️🎧

Johnson was an immigration judge in San Francisco, and on November 21, he was fired without explanation.

“I didn’t even have time to print out the letter before the system was shut down and I was locked out,” he said.

To listen to the full episode, click on the link in bio🦂🔗.

12/09/2025

Under Trump, DACA recipients struggle with new uncertainty.

Since 2012, undocumented people brought to the U.S. as children have been protected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy.

A status that no longer makes them feel secure.

“I always look back in my rearview mirror, and I just get that anxiety of maybe getting stopped by law enforcement,” says Mateo Hernandez, a DACA recipient.

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12/04/2025

A River without Water: A Photo Essay by Eduardo Tamalantes.

Eduardo Tamalantes is a Chihuahuan photographer who has been documenting the extreme drought that has left the Rio Conchos almost dry, and with insufficient water for families to fish or raise crops.

“…the combined impacts of deforestation and lack of rain have caused the Río Conchos and its tributaries to dry out for months,” he states.

To read the full photo essay, click the link in comment below🔗🦂

12/03/2025

ICYMI: As scrutiny narrows this week on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordering lethal missile strikes of boats, which have killed at least 82 people, Jonathan Blitzer, author and reporter for The New Yorker speaks with The Border Chronicle’s Melissa del Bosque about his recent article on the killings, and Trump cabinet members pushing for these strikes including Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio.

To watch the full podcast episode, click the link in comment below:🦂🔗

12/02/2025

A Q&A with author on art, the apocalypse, Interstate 10, and their new poetry book, Southwest Reconstruction.

“There are things that have been kind of staring me dead in the face about identity and about my relationship to the lands that I live on, the lands that allow me a livelihood,” Gutierrez reflects.

To read the full interview, click the link in comment below.🔗🦂

11/26/2025

It’s a short publishing week here at The Border Chronicle🦂🗞️

We are thankful to you for supporting the only independent border-wide publication owned by journalists. Plus, read a new CJR article about us, and listen to our podcast interview with Laura St. John.💛🤎

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We are thankful to you for supporting the only independent border-wide publication owned by journalists. Plus, read a new CJR article about us, and listen to our podcast interview with Laura St. John

11/25/2025

Very thankful for this write up by Lucy Schiller for the Columbia Journalism Review on the work we are doing at The Border Chronicle. As I say in the piece “there is no real working revenue model for journalism right now, so it can feel incredibly daunting, possibly even insane, to say you’re building a media outlet during this volatile and difficult period in our history."

We are truly thankful to our readers and podcast listeners for supporting The Border Chronicle, and I'm very thankful to be working with such talented journalists including fellow cofounder Todd Miller and Pablo De La Rosa, Caroline Tracey, Brenda Machado, Jose Olivares and Pablo Morales.

And if you are able, please consider supporting our work with a paid subscription or donation. We still have a long way to go to become sustainable, which means a living wage for our reporters and editors. The link to support us is in the comment section. Mil gracias!!

A group of veteran journalists cover “the backdrop for national politics and rhetoric.”

11/25/2025

New podcast episode is out NOW! 🎙️

In this new episode, legal director, Laura St. John, offers insight into misconceptions about detention under the Trump administration, and provides a new way to understand and challenge them.

“And again, it’s very troubling, because what we are seeing right now in detention is a further lack of oversight….,” she warns.

To listen to the full episode, click the link in comment below🦂🔗