News and Resources

Beyoncé Isn’t Possible Without Houston. Houston Isn’t Possible Without the Black Diaspora.
Beyoncé’s second visual album, Lemonade, is characterized by foreboding visions of weeping willows, dark bayous, and images of Black women decorated in antebellum garb. It’s an ode to the landscape... Read more
Published on: 2020-09-09
Source: Texas Observer
BNHR, El Paso County and Protect Democracy Filed Petition with U.S. Supreme Court to Demand a Halt on Building of the Southern Wall
The Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR), El Paso County and Protect Democracy organization filed a “cert before judgment” petition with the U.S. Supreme Court today, requesting to review their case to halt the Trump... Read more
Published on: 2020-09-03
Source: Border Network
New Engineering Report Finds Privately Built Border Wall Will Fail
This story was originally published by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans—and engages with them—about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. It’s... Read more
Published on: 2020-09-03
Source: Texas Observer
In Central America, Climate Change Is Driving Families North
AFTER THE SUN crept past its midday seat and started softening into the afternoon, five-year-old Jerlin Sayai Herrera Escobar liked to stand on the little lawn in front of her... Read more
Published on: 2020-08-28
Source: Sierra Magazine
Dispatch From the Border Wall
“When they blast into that soil, it feels like they’re tearing out my chest,” said Jamie LaBreak, a member of the Sycuan band of the Kumeyaay Nation. The afternoon of... Read more
Published on: 2020-08-22
Source: Sierra Magazine
Steve Bannon charged with defrauding donors in private effort to raise money for Trump’s border wall
The president’s former chief strategist was arrested Thursday along with three others.... Read more
Published on: 2020-08-20
Source: Washington Post
The Coronavirus Pipeline
The Coronavirus Pipeline U.S. deportations of migrants have exported COVID-19 to Guatemala and prompted fear, chaos, and a collapse of already fragile health services. By Anna-Catherine Brigida and Morena Pérez... Read more
Published on: 2020-08-12
Source: Texas Observer
Supreme Court won’t intervene in last stages of border wall construction projects
A lower court had said the use of military funds was unlawful, and environmentalists had asked for construction to stop.... Read more
Published on: 2020-07-31
Source: Washington Post
GOP coronavirus bill replaces money for Pentagon projects Trump raided for border wall
The legislation includes hundreds of millions for military projects whose funding the administration had canceled.... Read more
Published on: 2020-07-28
Source: Washington Post
Border Patrol Violently Assaults Civil Rights and Liberties
In the past week, unidentified federal officers in camouflage fatigues, labeled only “police,” abducted people off the streets of Portland in unmarked vehicles and threatened the “Wall of Moms” standing... Read more
Published on: 2020-07-24
Source: ACLU
Environmentalists ask Supreme Court to stop funding of border wall construction
Sierra Club wants justices to step in after a lower court finds fund transfers unlawful.... Read more
Published on: 2020-07-22
Source: Washington Post
How Long Can You Hide a Dead Body in a Prison Cell?
This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for The Marshall Project’s newsletter, or follow them... Read more
Published on: 2020-07-22
Source: Texas Observer
In ‘Crooked Hallelujah,’ Kelli Jo Ford Explores How Pain is Passed Down Through Families
What makes a place home? For the women in Kelli Jo Ford’s debut novel, Crooked Hallelujah, home is a complex, contentious thing. Their homes are comforting or harmful, safe or... Read more
Published on: 2020-07-21
Source: Texas Observer
Back to the Wall
Back to the Wall A border wall is headed for Laredo—and the only thing likely to stop it is time. By Gus Bova July 20, 2020  It starts at... Read more
Published on: 2020-07-20
Source: Texas Observer
After Years of Advocacy, the House of Representatives Finally Cuts Funding to Trump’s Deportation Force
The Trump administration is infamous for its attacks on immigrants and their loved ones. The administration’s cruelty has no bounds, as we’ve seen from its separation of families, obliteration of... Read more
Published on: 2020-07-14
Source: ACLU
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RESOURCES

EXPERIENCING THE BORDERLANDS

Navigating the Borderlands
Borderline: Navigating the invisible boundary and physical barriers that define the U.S.-Mexico border
America’s Wall
Embattled Borderlands
Up Against the Wall
USA Today’s In-Depth Examination of the Border Wall
Faces of the Borderlands
Along the border, 500 miles of desert species

BACKGROUND

Maps, science and photographs documenting border impacts
Border Security and Accountability Act of 2015 – Fact Sheet
Wall Street’s Border Wall: How 5 Firms Benefit Financially from Anti-Immigrant Policy
Past, Present, and Future Impacts of Walls on the U.S.-Mexico Border

CASE AGAINST THE WALL

The Environmental Cost of Trump’s Border Wall – Center for Western Priorities
Why we don’t need Trump’s ‘great, great wall’ – Arizona Daily Star
New Border Walls Designed to Flood Texas Towns – Texas Observer
Border Lawmakers Balk at Donald Trump’s Wall Request – Wall Street Journal
Scientists say Trump’s border wall would devastate wildlife habitat – The Texas Tribune
Surprising Lives of Those Living Along U.S.-Mexico Border – National Geographic
There’s a better alternative to building a border wall: restoring the Rio Grande – Quartz
The environmental impact of the US-Mexico Border Wall – Newsweek
Why Trump’s wall won’t stretch ‘from sea to shining sea’ – Washington Post
The Founders would have opposed seizing land for Trump’s border wall – Washington Post

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