Guess how I spent my weekend? All your questions answered about Trump's $3 billion border buoy barrier fiasco over the weekend. And it's still being cleaned up. www.theborderchronicle.com/floods-expos...

Floods Expose Dangers of Trump’s $3 Billion Rio Grande Buoy Barrier Plan

As floodwaters swept hundreds of one-ton border buoys downstream, international bridges closed, commerce slowed, and officials struggled to get answers from DHS about a project advancing despite local...

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BREAKING🚨: 120 buoys staged for Trump's Rio Grande floating barrier broke loose near Eagle Pass, closing bridges. They're drifting toward Laredo, where officials declared an emergency, expecting them at the Colombia Bridge by Sunday, threatening water supplies & trade. Read full story: 🔗🦂

Breaking News: Laredo on Alert as Trump's Buoys Cause Chaos on the Rio Grande, Close International Bridges

Hundreds of massive orange buoys staged for a controversial DHS floating barrier project broke free near Eagle Pass and are now drifting toward Laredo, threatening bridges, commerce, drinking water su...

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This is the D.C. reflecting pool x one million. The billions in U.S. taxpayer money wasted, the terrible idea that every border resident warned against, and zero transparency from the administration. Bienvenido al shit show. www.theborderchronicle.com/breaking-new...

Breaking News: Laredo on Alert as Trump's Buoys Cause Chaos on the Rio Grande, Close International Bridges

Hundreds of massive orange buoys staged for a controversial DHS floating barrier project broke free near Eagle Pass and are now drifting toward Laredo, threatening bridges, commerce, drinking water su...

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This the most comprehensive video compilation so far of the horrific ICE killing, not for self-defense, but purportedly for "public safety." #mepolitics edition.cnn.com/2026/07/14/u...

See what video shows about fatal ICE-involved shooting in Maine | CNN

A CNN review of videos and photos offers new insight into the timeline of a fatal ICE-involved shooting in Biddeford, Maine, as key questions remain unanswered. CNN’s Yahya Abou-Ghazala reports

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Update that this reporting has been confirmed by CBS and Fox News; all vehicle stops are on hold, allegedly until new training and policies are put in effect.

Cities across the nation are re-evaluating whether to allow mass surveillance by Flock ALPR cameras. Want to find out whether your local police are using Flock to scan for immigrants targeted by ICE? EFF tells you how. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Are Your Local Police Using Flock Safety ALPRs to Scan for Immigrants?

When a car passes an automated license plate reader (ALPR), its plate is captured and instantly compared against a list of vehicles that police are actively looking for or that police have identified

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Cameron County, one of the poorest US counties, just gave a $9.25B AI warship maker a 95% tax abatement worth $211M+ to build in Brownsville. Locals packed hearings asking why billion dollar companies get relief while they absorb the pollution and costs. Who really pays? Read full story🦂🔗:

Who Pays for Brownsville's Industrial and Tech Boom?

County leaders say tax abatements attract jobs. But some residents argue the incentives enrich billion-dollar corporations while they shoulder the costs of growth, pollution, strained public resources...

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For @boltsmag.org, I wrote about one of the more under-the-radar ways that states are using their power to curb federal overreach: creating state laws under which people can sue federal officials for constitutional violations and get ideally around SCOTUS' narrowing of Bivens

This Maine Lawsuit is Testing the Boundaries of Suing Federal Immigration Agents - Bolts

One morning in late January, civil engineer Juan Sebastián Carvajal-Muñoz was driving to work in Portland, Maine, when federal agents in town for the so-called Operation Catch of the Day... Read More

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"The son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the man who died, said in a statement that "my father did not deserve this," although ICE stated its officer killed Araujo in self-defense after he ignored commands and tried to run over the officer." www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Houston ICE shooting updates: Mexico's president speaks out

ICE and the FBI are investigating after a Mexican citizen was shot and killed by an ICE agent in Houston's Magnolia Park on Tuesday.

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A total violation of international law. Eswatini is imprisoning people from multiple countries no crime, based on no violation of law in that country, and with the direct knowledge and acquiescence of the United States.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 4w ago

Reuters confirms. 11 more people captured by ICE have been sent to a maximum security prison in Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), a country where they have no ties and committed no crimes. reut.rs/4wpbIGU

“Whether it’s climate change or something else, our reservoir system is not as dependable as we once thought.”

Texas’ Refusal to Plan for Climate Change Created a Crisis in Corpus Christi

Stubbornly unrealistic assessments of the region’s reservoir system turned this year’s drought conditions into an emergency.

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NEW: Geraldo Lunas Campos repeatedly raised concerns about his mental health before he died at Camp East Montana. Records paint a portrait of how the Texas facility's staff failed to adequately respond. with @texastribune.org

“He Didn’t Need to Die.” How an Immigration Detention Center Repeatedly Failed to Address a Mental Health Crisis.

Geraldo Lunas Campos repeatedly raised concerns about his mental health before he died at Camp East Montana. Records paint a portrait of how the Texas facility’s staff failed to adequately respond.

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New podcast episode: Todd & Melissa on how border tactics such as surveillance, chases, warrantless searches, are moving inland. Plus buoy barriers, walls through sacred sites, and Todd's book on the Rio Grande. We run on subscribers, not ads. Subscribe NOW. Our work depends on YOU. Listen Now🔗🦂:

The Everywhere Border: A podcast with Border Chronicle founders, Todd and Melissa

Border Chronicle founders, Todd and Melissa, talk about how law enforcement surveillance, high-speed chases instigated by Border Patrol, unwarranted searches and seizures, and other heavy-handed polic...

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DHS handed Fisher Sand & Gravel $2.6B to cut a border barrier through Texas's Lower Pecos Canyonlands, home to 300+ rock art sites, some 5,000+ years old, and North America's oldest buffalo jump. Cultural laws were waived under the REAL ID Act. Archaeologists are sounding alarms. Full story🔗🦂:

Trump’s Border Wall Is Coming for Some of the Oldest Murals in North America

A $2.6 billion border barrier through Texas' Lower Pecos Canyonlands has archaeologists warning that irreplaceable indigenous rock art and sacred sites could be destroyed.

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As mines, housing, and border wall construction chew through the Sonoran Desert, volunteers with the Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society rescue saguaros and ocotillos by hand before bulldozers move in. ~165,000 plants saved so far. 🌵 📷Photos by Eliseu Cavalcante. Read full story🔗🦂:

The Manual Labor of Conservation

As housing projects, mines, and border wall construction accelerate habitat loss, photographer Eliseu Cavalcante documents the Tucson Cactus and Succulent Society’s efforts to preserve the desert’s ic...

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The Trump administration’s efforts to use the criminal grand jury process to retaliate against Minnesota and Minneapolis has floundered badly. It’s a sign of how they are willing to toss aside basic rules to get at their enemies; and how the courts have largely smacked them down when they tried.

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING: Judge Patrick Schiltz has quashed several DOJ grand jury subpoenas aimed Gov. Tim Walz and Mayor Jacob Frey, saying they were part of a retaliatory effort over their refusal to aid Trumpa dmin immigration enforcement efforts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

After killing one person without warning or trial, the US government let two other survivors die a horrible death by drowning after clinging to wreckage. Despite knowing this was a possible outcome, the US government appears to have deliberately chosen not to stage search and rescue ahead of time.

Adam Isacson@adamisacson.com · 2mo ago

The latest two boat-strike "survivors" didn't make it.

With interior Border Patrol checkpoints to the north, and the border to the south, DACA recipients in border communities feel under threat by multiple layers of law enforcement, from ICE to local police. Especially in Texas where Latinos say it feels like they have a target on their backs.

A Traffic Stop, Three Months in ICE Detention, and a Deportation Order: How Texas’s Immigration Crackdown Is Sweeping Up DACA Recipients

With interior Border Patrol checkpoints to the north, and the border to the south, DACA recipients in border communities feel under threat by multiple layers of law enforcement, from ICE to local poli...

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In this week's WOLA Border Update: Congress approved, on a party-line vote, another $69.5 million in funding for ICE and CBP. Alarms about detention conditions intensify, as do concerns about border wall construction in the Big Bend and elsewhere. Also, updates on impacts throughout the Americas.

U.S.-Mexico Border Update: Billions more for ICE and CBP, detention, border wall construction, impacts in the Americas - WOLA

Congress approved, on a party-line vote, another $69.5 million in funding for ICE and CBP. Alarms about detention conditions intensify, as do concerns about the environmental impact of border wall con...

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I talked with Rogelio Bolufé, organizer of the Union of People Kidnapped by ICE. The US government deported him to Ecuador earlier this month, even though he's from Cuba, and left him there with nothing.

Feds Deport ICE Detainee Organizer to Ecuador  - The American Prospect

Rogelio Bolufé is a Cuban national who faced ongoing retaliation for organizing against inhumane conditions inside detention camps.

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Elsa Hull was arrested while protesting a 30-foot border wall being bulldozed on her neighbor's land — land he never gave permission to enter. "They don't care about any law." Read the full Q&A🔗🦂: www.theborderchronicle.com/they-dont-ca...

What if "border security" is a lie hiding in plain sight? Todd Miller & Yes Men activist Jacques Servin go deep on language, power & the borderlands. Don't skip to the end, but definitely make it there. Listen to full episode🔗🦂:

The Term “Border Security” Is Completely Inaccurate: A Podcast with Jacques Servin

This conversation, hosted by Todd Miller, about a great borderlands adobe brick building project is going great, until Jacques Servin—of the political performance artist trickster and activist troupe ...

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It’s a really good piece and if you’re interested in the ways local governments are working with ICE, go read it.

Andrew Thrasher@tituslegaldesign.com · 2mo ago

I won't lie, it's very cool to see my work cited in the New York Times this morning. "Researchers estimate that the share of people detained through any type of 287(g) program rose to about 10 percent in January, up from about 3 percent a year before." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The border is everywhere, in your data, your police force, your healthcare records. Our new Everywhere Border Project series launches today. Going back to normal was never enough. Read below why🦂🔗:

Tech, War, and the Everywhere Border

Going “back to normal” won’t end structural violence in the U.S. or anywhere else.

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This week's Border Chronicle: the team meets legendary journalist Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, plus a deep dive into big tech and the everywhere border, a podcast on Latin American art and the borderlands, and news from screwworms in Texas to family separations. 🦂📰 Full Weekly Roundup🔗:

The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: June 5

The Border Chronicle hangs out with legendary journalist Amy Goodman, plus big tech and the "everywhere border" and a podcast about Latin American art and the borderlands and more!

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A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks. n.pr/3PWDxqK

National Guard has done little to reduce violent crime in D.C., a new study finds

A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks.

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NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

The Jan. 6 Pardons: How Many Clemency Recipients Have Faced Other Charges?

The real count is much higher than the public knew.

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Really fascinating new tool that may be a lifeline for attorneys working to file habeas lawsuits to protect their clients' right to bond!

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2mo ago

NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

The ICE agent charged with shooting a Venezuelan immigrant in north Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge and lying about the circumstances has been arrested in Texas after Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agents tracked him there.

ICE agent charged in shooting of Venezuelan immigrant during Operation Metro Surge arrested in Texas

Christian Castro’s arrest could lead to extradition proceedings between Minnesota and Texas.

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We loved working on this with Susan for The Border Chronicle. Some positive news among the nonstop depressing news cycle. And proof that border communities rule. 🦂🛼

The Border Chronicle@theborderchronicle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Two skate crews. Two countries. One community. Three women-led groups in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands are rewriting what life looks like when you stop letting borders define you. Read full story by Susan Barnett🦂🛼🔗: www.theborderchronicle.com/romeo-and-ju...