Brenda
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📰🌵Our Weekly Roundup is HERE!
Do not miss out on this week’s stories, a review by Caroline Tracey of an art exhibition by Sonora-born artist Miriam Salado & a reported analysis by Todd Miller about how a dramatic increase in private contracts figures into current border enforcement.
Full Roundup🦂🔗:
Do not miss out on this week’s stories, a review by Caroline Tracey of an art exhibition by Sonora-born artist Miriam Salado & a reported analysis by Todd Miller about how a dramatic increase in private contracts figures into current border enforcement.
Full Roundup🦂🔗:
Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup Jan. 16
An art exhibition in Mexico, billions of dollars of CBP spending on private contracts, ICE impunity, and more.
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January 16, 2026 at 9:03 PM
📰🌵Our Weekly Roundup is HERE!
Do not miss out on this week’s stories, a review by Caroline Tracey of an art exhibition by Sonora-born artist Miriam Salado & a reported analysis by Todd Miller about how a dramatic increase in private contracts figures into current border enforcement.
Full Roundup🦂🔗:
Do not miss out on this week’s stories, a review by Caroline Tracey of an art exhibition by Sonora-born artist Miriam Salado & a reported analysis by Todd Miller about how a dramatic increase in private contracts figures into current border enforcement.
Full Roundup🦂🔗:
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The border industrial complex hit $14.2B in contracts in 2025, a record. ICE boosted weapons spending 600%. Biden or Trump, the business of border enforcement keeps growing. Who's really profiting from border security?
Read the full investigation🦂🔗:
Read the full investigation🦂🔗:
Profitable Violence: A New Era of the Border Industrial Complex
In 2025, a dramatic increase in contracts to private industry correlates with increasing violence committed by border and immigration police forces.
open.substack.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:45 AM
The border industrial complex hit $14.2B in contracts in 2025, a record. ICE boosted weapons spending 600%. Biden or Trump, the business of border enforcement keeps growing. Who's really profiting from border security?
Read the full investigation🦂🔗:
Read the full investigation🦂🔗:
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Wednesday’s shooting happened a day after the Department of Homeland Security announced that “the largest DHS operation ever is happening right now in Minnesota.” (via
@mprnews.org)
@mprnews.org)
Live updates: Officials confirm ICE-involved shooting in south Minneapolis
Witnesses reported a person was shot in south Minneapolis on Wednesday morning, amid a large presence of federal law enforcement officers. It was not immediately clear who may have been shot, or who m...
www.mprnews.org
January 7, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Wednesday’s shooting happened a day after the Department of Homeland Security announced that “the largest DHS operation ever is happening right now in Minnesota.” (via
@mprnews.org)
@mprnews.org)
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What's ahead for the borderlands in 2026? 🏜️
Mass deportation warehouses, USMCA trade talks, Rio Grande drought, militarized defense areas & the border security industrial complex.
We're leaving Substack for Ghost, a nonprofit that doesn't take MAGA venture capital money.
Share/subscribe/donate🦂
Mass deportation warehouses, USMCA trade talks, Rio Grande drought, militarized defense areas & the border security industrial complex.
We're leaving Substack for Ghost, a nonprofit that doesn't take MAGA venture capital money.
Share/subscribe/donate🦂
The Border Chronicle Forecast for 2026
Why The Border Chronicle is leaving Substack. Some stories we'll be following this year. And setting our intentions on building a better future when everything seems bleak.
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:05 PM
What's ahead for the borderlands in 2026? 🏜️
Mass deportation warehouses, USMCA trade talks, Rio Grande drought, militarized defense areas & the border security industrial complex.
We're leaving Substack for Ghost, a nonprofit that doesn't take MAGA venture capital money.
Share/subscribe/donate🦂
Mass deportation warehouses, USMCA trade talks, Rio Grande drought, militarized defense areas & the border security industrial complex.
We're leaving Substack for Ghost, a nonprofit that doesn't take MAGA venture capital money.
Share/subscribe/donate🦂
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🎙️Our new podcast episode with Jonathan Blitzer is OUT NOW! A discussion around his most recent piece “The Real Target of Trump’s War on Drug Boats,” U.S.-Mexico Border,military deployment into cities, and more.
To listen, click on the link below🦂🔗: open.substack.com/pub/theborde...
To listen, click on the link below🦂🔗: open.substack.com/pub/theborde...
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November 18, 2025 at 6:24 PM
🎙️Our new podcast episode with Jonathan Blitzer is OUT NOW! A discussion around his most recent piece “The Real Target of Trump’s War on Drug Boats,” U.S.-Mexico Border,military deployment into cities, and more.
To listen, click on the link below🦂🔗: open.substack.com/pub/theborde...
To listen, click on the link below🦂🔗: open.substack.com/pub/theborde...
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We are two journalists with 25 years-plus experience reporting on the U.S.-Mexico border, and started our own outlet in 2021 reporting on the border region with context and analysis. It's been tough learning the business side, but we are independent and growing. @theborderchronicle.bsky.social
Other folks have said it, but let me just note that:
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
(1) lots of talented, must-read journalists have been let go from their jobs over the last year
(2) millions of Americans are abandoning current media outlets and looking for new alternatives
Seems like a sure-fire business opportunity here?
November 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We are two journalists with 25 years-plus experience reporting on the U.S.-Mexico border, and started our own outlet in 2021 reporting on the border region with context and analysis. It's been tough learning the business side, but we are independent and growing. @theborderchronicle.bsky.social
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A Q&A with Sister Tracey Horan, the associate director of education and advocacy for the Kino Border Initiative.
She emphasizes insights that recently deported people have shared on Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
Read the full interview at the link below🦂🔗
open.substack.com/pub/theborde...
She emphasizes insights that recently deported people have shared on Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
Read the full interview at the link below🦂🔗
open.substack.com/pub/theborde...
"A lot of families are suffering": A Q&A with Sister Tracey Horan from the Kino Border Initiative in Ambos Nogales
In Mexico, Horan has interviewed numerous people deported under the Trump administration."Overcrowding in detention, a lack of oversight and misinformation" are creating dangerous conditions, she says
open.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A Q&A with Sister Tracey Horan, the associate director of education and advocacy for the Kino Border Initiative.
She emphasizes insights that recently deported people have shared on Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
Read the full interview at the link below🦂🔗
open.substack.com/pub/theborde...
She emphasizes insights that recently deported people have shared on Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
Read the full interview at the link below🦂🔗
open.substack.com/pub/theborde...
So excited to be part of @theborderchronicle.bsky.social as their digital strategist and audience engagement.🦂📰💛
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November 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
So excited to be part of @theborderchronicle.bsky.social as their digital strategist and audience engagement.🦂📰💛
Please susbcribe and continue to support their work that would not be possible with YOU🫵🏻.
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Please susbcribe and continue to support their work that would not be possible with YOU🫵🏻.
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An interview with Russ Mcspadden.
In his debut poetry collection, Borderlings, McSpadden uses his poetry to express witnessing militarization at the border wall and the effects it has on the Sonoran desert's ecology. 🌵🐌
Read the full interview below 🦂
In his debut poetry collection, Borderlings, McSpadden uses his poetry to express witnessing militarization at the border wall and the effects it has on the Sonoran desert's ecology. 🌵🐌
Read the full interview below 🦂
“We pay for borders with everything"
An interview with Russ McSpadden about his debut poetry collection, Borderlings.
www.theborderchronicle.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
An interview with Russ Mcspadden.
In his debut poetry collection, Borderlings, McSpadden uses his poetry to express witnessing militarization at the border wall and the effects it has on the Sonoran desert's ecology. 🌵🐌
Read the full interview below 🦂
In his debut poetry collection, Borderlings, McSpadden uses his poetry to express witnessing militarization at the border wall and the effects it has on the Sonoran desert's ecology. 🌵🐌
Read the full interview below 🦂
It took me awhile, but I’m now here full time, and I REALLY LIKE this platform 😚
October 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
It took me awhile, but I’m now here full time, and I REALLY LIKE this platform 😚
my mom is not working due to the federal government being closed, so I’ve started sending her tik toks
October 24, 2025 at 3:40 PM
my mom is not working due to the federal government being closed, so I’ve started sending her tik toks
Marana community showed up tonight to discuss the prison that could turn into a detention center and the impact it could have on the community.
October 24, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Marana community showed up tonight to discuss the prison that could turn into a detention center and the impact it could have on the community.
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Today's Border Chronicle post is a bit different.🦂🧐
We have ambitious plans for change on this horizon but we need your help! Please fill out this survey and help us take that next step. It's short and painless. We promise!
We have ambitious plans for change on this horizon but we need your help! Please fill out this survey and help us take that next step. It's short and painless. We promise!
Please Take Our Survey: Help The Border Chronicle Improve
If you're a longtime reader, or just newly subscribed, we'd appreciate your feedback. This survey won't take long. We promise!
www.theborderchronicle.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Today's Border Chronicle post is a bit different.🦂🧐
We have ambitious plans for change on this horizon but we need your help! Please fill out this survey and help us take that next step. It's short and painless. We promise!
We have ambitious plans for change on this horizon but we need your help! Please fill out this survey and help us take that next step. It's short and painless. We promise!
Such a privilege to know and work with Dora Luz Rodriguez and Salvavision.
Please go buy her memoir. She tells her story of having to flee El Salvador🇸🇻 due to the civil war, surviving the desert, and becoming a humanitarian leader.
Please go buy her memoir. She tells her story of having to flee El Salvador🇸🇻 due to the civil war, surviving the desert, and becoming a humanitarian leader.
📸 recap of last Friday’s Charla con Café!☕We had an author book talk with Dora Rodriguez, who discussed her latest memoir, Dora: A daughter of Unforgiving Terrain.💙 🤍
To purchase memoir: salvavision.org
Get involved with Salvavision: www.dorarodriguez.org
To purchase memoir: salvavision.org
Get involved with Salvavision: www.dorarodriguez.org
October 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Such a privilege to know and work with Dora Luz Rodriguez and Salvavision.
Please go buy her memoir. She tells her story of having to flee El Salvador🇸🇻 due to the civil war, surviving the desert, and becoming a humanitarian leader.
Please go buy her memoir. She tells her story of having to flee El Salvador🇸🇻 due to the civil war, surviving the desert, and becoming a humanitarian leader.
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will be on-site at Super Bowl LX, where Bad Bunny is headlining, a Trump adviser said.
Deploying abusive agencies to sporting events, concerts, or other public events is a cruel practice that should end.
Deploying abusive agencies to sporting events, concerts, or other public events is a cruel practice that should end.
ICE Will Be On Patrol At Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show
The NFL received right-wing backlash from its decision to have Bad Bunny headline its Super Bowl halftime show.
www.forbes.com
October 2, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will be on-site at Super Bowl LX, where Bad Bunny is headlining, a Trump adviser said.
Deploying abusive agencies to sporting events, concerts, or other public events is a cruel practice that should end.
Deploying abusive agencies to sporting events, concerts, or other public events is a cruel practice that should end.