Pandemic fears in border towns as workers flock in to build Trump’s wall
The Guardian
Unlike the rest of the US, the sleepy border community of Ajo, Arizona, is busier than ever these days, as hundreds of border wall construction workers pass through each day.
Revealed: how poor Mexicans’ blood plasma feeds UK demand
The Guardian
“The first time I went, I wanted to cry,” said Lucía, a mother of three, describing how her economic situation would compel her to do the journey from her home
‘Treated like trash’: the project trying to identify the bodies of migrants
The Guardian
Soil is carefully dug and then brushed away and the bags removed from the ground. Inside are bones but also small items that give a touch of humanity and threads
Trump deploys ‘surge’ of park rangers to patrol Mexican border
The Guardian
Diverting rangers is a way to direct federal resources to the border without the need for congressional approvalHelp us cover the critical issues of 2020. This Giving Tuesday, consider making
‘This touched everyone’: Walmart store reopens months after mass shooting
The Guardian
Three months after one of the deadliest mass shootings in modern US history, the Walmart store in El Paso, Texas, where 22 were killed in an August rampage reopened on
Maximum Land with Minimum Palestinians: The Annexation of Area C
Palestine Chronicle
Early this month Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem published a report on Israel’s policy in Area C and its implications for the population of the West Bank.
National tragedy’: Trump begins border wall construction in Unesco reserve
The Guardian
In the face of protests by environmental groups, the wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the monument. It is part of the 175 miles of barrier
Why Violence Persists in New Mexico’s Indigenous Border Towns
VICE
This article appears in VICE Magazine's Borders Issue. The edition is a global exploration of both physical and invisible borders and examines who is affected by these lines and why
Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster, Is Still Poisoning Navajo Lands 40 Years Later
VICE
Early in the summer of 1979, Larry King, an underground surveyor at the United Nuclear Corporation's Church Rock Uranium mine in New Mexico, began noticing something unusual when looking at