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Inside the Border Security Expo, Where Companies Sell Surveillance Tech to CBP

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On demo day at the Border Security Expo, hundreds of law enforcement agents armed with M16s, automatic shotguns, pistols, and other high powered and military-grade weapons strolled around the grounds
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Why Violence Persists in New Mexico’s Indigenous Border Towns

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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
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Church Rock, America’s Forgotten Nuclear Disaster, Is Still Poisoning Navajo Lands 40 Years Later

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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
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One Widow’s Quest to Make Border Patrol Pay for Killing Her Husband

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On May 31, 2010, Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas, an undocumented immigrant and longtime resident of San Diego, died after being beaten and tased by US Customs and Border Protection agents.

He was

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The Immigrant Crackdown Is a Cash Cow for Private Prisons

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An inmate in a GEO-run prison in California in 2013. Photo byJohn Moore/Getty Images Earlier this month Daniel Ragsdale, the second-in-command at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE), confirmed
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Families Are Reuniting with Their Deported Loved Ones in the Middle of the Rio Grande

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Last week, 22-year-old Denise Gomez and her mother waded into the Rio Grande River, straddling the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico. Their feet were wrapped in trash
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Lowriders Are the Beating Heart of Chicano Culture in the Southwest

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Outside El Santuario De Chimayo, 20 miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Arthur “Lowlow” Medina leans forward on his wooden staff.

The local artist and one of the pioneers

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The Forgotten Victims of the First Atomic Bomb Blast

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A outdoor museum at the White Sands Base, housing the varieties of missiles and rockets tested in the White Sands Missle Range located south of the Trinity blast. All photos
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Inside the Abandoned Ghost Towns of New Mexico

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<p“You can’t imagine how many houses there were here,” says Ben Sisneros, looking up the Pecos River Valley to the Great Plains beyond.

“There used to be bars, stores, schools.

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The Zozobra Festival Is a Neo-Pagan Ode to Spanish Colonialism

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Last week, at a park in New Mexico’s capital city of Santa Fe, tens of thousands of people gathered to watch the annual burning of what may be the world’s

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