May 4, 2023 | Border Wall, Borderlands, Commentary
The U.S.-Mexico borderlands were once a place of thriving Indigenous lands with diverse populations of migrating plants and animals. Through shifting colonial claims to territory, Mexico switched from Spanish acquisition in the 16th century, and by the mid-19th...
May 4, 2023 | Border Wall, Borderlands, Commentary
By Dinah Bear In 2005, Congress passed the REAL ID Act that authorized the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to “waive all legal requirements…necessary to ensure expeditious construction” of barriers and roads at the U.S.-Mexico border.[1] No...
Feb 12, 2023 | Commentary
There have been moments in my lifetime when the whole world seems insane. When I saw what was happening at the border, I was stunned. Massive trucks hauling containers driving so fast we were covered in their dust when we got out of our vehicles. Blaring air horns at...
