The Border Chronicle
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The Border Chronicle podcast is hosted by Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller. Based in Tucson, Arizona, longtime journalists Melissa and Todd speak with fascinating fronterizos, community leaders, activists, artists and more at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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- "The Earth Literally Ripped Open": A Podcast with Mary Reynolds, Author of The Quake that Drained the Desert · 41 min · Episode 143At three p.m. on May 3, 1887, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck Bavispe, Sonora, and reverberated throughout the borderlands. Some fifty people perished, crushed by collapsing…
- The Border Chronicle Turns Five. What’s Next? · 55 min · Episode 142Founders Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller join editor and reporter Caroline Tracey to revisit the newsroom’s beginnings, the stories that have defined it, and to celebrate its…
- Wall Watch: Mapping Trump’s $46 Billion Border Mega-Project · 54 min · Episode 141What’s bigger than the Hoover Dam or the Panama Canal? The Trump Administration’s spending of more than $46 billion in taxpayer money on border walls, and buoy barriers across…
- Protecting the Last Grandmother Cottonwood: A Podcast with Kate Scott · 54 min · Episode 139A vivid depiction of what has been happening during the last eight weeks of resistance of border wall construction in Arizona’s San Raphael Valley. It took several attempts to…
- Why Local Pressure is Key to Impacting National Immigration Politics: A podcast with John Washington, author of "How to Close a Camp" · 51 min · Episode 138In February, the country broke an ominous record: over 68,000 people were being held in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more than ever before. President Trump…
- The Everywhere Border: A podcast with Border Chronicle founders, Todd and Melissa · 51 min · Episode 137Border Chronicle founders, Todd and Melissa, talk about how law enforcement surveillance, high-speed chases instigated by Border Patrol, unwarranted searches and seizures, and…
- The Term “Border Security” Is Completely Inaccurate: A Podcast with Jacques Servin · 51 min · Episode 136This conversation, hosted by Todd Miller, about a great borderlands adobe brick building project is going great, until Jacques Servin—of the political performance artist…
- Bringing the Border into Latin American Art: A Podcast with Gabriela Rangel · 50 min · Episode 135Gabriela Rangel, director of Tucson’s Museum of Contemporary Art, was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. As a curator focusing on Latin American art, she’s worked at the…
- Inside the Sentinel Surveillance Tower in Ciudad Juárez: A podcast with investigative journalist José Olivares · 46 min · Episode 134José Olivares is an independent investigative journalist and audio producer who reports on immigration enforcement, U.S. operations in Latin America, and human rights. He is also…
- Inside the “National Defense Areas”: A Podcast with Investigative Reporters Sonner Kehrt and David Roza · 1 t 12 min · Episode 133In January 2025, the Trump administration declared a national emergency at the southern border and directed the military to take control of large expanses of the border, which…
- What’s Wrong with Mexico’s Right Wing? A Conversation with Alex González Ormerod · 1 t 4 min · Episode 132When Alex González Ormerod, editor of the Mexico Political Economist, started researching his book about the Mexican right wing, he found an odd pattern: many of his interviewees…
- Running through Borders: A Podcast with Amy Juan · 1 t 18 min · Episode 131Resistance can take many forms. One of them, as Amy Juan of the Tohono O’odham explains here, is for people to come together to run in unity, prayer, and witness across…
- Telling the Stories of Urban Change in the Borderlands · 53 min · Episode 130For Lydia Otero, researching the history of the Southwest is personal and political. Growing up in Tucson, Arizona, their family frequented a place they called La Calle that was…
- Gunfights Gunfights Gunfights · 34 min · Episode 129Tombstone, Arizona calls itself “The Town too Tough to Die.” It has an Old West-themed Main Street and daily re-enactments of gunfights. For most people, it’s a place to briefly…
- Abolishing Just ICE Misses the Point: A Podcast with Melissa and Todd on the Border Industrial Complex · 58 min · Episode 128In the spirit of broadening the analysis beyond ICE, Border Chronicle cofounders Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller discuss the leading role the U.S. Border Patrol has played in…
- Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup Jan. 16 · 19 min · Episode 127This has been a difficult week, as many mourn the deaths of Renee Good and others at the hands of ICE. As enforcement actions escalate across the country, the whole country…
- A discussion with former agent Jenn Budd on Border Patrol and ICE impunity · 1 t 4 min · Episode 126I’ve been speaking with Jenn Budd for years about Border Patrol crimes, impunity and how the agency could be (and should be reformed.) But both Democrats and Republicans have…
- The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: January 9 · 28 min · Episode 125This Week in The Border Chronicle: More News from the Border: River wall: Feds deploying 500-miles of water barriers near Brownsville MyRGV.com San Diego sues federal government…
- The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: December 19 · 27 min · Episode 124Support local independent journalism from the U.S.-Mexico border today. Become a paid subscriber for just $6 a month or $60 a year at https://www.theborderchronicle.com/ Get…
- The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: December 12 · 22 min · Episode 123This Week in The Border Chronicle: More News from the Border: The Trump administration announced this week that it will further militarize the California-Mexico border by…
