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“[R]emoteness is a relational phenomenon that must be continuously reproduced and defended” and “governmental efforts to do so measurably increase the risk of human mortality. Selective access also obscures the scale of this phenomenon.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Manufacturing Desolation: Unauthorized Border Crosser Mortality, Disappearance, and the Sociopolitical Construction of Remoteness in U.S. Boundary EnforcementU.S. boundary enforcement has long been organized around an effort to redirect unauthorized border crossing into remote and inhospitable expanses of desert terrain. Using southern Arizona’s West De...www.tandfonline.com

From 2024: “As corporate boosters push to shift supply chains from China to northern Mexico, military expansion in the borderlands secures manufacturing zones for transnational capital.” nacla.org/nearshoring-...

Nearshoring and the Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico BorderAs corporate boosters push to shift supply chains from China to northern Mexico, military expansion in the borderlands secures manufacturing zones for transnational capital.nacla.org

“Due to intensified immigration enforcement & changes in economic migration incentives, the inflow of younger undocumented workers to the U.S. has slowed, & a growing segment of the agricultural workforce remain employed in farmworker positions into later adulthood” link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Population Aging and the Burden of Chronic Health Conditions Among Mexican-Born Undocumented Farmworkers in the U.S - Journal of Immigrant and Minority HealthThe aging of Mexican-born undocumented farmworkers in the U.S. may compromise agricultural productivity and lead to increasing chronic disease in this population, yet research on aging and chronic dis...link.springer.com

57% of adolescent and young adult farmworkers in Arizona reported experiencing heat-related illness symptoms while working conectaarizona.com/el-57-de-los...

El 57% de los adolescentes y jóvenes que trabajan en los campos agrícolas de Arizona sufrió golpes de calor, señala investigación de ASU – Conecta ArizonaTrabajadores agrícolas en un campo cerca de San Luis, Arizona (Foto: cortesía de Adrián Laborin y Fiorella L. Carlos Chávez, Arizona State University -conectaarizona.com

“We are seeing a massive expansion of surveillance and surveillance technology across the borderlands” www.latimes.com/world-nation...

Trump administration’s $46-billion 'smart wall' races ahead on the U.S.-Mexico borderThe U.S. is rapidly building what it calls a 'smart wall' on the Mexico border, combining tall steel fencing with advanced technology such as sensors and cameras.www.latimes.com

[T]he UK’s planned return-hub approach in the Balkans combines “domestic pressure, political framing, and external cooperation…to shift migration control outward while increasing risk and reducing accountability” static1.squarespace.com/static/5bb60...

This will also help because you will be getting much less direct solar radiation and reflected radiation, independent of the air temperature. For the same reasons, if you’re outside, try and stay in the shade and away from hot surfaces.

"While being 250 y.o. as a nation, this region doesn't have the same birth date as the U.S. We look not so much to 1776 as the starting point for modern U.S. identity. We look at the Mexican-American War in 1848." said Ruben Leyva, a Gila Apache border scholar www.usatoday.com/story/news/u...

War redrew the US southern border. The culture never surrendered.The changes on the southern border reshaped Native, Spanish and Mexican communities, telling a story of resilience and resistance.www.usatoday.com

“[I]t will permanently block certain tribal ceremonies where members cross the border -- with federal permission -- such as an annual walking pilgrimage to Magdalena de Kino.”

“By sealing off the border with a barrier they cannot pass, not only will this subgroup be impacted by being cut off from the resources…but the entire population will be impacted by the sudden split in their range and lack of genetic exchange” wildlandsnetwork.org/stories/the-...

The Border Wall is Closing in on Peninsular Bighorn Sheep - Wildlands Networkwildlandsnetwork.org

“Drawing on official budgets, corporate reports, and specialized literature, the analysis explores how these transformations reconfigure sovereignty and produce new forms of territorial control and securitization.” www.revistanorteamerica.unam.mx/index.php/na...

“Mobility declines are…especially persistent in Hispanic neighborhoods.”

“ICE can delegate federal immigration enforcement powers to local police” and “Customs and Border Protection quietly rolled out a new mobile face-scanning app called Mobile Identify for local law enforcement officers”

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“[D]eclining incarceration rates are offset by expanded civil immigration detention” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Crimmigration and the carceral fix in Arizona - Stefano Bloch, Daniel E. Martínez, Enrique Olivares-Pelayo, Ufuoma Ovienmhada, Ryan Fatica (Seal), Justin D. Strong, 2026This paper centers Arizona as a critical site in the racialized criminalization of immigrants—a practice known as “crimmigration”—and the associated adaptive re...journals.sagepub.com

“[B]ordering practices and state-imposed immobility are sustained by the state’s strategic deployment of geopolitical coordination, temporal–spatial constraints, legal ambiguity, and affective manipulation, as tools for controlling racialized migrants” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Precarious Wait: How U.S. Externalization and Waiting Policies Affect Haitian Asylum Seekers in Northeastern MexicoHaitian asylum seekers (HAS) at the U.S.-Mexico border have become a focal point for academic, governmental, and media discussions. They have long been affected by border externalization and waitin...www.tandfonline.com

From @geoffboyce.bsky.social: “this paper suggests a reading of border and migration policing as a ‘frontier of appropriation,’ and elaborates a broad agenda of research that follows focusing on: the everyday relationship between crisis, devaluation and accumulation” doi.org/10.1177/0309...

Coast Guard deploys autonomous Saildrones on Lake Erie to enhance border surveillance www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Coast Guard deploys autonomous Saildrones on Lake Erie to enhance border surveillanceOut on Lake Erie, something new is on the water. Instead, autonomous saildrones, which glide across nearly 10,000 square miles of open lake and quietly reshape how the Coast Guard watches what happen...www.yahoo.com

Michigan approves Border Patrol surveillance cameras on state highways www.freep.com/story/news/i...

Michigan approves Border Patrol surveillance cameras on state highwaysThe state of Michigan has approved Border Patrol placing surveillance cameras with license plate readers on some highways.www.freep.com

Tethered aerostat used for Border Patrol operations breaks free in Laredo, drifts into Mexico and crashes www.kgns.tv/2026/05/20/m...

Military surveillance aircraft breaks free in Laredo, drifts into MexicoTethered aerostat used for Border Patrol operations broke free May 18 during high windswww.kgns.tv