Yo-Yo Ma plays Bach at the border
A celebration of the greater community of Laredo and Nuevo Laredo Also a different example of a concert held in San Diego last year
Continue reading →A celebration of the greater community of Laredo and Nuevo Laredo Also a different example of a concert held in San Diego last year
Continue reading →Pew Research has an updated set of charts describing the border over the first six months of the government fiscal year
Continue reading →A border wall is one off the top fundraising topics for the Trump campaign leading into 2020. This tends to underscore this is at least as much a symbolic and political fight as one looking for an effective approach. Articles … Continue reading →
Two articles about effects of the wall on wildlife including birds.
Continue reading →The New York Times created this story about a short little piece of wall, apparently results of putting some wall but not gates. Representative Filemon B. Vela Jr., a Democrat who represents Brownsville in Congress and whose district includes Los … Continue reading →
One story making the rounds has been that the Trump administration has been planning to release migrants in “sanctuary cities” as a method of political pressure. There is a bit of trolling going on, but this seems to simultaneously have … Continue reading →
The previous congressional deal limited border fence spending the Rio Grande sector. It looks like efforts are proceeding to build/replace short sections of fencing in El Paso and Yuma sectors as well. This seems to use the military budgets – … Continue reading →
The Trump Administration has been releasing hundreds if not thousands of migrants in the Rio Grande Valley. One of the first stops for many in Brownsville is the Good Neighbor Settlement House, a homeless shelter. Normally there were a few … Continue reading →
One organization dedicated to border issues is the Southern Border Communities Coalition. From their website they bring together about 60 organizations from Brownsville to San Diego. There is a blog of sometimes more local topics Mixed with sometimes more critical … Continue reading →
March statistics are in for the number of apprehensions along the southern border. As expected it went slightly over 100,000 (apprehensions plus “inadmissables”). High for the last five years but not necessarily historically when in early 2000s there was a … Continue reading →