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The wall along our southern border is a joke

Not only is the border fence a failure at its job; it’s also proving an environmental disaster.

by Scott Nicol, Apr 19, 2011
Deadly crossing

July 2010 was the second-deadliest month ever for border-crossers in southern Arizona.

by Denver Nicks, Oct 11, 2010
Failed State

Photojournalist Julian Cardona on living and working in Mexico's war zone.

by Cally Carswell, Mar 05, 2010
Charles Bowden on The War Next Door

On the U.S.-Mexico border, the corrupt and futile War on Drugs takes a violent toll on the poorest people.

by Charles Bowden, Mar 01, 2010
Brushed aside

On Washington's Olympic Peninsula, the once-lucrative floral greens industry is floundering as its immigrant workers face deportation.

by Lissa James, Aug 19, 2009
2,000 miles of controversy

The new border wall may not be stopping all that many immigrants, but it's certainly having an impact on Southwestern wildlife.

by Ariana Brocious, Aug 10, 2009
The real Washington vampire story

Despite Stephenie Meyer’s best-selling books, there are no vampires in Forks, Wash. – except for the Border Patrol and immigration agents who prey on the poorest workers in the area.

by Juan Jose Bocanegra and Joe Campe, May 20, 2009
Garbage grows well on the border

The many thousands of illegal immigrants who pass through Arizona border towns are leaving tons of litter in their wake.

by Christina Nealson, Apr 30, 2009
Population’s Paul Revere?

Frosty Wooldridge sees himself as a kind of Paul Revere, tirelessly warning the West about overpopulation – especially in the form of illegal immigrants.

by Marty Durlin, May 26, 2008
Two weeks in the West

Greater sage grouse gets another shot at protection; Colorado River water users ratify new plan; news from around the West; a high-tech “virtual fence” on the U.S.-Mexico border runs into problems.

by Jonathan Thompson, Dec 24, 2007