Mexican-American Border Region Archives

Mexican-American Border Region

“Just Keep Going North”

Theories on the frontier: the process, politics, and ethics that arise while covering the U.S.-Mexico border

El Corralón

by Earl Shorris,

Bayview, Texas, the Immigration and Naturalization Service Processing Center. The camp lies well to the north of the Rio Grande, covering 317 acres of the flatlands beside the Gulf of…

“Just Keep Going North”

by William T. Vollmann,

At the border

If These Walls Could Talk

by Lauren Markham,

The strange history of our futile border fortifications

Lines and Lineage

by Tomas van Houtryve,

We often forget that the boundary between the United States and Mexico was not always where it is today. It used to be seven hundred miles farther north, following what…

Ground Control

From affidavits written by people across the United States that were included in a lawsuit brought against the Department of Homeland Security by the Immigration Reform Law Institute. The lawsuit,…

Body Politic

by Eileen Myles,

From a mailing sent out by Eileen Myles in October 1992 as part of a presidential campaign in which she ran as an “openly female” write-in candidate. Myles is a…

Borderlands

by Kirsten Luce,

Photographs from Hidalgo County

Beyond a Boundary

by James Marcus,

From a distance, as it hugs the hilly terrain, the fence looks almost decorative — a rambling, rust-colored abstraction. A thin ribbon of road runs alongside, its sandy surface kept…

Blue Sky Days

by Tomas van Houtryve,

Two years ago, in February 2012, President Barack Obama signed into law the FAA Modernization and Reform Act, which called on the Federal Aviation Administration to “provide for the safe…

Life as a Terrorist

by William T. Vollmann,

Uncovering my FBI file

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“Just Keep Going North”

El Corralón

“Just Keep Going North”

If These Walls Could Talk

Lines and Lineage

Ground Control

Body Politic

Borderlands

Beyond a Boundary

Blue Sky Days

Life as a Terrorist

September 2013

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