The Border Chronicle

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Episodes: 136

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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.

Episode Date
The Term “Border Security” Is Completely Inaccurate: A Podcast with Jacques Servin
Jun 11, 2026
Bringing the Border into Latin American Art: A Podcast with Gabriela Rangel
Jun 02, 2026
Inside the Sentinel Surveillance Tower in Ciudad Juárez: A podcast with investigative journalist José Olivares
May 14, 2026
Inside the “National Defense Areas”: A Podcast with Investigative Reporters Sonner Kehrt and David Roza
Apr 30, 2026
What’s Wrong with Mexico’s Right Wing? A Conversation with Alex González Ormerod
Apr 16, 2026
Running through Borders: A Podcast with Amy Juan
Apr 09, 2026
Telling the Stories of Urban Change in the Borderlands
Mar 05, 2026
Gunfights Gunfights Gunfights
Feb 17, 2026
Abolishing Just ICE Misses the Point: A Podcast with Melissa and Todd on the Border Industrial Complex
Feb 05, 2026
Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup Jan. 16
Jan 16, 2026
A discussion with former agent Jenn Budd on Border Patrol and ICE impunity
Jan 12, 2026
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: January 9
Jan 09, 2026
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: December 19
Dec 19, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: December 12
Dec 12, 2025
This Immigration Judge Loved His Job. But Then He Was Fired: A Podcast with Jeremiah Johnson
Dec 11, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: December 5
Dec 05, 2025
Kafka’s Merry-Go-Round of Hell: A Podcast with Laura St. John
Nov 25, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: November 21
Nov 21, 2025
From Impunity at the Border to Illegal Boat Strikes: A Podcast with Jonathan Blitzer
Nov 18, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: November 7
Nov 07, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: Halloween
Oct 31, 2025
“Telling the Truth about Immigration”: A Podcast with Isabel Garcia
Oct 30, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: October 24
Oct 24, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: September 26
Sep 26, 2025
Humanitarian Aid Is Never a Crime: A Podcast with Scott Warren
Sep 25, 2025
Filmmaker Alex Rivera on his Cult Classic "Sleep Dealer", and Creating a New Cinema for the Border
Sep 23, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: September 19
Sep 19, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: September 12
Sep 12, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: September 5
Sep 05, 2025
Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 29
Aug 29, 2025
Immigration Detention Inc.: A Podcast with Nancy Hiemstra and Deirdre Conlon
Aug 28, 2025
Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 22
Aug 22, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 15
Aug 15, 2025
How ICE Detention Was Built
Aug 12, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 8
Aug 08, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 1
Aug 01, 2025
What Does Security Really Mean? Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller Analyze the First Seven Months of Trump
Jul 31, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: July 25
Jul 25, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: June 27
Jun 27, 2025
Climate, Tech, Borders, and Gaza: A Podcast with Amali Tower
Jun 26, 2025
Audio Feature: "La Jaula de Oro", Trump's ICE Raids Cast a Shadow of Fear in the Rio Grande Valley
Jun 24, 2025
From Seeking Asylum to a Life of Service: Dora Rodriguez on Her New Memoir "A Daughter of Unforgiving Terrain."
Jun 17, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: June 13
Jun 13, 2025
The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: June 6
Jun 06, 2025
Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup and Video Conversation about Border Militarization: May 30
May 30, 2025
Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: May 23
May 23, 2025
The Cost of Being Undocumented: A Podcast with Alix Dick and Antero Garcia
May 20, 2025
Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: May 16
May 16, 2025
Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: May 9
May 09, 2025
A Video Dispatch from the New Mexico Border
May 08, 2025
Border Chronicle: Weekly Roundup May 2
May 02, 2025
The Endangered Rio Grande Can Still Be Saved: A Podcast with Maria-Elena Giner
Apr 30, 2025
New Border Wall is an 'Ecological Catastrophe': A Podcast with The Sierra Club's Erick Meza
Apr 29, 2025
State of the Border 100 Days after Trump: A Podcast with Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller
Apr 24, 2025
A Tour of the Sales Floor at the Border Security Expo in Phoenix
Apr 08, 2025
Live with Todd Miller from the Border Security Expo in Phoenix
Apr 08, 2025
A Live Podcast from Patagonia, Arizona, with Award-Winning Authors Luis Alberto Urrea and Gary Nabhan
Mar 27, 2025
Border Chronicle: Weekly Roundup March 21
Mar 21, 2025
Mass Deportations Will Tear Our Society Apart: A Q&A with David Bier, Immigration Expert with the Libertarian Cato Institute
Mar 04, 2025
The Migrant Criminality Narrative: A Podcast with César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
Feb 13, 2025
What Is Texas’s Operation Lone Star, and What Happens If Trump Makes It a National Model? A Podcast with Texas Civil Rights Advocate Bob Libal
Feb 04, 2025
What’s Gonna Happen on the Border in 2025? A Podcast with Erika Pinheiro
Jan 09, 2025
Reporter's Notebook: Melissa Talks About a New Binational Investigation on Border Militarization and Drownings in the Rio Grande
Dec 10, 2024
Border Chronicle Postelection Podcast
Nov 26, 2024
No Borders as a Practical Political Project: A Podcast with Nandita Sharma
Nov 21, 2024
A Special Border Chronicle Election Podcast
Oct 29, 2024
A Live Podcast from Nogales with Educators Celia Concannon and Gustavo Lozano
Oct 08, 2024
The Expanding Immigrant Detention Nexus: A Podcast with Jesse Franzblau
Oct 03, 2024
The Highest Law in the Land: Journalist Jessica Pishko on Right-wing Sheriffs and Democracy
Sep 24, 2024
From Green Beret to Border Human Rights Activist: A Podcast with Mike Wilson and José Antonio Lucero
Sep 05, 2024
Beyond 'El Mayo' and Drug Cartels: A Podcast with Journalist Luis Chaparro
Aug 27, 2024
What to Make of the U.S. and Mexican Elections: A Podcast with Alexander Aviña
Aug 08, 2024
Unbuild Walls: A Podcast with Silky Shah
Jun 27, 2024
Fix the Asylum System, Protect Human Rights: A Podcast with Adam Isacson
Jun 25, 2024
Help us Make The Border Chronicle a Full Time Project
Jun 04, 2024
The Walls Have Eyes: A Podcast with Petra Molnar
May 30, 2024
On a Far-Right Movement Beyond Trump: A podcast with Heidi Beirich
May 21, 2024
The Case for Open Borders: A Podcast with John Washington
Apr 30, 2024
A Love Letter to the Samaritans: A Podcast with Shura Wallin and David Damian Figueroa
Apr 18, 2024
What's Missing in the National Debate About the U.S.-Mexico Border: A Podcast with Melissa and Todd
Mar 26, 2024
A Map of Future Ruins: A Podcast with Lauren Markham
Mar 22, 2024
Jaguars and Resilience in the Borderlands: A Podcast with Russ McSpadden
Feb 27, 2024
The Everywhere Border: A Podcast with Mizue Aizeki
Feb 08, 2024
How the Right Wing Hijacked the Border Narrative: A Podcast with Conservative Media Expert AJ Bauer
Jan 30, 2024
Prepare Yourselves for the 2024 Border Chaos Narrative: A Podcast with Erika Pinheiro
Jan 11, 2024
Love Across Borders: A Podcast with Anna Lekas Miller
Dec 14, 2023
Asylum at the U.S.-Mexico Border has Never Been More Complex: A Podcast with Caitlyn Yates
Dec 12, 2023
Education Instead of Barbed Wire and Walls: A Podcast with Felicia Rangel-Samporano
Nov 28, 2023
Climate Change Oppression: A Podcast with Amali Tower
Nov 16, 2023
Reforming Asylum for the 21st Century: A Podcast with Immigration Expert Muzzafar Chishti
Oct 31, 2023
The Borderlands Are Beautiful: A Podcast with Petey Mesquitey
Oct 19, 2023
A Live Podcast with David Taylor, Artist and Border Researcher
Oct 10, 2023
On Civil Rights and Operation Lone Star in South Texas: A Podcast with Roberto Lopez
Sep 26, 2023
“People Need Representation”: A Podcast with Immigration Lawyer Margo Cowan
Sep 14, 2023
A View from the Darién Gap: A podcast with Caitlyn Yates
Aug 29, 2023
Border Fortification and the El Paso Massacre: A Podcast with Gilberto Rosas
Aug 10, 2023
On Social Justice and Self Care: A Podcast with Psychotherapist Alejandra Spector
Jun 27, 2023
The Longer Story of the Border Patrol Killing of a Tohono O’odham Man: A Podcast with Amy Juan
Jun 15, 2023
A Growing Public Health Crisis: A Conversation with Dr. Alexander Tenorio on Border Wall Injuries
May 30, 2023
Into the Heart of Narcopolitics and Journalism: A Podcast with Melissa del Bosque
May 11, 2023
State Sponsored Vigilantism: A Conversation with Bob Libal about Texas Legislation to Create 'Border Protection Units'
Apr 25, 2023
An Anti-Caste Revolution: A Podcast with Sonny Singh
Apr 13, 2023
Mapping Surveillance in Border Communities: A Conversation with Dave Maass
Mar 28, 2023
The Importance of Cross Border Journalism: A Podcast with Kendal Blust and Murphy Woodhouse
Mar 16, 2023
Laredo's Epic Battle Against Federal and State-Funded Border Walls: A Conversation with Tricia Cortez
Feb 28, 2023
The Colonial Border in the Maasai Mara: A Podcast Interview with Meitamei Olol Dapash
Feb 16, 2023
Warrantless Searches, Stops With No Probable Cause Are Un-American: A Conversation With Sheriff David Hathaway
Feb 14, 2023
'Did the CIA Smuggle Cocaine? Yes, I Witnessed it Firsthand': A Podcast with Sheriff David Hathaway
Jan 31, 2023
When You Have No Country: A Podcast with Axel Kirschner and Levi Vonk, Authors of ‘Border Hacker’
Jan 12, 2023
The Border Wall at the End of the World: A Podcast with Jenny Stümer
Dec 08, 2022
Under Biden, Border Wall Construction Continues. It's Just Called Something Else: A Podcast With Scott Nicol
Nov 29, 2022
The Making of the Narco Narrative: A Podcast with Oswaldo Zavala
Nov 10, 2022
I Was an Asylum Seeker. Now I Help Others: A Podcast with Dora Rodriguez
Oct 25, 2022
Border Violence and Security in a Warming World: A Podcast with Nathan Akehurst and Petra Molnar
Oct 13, 2022
How to Counter the GOP's White Supremacy Campaign Messaging: A Podcast Interview with Zachary Mueller
Sep 27, 2022
Nature Has No Borders: A Live Podcast with Erick Meza of Sierra Club Borderlands
Sep 22, 2022
Challenging Smuggling Myths on the U.S. Mexico Border: A Podcast with Anthropologist Gabriella Sanchez
Sep 08, 2022
A Memoir from the Front Lines of Family Separation: A Podcast with Human Rights Lawyer Efrén Olivares
Aug 30, 2022
The Most Dangerous Police Force: A Podcast with Geographer Reece Jones about His New Book on the Border Patrol
Aug 11, 2022
Black Seminoles in the Borderlands: A Podcast Interview with Windy Goodloe
Jun 28, 2022
Border Hacker: A Podcast with Levi Vonk
Jun 09, 2022
From Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights Activist: A Podcast with Jenn Budd
May 24, 2022
Climate Disaster, Displacement, and Divides: A Podcast with Amali Tower
May 12, 2022
Reporter's Notebook: A Man and his Rake Against Anti-Immigrant Hate in Yuma, Arizona
Apr 26, 2022
Acts of Resistance and Faith: An Interview with the Rev. John Fife on Founding the Sanctuary Movement, and the Ongoing Struggle for Human Rights in the Borderlands
Apr 19, 2022
“Lines of Life and Death”: A Podcast with Geographer Joseph Nevins on Global Apartheid and the Right to the World
Apr 14, 2022
On Challenging Racism, and Creating a New Narrative about Border and Immigrant Communities: A Podcast Interview with Linguist Otto Santa Ana
Mar 29, 2022
On the Border Watch List: A Podcast Interview with Erika Pinheiro on the Chilling Impact of Surveillance
Mar 10, 2022
I Was a Performer In the "Spectacle" of Border Enforcement: A Podcast Interview with Police Expert Eric Gamino
Feb 22, 2022
Blockading the Border Bulldozers: Amber Lee Ortega on Hia Ced O'odham Resistance
Feb 10, 2022
Standing Up to Armed Militias in the Borderlands: Author Patrick Strickland on Arivaca and Community Resistance
Jan 25, 2022
On America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants: An Audio Interview with César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández on the Politics of Immigration and the Road Ahead in 2022
Jan 13, 2022
The Most Beautiful Place in the World: An Audio Interview with Isabel Garcia about What the Border Could Be
Dec 02, 2021
On 'Remain in Mexico' and Leaving the Biden Administration: An Audio Interview with Stephanie Leutert
Nov 02, 2021
Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: An Audio Interview with Author Oswaldo Zavala
Oct 21, 2021
“Under Occupation”: A Discussion with Amy Juan of the Tohono O’odham Nation
Sep 16, 2021