‘If we can stop it here, we can stop it everywhere’
A conversation with a land defender at the border wall tree sit
Writing on the Wall
Essays, reporting, criticism, and interviews on border fascism and the polycrisis in América, and beyond
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Deaths Out of Custody
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano died after being 'released' from an ICE concentration camp—in a coma. His case illustrates how the agency disappears the true human toll of detention.
BREAKING: Tree sit aims to block border wall construction
The action is reportedly the first tree sit in the U.S. to attempt to stop construction of a border barrier. Land defenders on the ground are asking people to show up and support.
ICE killings: Naming the dead
At least 33 people have died at the hands of U.S. 'immigration enforcement' so far in 2026—a year on pace to break all records. These are their names.
'Solo el migrante salva al migrante': Surviving ICE terror in New Orleans
Exiled Salvadoran journalist Óscar Martínez profiles migrant mutual-aid organizer Leticia Casildo, in my translation — and two other crónicas from the El Faro archives...
Wrenches in the Gears
For those who missed it: My conversation with Panagioti Tsolkas, on Alligator Alcatraz and the fight against toxic prisons
Border Patrol shoots and critically injures person in southern Arizona
Emergency crews “found the patient in custody and in critical condition” 15 miles north of the US-Mexico border.
Fearing for his life, an agent fired a defensive shot
Trump's theater of fascist terror raises the curtains on its catastasis
Border Patrol raids No More Deaths aid camp, arrests three people
The raid is the first time NMD aid workers have witnessed agents breaking into constitutionally protected structures without a warrant—a significant escalation against humanitarian aid at the border.
“In Guatemala, we don’t live with the truth”
El Faro interviews Guatemalan performance artist Regina José Galindo, in my translation