# Writing on the Wall Essays, reporting, criticism, and interviews on border fascism and the polycrisis in América, and beyond Page: Feed: --- ## [‘If we can stop it here, we can stop it everywhere’](https://maxgranger.substack.com/p/if-we-can-stop-it-here-we-can-stop) _2026-08-05 · Max Granger_ A conversation with a land defender at the border wall tree sit ## [Deaths Out of Custody](https://maxgranger.substack.com/p/deaths-out-of-custody) _2026-08-01 · Max Granger_ 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](https://maxgranger.substack.com/p/breaking-tree-sit-aims-to-block-border) _2026-07-29 · Max Granger_ 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](https://maxgranger.substack.com/p/ice-killings-naming-the-dead) _2026-07-23 · Max Granger_ 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](https://maxgranger.substack.com/p/solo-el-migrante-salva-al-migrante) _2026-06-17 · Max Granger_ 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](https://maxgranger.substack.com/p/wrenches-in-the-gears) _2026-05-20 · Max Granger_ 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](https://maxgranger.substack.com/p/breaking-border-patrol-shoots-person) _2026-01-27 · Max Granger_ 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](https://maxgranger.substack.com/p/fearing-for-his-life-an-agent-fired) _2026-01-11 · Max Granger_ Trump's theater of fascist terror raises the curtains on its catastasis ## [Border Patrol raids No More Deaths aid camp, arrests three people](https://maxgranger.substack.com/p/border-patrol-raids-no-more-deaths) _2025-12-01 · Max Granger_ 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. ## [Watch Chovy Code Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/X0xkGPQlwf9c) _2025-12-01 · **Sponsored**_ Join live coding streams with real-time collaborative screen sharing, open source and free. ## [“In Guatemala, we don’t live with the truth”](https://maxgranger.substack.com/p/in-guatemala-we-dont-live-with-the) _2025-11-17 · Max Granger_ El Faro interviews Guatemalan performance artist Regina José Galindo, in my translation