Reservoirs on the lower Rio Grande fell below 20% full yesterday

Combined storage is dropping about 0.3 percentage points per day

Officials tell me it’s possible the reservoirs dry up entirely this year - a serious disaster

Un orgullo ver cómo transciende el trabajo de nuestra querida Veronica Martinez, una fortaleza del equipo de periodistas de La Verdad 👏👏

This term, I had the chance to design and teach a new course on #AI and #migration at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University York University. With an amazing group of law students we explored surveillance, data colonialism, and resistance, bringing it back to the people affected.

For those interested🧵

Great questions from Todd Miller that got me thinking about the work I’ve been doing about CBP One.

The Digital Border Wall: A Q&A with Journalist Verónica Martínez about the CBP One App theborderchronicle.com/p/the-digital-…
Todd Miller
Melissa del Bosque

Good timing for The Border Chronicle to publish an interview with Verónica Martínez (Veronica Martinez ) about her work on the CBP One app for La Verdad as a fellow of the Migration and Technology Monitor monitor. theborderchronicle.com/p/the-digital-…

Come learn about #bordertech with our amazing Migration and Tech Monitor Fellows La Verdad Veronica Martinez Nery Santaella Voices of Venezuela Wael Qarssifi | وائل Simon RP Srijan-Way To Success

Moderated by Florian Schmitz and me RefugeeLawLab Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, hosted by friends at Mozilla!

New in The Border Chronicle🦂🔥Border 911 and the Cruelty and Chaos Agenda
Former Trump advisers are raising money for Trump while endangering border residents and asylum seekers. A Q&A with Zachary Mueller from America's Voice theborderchronicle.com/p/border-911-a…

from the Border Chronicle with Melissa del Bosque Todd Miller: 911 and the Cruelty and Chaos Agenda

Former Trump advisers are raising money for Trump while endangering border residents and asylum seekers. A Q&A with Zachary.A.Mueller from America’s Voice.

theborderchronicle.com/p/border-911-a…

New in The Border Chronicle 🦂🔥 Can President Biden Really Shut Down Asylum at the Border? A Q&A with Immigration Expert Aaron Reichlin-Melnick Aaron Reichlin-Melnick theborderchronicle.com/p/can-presiden…

open.substack.com/pub/theborderc…
Melissa del Bosque
Todd Miller

In her new book, Silky Shah draws on decades of organizing experience to argue that, without abolitionist principles anchoring the migrant justice movement’s strategy and demands, any attempt at challenging “crimmigration” is doomed to fail. boltsmag.org/beyond-crimmig…

Authorities watched this situation creep up for years, but spent more time insisting that Mexico must provide water under an 80-year-old treaty obligation than they did actually preparing South Texas for water scarcity.

Bridges or Barricades? Debates in the Time of Elections theborderchronicle.com/p/bridges-or-b…
Todd Miller
Melissa del Bosque

Great to be a part of this!

New in The Border Chronicle 🔥🦂 Bridges or Barricades? Debates in the Time of Elections
What did Todd Miller learn (indirectly) from John Bolton? That listening to people across borders is the key to winning debates. theborderchronicle.com/p/bridges-or-b…

Acceleration of deaths💔esp. to women/children-accompanied 'prevention thru deterrence' -USG's govt’s strategy to push migrants into more remote/dangerous crossings. The courts will shut down a Biden attempt to close the border bc of the INA-but-EO may placate Rs for Ukraine aid.

U.S. Expands Immigrant Tracking with GPS Ankle Monitors, Smartwatches @documentedny

documentedny.com/2024/04/08/gps…

Great thread for analysis of policy implication of the Biden Administration's latest border announcement.
Or if you, like most people find border policy head-spinning, then read it as an expression of party desperately clinging to the nation's violent roots while refusing to lead

MUST READ by Melissa del Bosque on how enforcement = more deaths across U.S. Mexico border.

“The report (by No More Deaths | No Más Muertes) covers 15 years, 2008 - 2023, & it shows many disturbing trends, including the acceleration of deaths that has accompanied “prevention through deterrence..”