An account of my travel to testify in El Paso federal court on October 2, in a hearing to halt border barrier construction in and near Big Bend National Park. We won a key round—a preliminary ...

Latin America this week, that I know about, that can be attended in person in Washington or online anywhere.

I let an LLM crawl my personal database and surface key events, data points, and articles. The LLM provided me with an outline, which I then turned into prose. Guatemala took delivery on its first ...

The Associated Press reports, “The State Department on Tuesday notified Congress that it will reprogram $52 million in foreign military financing from Slovakia, North Macedonia, Tunisia and Iraq to ...

Colombia’s police are reviving aerial fumigation of coca crops with herbicides, with a test project using two planes in Putumayo department. This is almost certainly happening with financial and other ...

Here’s what you get when you tally ICE arrests per month, in the Deportation Data Project’s processed ICE Arrests dataset, excluding likely duplicates, from FOIA-obtained data. 49,091 arrests in July.

A Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report says that ICE’s customs investigative arm, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), has had to cut back on its counter-fentanyl operations ...

The lethal, illegal boat strikes are back, after a 63-day hiatus following the Venezuela earthquakes. Strikes are back despite overwhelming evidence that they are murder; that many, likely most, of ...

For decades, drug lords with names like “El Chapo” and “El Mencho” have been the poster boys of the US fight against Mexican drug trafficking. Now the Trump administration has adopted a new target: ...

As bulldozers plow through Big Bend National Park, Border Patrol apprehended only 98 people in its 517-mile-long Big Bend Sector in July. Big Bend is pink on this migrant apprehensions chart. You can ...

“What began as a warning to European powers evolved into a framework for regional dominance” sounds like a stray line from Open Veins of Latin America. But no, a phrase uttered near the end of this ...

Colored segments are U.S. deportations of Mexican citizens at the land border, into Mexican border states. The shades of gray are deportations deep into Mexico on ICE aircraft—which costs $$$$$.