Immigration reporter Daniel Gonzalez travels to the historic center of Mexicali to meet a “pollero,” a man who is paid to get migrants over the border fence and illegally into the United States.To read, watch and learn more on this topic, vis

On patrol with border vigilantes

Sep 19th, 2017 17m 50s

Border reporter Rafael Carranza joins a group of civilian men patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border. They dress in combat gear, carry AR-15s and spend their vacation as part of one of the best-known, and most media-savvy, armed civilian groups in t

Danger in the Bootheel

Sep 19th, 2017 18m 19s

A Border Patrol agent shows reporter Diana Alba Soular what it takes to track signs of movement – and to stay alive – in the vast "Bootheel" of New Mexico, where agents spend hours a day driving and hiking mostly uninhabited borderlands alone,

Losing the jaguar

Sep 19th, 2017 17m 23s

Environmental reporter Brandon Loomis visits the jaguar’s native habitat in Sonora, Mexico, learning that this apex predator will become extinct in the American Southwest if a continuous border wall is built.To read, watch and learn more on t

Joined in faith, divided by a border

Sep 19th, 2017 11m 51s

Border reporter Aileen B. Flores hikes up Mount Cristo Rey, a mountain on the border between El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico, with the Mexicans and Americans who view the site as a sacred homage to Jesus Christ and a symbol of the cities’ ine

Following drugs under, around and through the border

Sep 19th, 2017 13m 8s

Reporter Gustavo Solis meets law-enforcement experts in San Diego, where dense border fencing hasn’t stopped the constant flow of drugs through dozens of huge underground tunnels, an ever-changing array of boats and the San Ysidro Port of Entry

Searching for Carlos

Sep 18th, 2017 15m 23s

Photojournalist David Wallace walks with a woman looking for the remains of her older brother in Arizona’s Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, one of the harshest and most remote places along the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border. To read

Building the wall, at the expense of private property

Sep 18th, 2017 14m 44s

Business reporter Chris Ramirez investigates how much Texas private property would need to be bought or taken in order to build a border wall. The answer will surprise you. Also, what happens when U.S. property ends up on the south side of the

Severing a tribe’s ancestral lands

Sep 18th, 2017 17m 9s

Reporter Dianna M. Náñez joins members of the Tohono O’odham Nation at the border in southern Arizona’s Sonoran Desert, where ancestral lands cross into Mexico. Tribal members are allowed to cross freely back and forth into the Mexican state of

One flew the entire border. The other drove it.

Sep 16th, 2017 39m 44s

Reporters Dennis Wagner and Laura Gómez traversed all 2,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border – Dennis by air, Laura by land. Listen to their stories, their insights, and their tussle over who had it easier.To read, watch and learn more on this

Trailer: Journalists bring you to the U.S.-Mexico border

Aug 29th, 2017 2m 30s

What is life like at the border now, and how would a wall change that? In this new podcast miniseries from the USA TODAY NETWORK, journalists take you with them to California, Arizona, Texas and Mexico to find out. Subscribe now.

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