Smuggler is the first time I've written a book about a single person... Thankfully he likes it and today I found out he's already made cards featuring the book cover

🎙️🎧 In the latest epsiode of the @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices podcast, I talked with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social about why the Gulf is so geopolitically important? voices-the-eisa-podcast.podigee.io/43-new-episode

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

Border wall impeding wildlife access to vital water sources in the Lower Rio Grande Valley onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #conservation #ecology #geography #borderwall #water

At the 2026 Border Security Expo in Phoenix, CBP & ICE have already contracted $25.8B this fiscal year, nearly 3x the previous record. Border Czar Homan was named Person of the Year. Todd Miller reports from inside. Read the full on-the-ground report.🦂🔗

$25.8B in border contracts. A spending expo. El Paso's forgotten immigrant history. This week we went inside the border industrial complex, and uncovers the stories power doesn't want told. Read full Roundup🦂🔗:

Border wall impeding wildlife access to vital water sources in the Lower Rio Grande Valley onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... #conservation #ecology #geography #borderwall #water

Homicides, clearly. They are not accidental deaths. They were designed to happen

Portion of newly built border wall not holding up well in San Rafael Valley Sources: sfba.social/@Mikal/11650... www.instagram.com/p/DXz88PlAWxu/

“[V]isual domination is constantly challenged by migrants' attempts to evade the police gaze, creating a mobile geography of pursuit in which both sides—border police and migrants—seek to see without being seen” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Third-Country Removal Tracker has been updated with yesterday's transfer of three people to Equatorial Guinea and today's likely transfer of an unknown number of Ukrainians to Poland. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...

In ‘Border Afterlives’ Gabriella Soto examines postmortem journeys, revealing how border policies generate deaths. Soto argues these deaths should be understood as structural homicides & that the forensic neglect they face is a form of ongoing violence uapress.arizona.edu/book/border-...

Really glad to see this finally getting discussed. Although it does not really touch on Dubai's central role as a humanitarian logistics hub and the decisions of many agencies to put too many of their eggs in that basket rather than spreading logistical risk. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Important new book by Gabriella Soto. Check it out!

“California is preparing to share with an outside organization detailed information about driver’s license holders, including immigrants who do not have legal authorization to live in the U.S. That breaks a promise the state made a decade ago…”

My third and final progress report on Political Geography is out and open access. This one covers recent work on Authoritarian Geographies journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Are migrant border deaths accidents, or homicides? Archaeologist Gabriella Soto says the answer is clear, and it's written into U.S. policy. Her new book Border Afterlives is out now. Full Q&A🔗🦂:

You can find Gabriella’s new book, Border Afterlives, at uapress.arizona.edu/book/border-...

A Q&A with Human Rights Archaeologist Gabriella Soto www.theborderchronicle.com/a-q-a-with-h... from: @cetracey.bsky.social at @theborderchronicle.bsky.social

“[A]mid deepening domestic and geopolitical pressures… Saïed wants to revisit the deal explicitly as a tool to recover what he calls "stolen funds" held abroad and to shift the relationship from a "client" dynamic toward a more reciprocal partnership.” www.infomigrants.net/en/post/7052...

Hassan Ould Moctar “demonstrates how the EU border regime intervenes within a colonially inherited framework of racialized territorial belonging and capitalism's wasteful dynamics in the Global South” www.bloomsbury.com/us/after-bor...

Wildlife crossings reduce road-collisions with large mammals by 83% journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... preventing potential fatal car accidents www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Global modeling framework ML models + geospatial analysis = H5N1 outbreak risk under varying conditions. livestock density and anthropogenic variables were the strongest correlates of outbreak occurrence. Strong seasonal risk pattern. 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/...

Europe’s surveillance deportation regime has “concerning parallels with the trajectory of immigration control in the US.” odi.org/en/insights/...

U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. https://scim.ag/4cxQWhl

“Soto argues that these deaths should be understood as structural homicides and that the forensic neglect they face is a form of ongoing violence.” uapress.arizona.edu/book/border-...

ASU professor Gabriella Soto details the haunting consequences of migrant deaths in her book 'Border Afterlives' www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

For a while now, ASU professor Gabriella Soto has been working to count migrant deaths at the border in Pima County. Soto knew the work they were doing was important, but in 2011, they realized just how important.

Selective access to public lands has obscured the scale of migrant deaths, “contributing to the disappearance of thousands of unauthorized border crossers over time” doi.org/10.1080/2469... #geography #border #policy #biometeorology #counterforensics

Did you know that tortoises are more versatile in handling a diversity of terrain than the fastest land mammal in the Americas, the pronghorn? link.springer.com/article/10.1... #slowandsteady #wildlife #landscapecology

Amplifying vulnerability: State policy and the consolidation of a migratory chokepoint on Mexico's southern border www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

One small cat and 178 kilometers: longest-known displacement movement by an endangered ocelot theryanotes.mastozoologiamexicana.com/index.php/th...

As ICE vastly expands its detention portfolio, analytical responses must consider the history of failed crimmigration, so as to reorient towards a different future. Read the latest blog post by @hallamtuck.bsky.social 👇 blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...

“The physical manifestation of this digital integration rises twenty floors above downtown Juárez in Torre Centinela, a surveillance tower visible from El Paso that begins operations in April 2026. This centralized command post will monitor 13 cities”

“Grupo Seguritech has secured $1.27 billion in Mexican government contracts since 2012. It “now operates Mexico’s most sophisticated monitoring network—and they’re sharing that data with U.S. border agencies through a quiet agreement” www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I found this piece from 2019 while searching for a lit review: “The continued culture of border killings hampers the bilateral relationships between India and Bangladesh by creating a climate of fear and mutual mistrust.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Extreme heat is already creating “nonsurvivable” conditions for humans in heatwaves that have killed thousands and likely many more, according to new research that warns people are more susceptible to rising temperatures than first thought.

New AI surveillance towers from General Dynamics deployed along U.S.-Mexico border in San Diego www.eastbaytimes.com/2026/04/02/n...

Canon releases box camera “designed for applications such as nighttime border surveillance and maritime monitoring over long distances,” tech.yahoo.com/cameras/arti... likely to be used in “integrated fixed tower (IFT) systems” and “ground and aerial systems” canon-cmos-sensors.com/applications...

What do Argentina's disappeared have to do with migrants dying at the U.S.-Mexico border? More than you think. Watch the exclusive documentary short premiere + Q&A with filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz🦂🔗:

Egypt is systematically arresting and deporting thousands of refugees, regardless of their legal status, in a widening crackdown that has created a climate of terror and left many afraid to leave their homes. Available in RU, AR and PT-BR.

Satellite Companies Restrict Journalists’ Access to Images from the U.S.-Israel war on Iran gijn.org/stories/sate...

Collaborative Scholar Affiliate, Estefanía Castañeda Pérez, Ph.D., authored an op-ed that was published on Monday by the Latino News Network analyzing impunity for misconduct by immigration authorities informed by her research. latinonewsnetwork.com/community/ic...

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social

“How many migrants perish while crossing the Canada-US border? To what extent, if at all, are US and Canadian officials tracking border-crosser deaths in this region? What can we learn from media reporting on this issue?” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

ASU professor Gabriella Soto details the haunting consequences of migrant deaths in her book 'Border Afterlives' www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

www.theborderchronicle.com/the-dna-arch... Sharing this newly published investigation, coreported by me and a colleague. The DNA database crucial in migrant identification in the borderlands for years has itself gone missing. Co-published by @theborderchronicle.bsky.social and @highcountrynews.org

The Colibrí Center's DNA database, built to identify migrants who died crossing the border and reunite families, has gone dark since fall 2024. A board member says it may be destroyed. Hundreds of families are left without answers. In collaboration with @highcountrynews.org 🔗🦂

A key database of migrant DNA has gone missing, after the organization that started it shut down.