The anthropologist studies the objects left behind by migrants as they cross the border.
Mexico
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
TFW You’re Training the Worker That Will Take Your Job Away
What do you do when you’ve only got a G.E.D and your high-paying union job goes to Mexico?
Posted inEditor's Pick
Two Brothers, Two Earthquakes
On Sept. 19, 2017 a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck Mexico, sending panicked residents fleeing into the streets. For two brothers the fear was familiar—they had experienced this exactly 32 years before.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Exploiting Mexico’s Indigenous People to Get the West Its Drugs
How Mexican drug cartels prey on the indigenous Tarahumara people, using endurance runners to run drugs across the border.
Posted inCurrent Events, Quotes
The American Dental Refugees of Mexico’s ‘Molar City’
Los Algodones is a popular destination for people in search of cheap dental care — many of whom voted for Trump.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
Something Unspeakable Happened in Allende, Mexico
Seven years after a vicious drug cartel massacre, residents are still looking for answers about the fates of their loved ones.
Posted inEditor's Pick
How the U.S. Triggered a Massacre in Mexico
The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border — and the U.S. drug operation that sparked it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Crime, Nonfiction, Quotes, Uncategorized
Treating Our Border As a Battle Zone
Twenty years after Marines fatally shot an innocent 18-year old man in West Texas, the War on Drugs and militarization of the US-Mexico border has left many local people feeling less safe.
Posted inEditor's Pick
How the Aztecs Predicted the Apocalypse
But then it didn’t happen. Or did it?
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
The Faces of Deportation in Southern California
Trump’s immigration policy has exiled tax-paying, working-class people of Mexican descent to limbo in Tijuana.