Podcasts by The Wall: Reporting on the Border
For almost 2,000 miles, one line defines a country and divides the world. What is life like at the U.S.-Mexico border now, and how would a wall change that? In this podcast, journalists take you with them to the border to find out.
Meet a human smuggler. Ride with armed vigilantes. Get bitten – lightly! – by a jaguar. Fly over the entire border line.
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Danger in the Bootheel from 2017-09-19T00:00
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 ...
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On patrol with border vigilantes from 2017-09-19T00:00
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, a...
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Joined in faith, divided by a border from 2017-09-19T00:00
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 ...
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Following drugs under, around and through the border from 2017-09-19T00:00
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 ...
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Losing the jaguar from 2017-09-19T00:00
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 wal...
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Severing a tribe’s ancestral lands from 2017-09-18T00:00
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 ...
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Building the wall, at the expense of private property from 2017-09-18T00:00
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 ...
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Searching for Carlos from 2017-09-18T00:00
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 ...
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One flew the entire border. The other drove it. from 2017-09-16T00:00
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...
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