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Militarization, Another Drain on the Río Grande
The Rio Grande enters ... composition of the Río Grande, according to Dr. Adriana Martinez, a researcher in the departments of Environmental Sciences and Geography at Southern Illinois University ...
The Washington Post8mon
The U.S.-Mexico border, the wall and the thousands of acres between them
Across the southern Rio Grande Valley, incomplete border wall segments isolate residents, including Arturo Muñoz, and the Chimney Park neighborhood on the strip of land between the barrier and ...
New Republic1y
Is the Rio Grande Valley Just Lost Now to Democrats?
“We sell a lot of flowers.’’ The Threat of the New Immigration The border has always been the stuff of myth, mystery, and violence, and the Rio Grande Valley has its own distinctive ...
The New York Times1y
That Time Europe Tried to Bring Monarchy Back to Mexico
In “Habsburgs on the Rio Grande,” Raymond Jonas’s story of ... and the country now led a “sad existence” as a shaky, vulnerable republic. Only the resurrection of monarchy could ...
El Paso Times7mon
Holding out hope on the drying Rio Grande
FAR WEST TEXAS—The year was 1897. Flood waters from the Rio Grande submerged entire blocks of downtown El Paso. The New York Times described the crash of crumbling houses and the “cries of ...
Trains.com on MSN3mon
The Rio Grande's Farmington Branch
It was an oddball branch line with a just-as-odd history that is still worth recounting. The Rio Grande's Farmington Branch ...
The Texas Tribune1y
State investigating claim that DPS troopers were told to push migrants back into the Rio Grande and deny them water
Adriana Martinez, an associate professor of geography at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville who studies the effects of border barriers on the Rio Grande, said that immigrant rights ...