Border Security

Don't miss the open access and Spanish language content from our Spring 2026 issue.

This issue of the NACLA Report examines the consolidation of a hemispheric bordering regime whose violence now extends far beyond any

As U.S. immigration policies reverberate across the Americas, a reverse migration to the south reshapes border economies and the realities of life and struggle on the move.

El nexos entre la externalización de las políticas de migración y grandes proyectos militarizados en el corredor migratorio mas grande del mundo.

Even as borders harden, life continues to exceed them. The Spring 2026 issue of the NACLA Report traces how border violence has moved from the margins to the center of political life across the Americas.

Reflections on empire, genocide, and the violence that has come home to roost.

[CLOSED] NACLA is currently accepting proposals for our Winter 2025 issue on the Americas as both site and system of imperial experimentation and return. Send us your pitches by May 2, 2025.

Mexico's experience with the militarization of prohibition and migration is defined by violence and displacement.

Two recent books offer nuanced explanations behind the increased violence and militarization toward criminalized immigration in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.

The fire that killed 40 people on March 27 is the foreseeable consequence of binational immigration enforcement measures by the United States and Mexico.

Felicity Amaya Schaeffer's book effectively centers Indigenous struggles within the discourse of the border, but her efforts to assume an Indigenous point of view fall short.

The militarized war on drugs, strict U.S. immigration policy, maquiladora development, and misogyny are all part of the cocktail fueling cycles of crime and abuse in a violent border city.