In the News (interviews and citations)
9/5/23 – Ask PolitiFact: Why are some border gates open in Arizona? PolitiFact (M.R. Uribe)
8/9/23 – How many miles of border wall did Donald Trump build? It depends on how it’s counted. PolitiFact (M.R. Uribe)
1/3/23 – Containers used as a border wall are being removed, but at what cost? Scripps News (A. Guajardo)
11/30/22 – A question for you, dear readers: Have you ever experienced wall sickness? Please let us know in this open thread. The Border Chronicle (T. Miller) [live chat]
4/30/22 – The Border Wall is Outliving Trump. The New Yorker (S. Taladrid) [data citation]
3/13/21 – Work halted on $49M-per-mile border wall through California’s Jacumba Wilderness. Now What? Palm Springs Desert Sun (M. Olalde)
2/10/21 – From ‘pause’ to ‘reverse’: What lies ahead for stopping Trump’s border wall and fixing the damage. Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA). (A. Isacson) [data citation]
1/28/21 – Biden faces call to heal environmental and cultural scars of Trump border wall. The Guardian (N. Lakhani) [data citation]
1/16/21 – ‘My neighbourhood is being destroyed to pacify his supporters’: The race to complete Trump’s wall. The Guardian (S. Gilbert)
12/11/20 – Contractors dynamite mountains, bulldoze desert in race to build Trump’s border wall. NPR (J. Burnett) [data citation]
2/25/20 – Webb County and Laredo coming face to face with the reality of a border wall. The Texas Tribune (J. Aguilar)
2/18/20 – Trump is trampling dozens of laws to build his border wall. Slate (M.J. Stern) [data citation]
1/14/20 – Border wall threatens national wildlife refuge that’s been 40 years in the making. NPR (J. Burnett, M. Peñaloza) [data citation]
10/13/19 – Border wall rising in Arizona, raises concerns among conservationists, Native Tribes. NPR (J. Burnett)
10/11/19 – ‘That is how you cause extinction’: Border wall threatens desert ecology, conservationists say. El Paso Times (L. Villagran)
5/30/19 – Cemeteries and memories stand in border wall’s way Associated Press [also available through other sources, e.g. PBS News Hour, Arizona Daily Star (Tucson), Philadelphia Inquirer)]
3/22/19 – Community Accent Refreshing 90.9 (Lancaster, OH) [new link, now on Facebook]
2/21/19 – US Mexico Border Sinclair Community College (Facebook)
2/16/19 – “Border Barriers” Exhibit Opens at Dayton Peace Museum WDTN-TV (Dayton, OH) 2/16/19 [also featured on WRGT-TV (Dayton, OH)]
2/15/19 – Where the new law permits — and prevents — border barriers. The Washington Post (K. Rabinowitz, T. Meko, and L. Karklis) [map credit]
2/10/19 – Where new border barriers will be erected in the Rio Grande valley. The Washington Post (L. Karklis and T. Meko) [map credit]
2/7/19 – A closed border gate has cut off three Tohono O’odham villages from their closest food supply. Pacific Standard (T. Wiles)
1/10/19 – If Trump gets wall money, nearly half of border could be covered by barriers by 2027 ABC 6 (Columbus, OH) [distributed through Sinclair Broadcast Group; also available through other sources e.g. CBS 6 (Albany, NY), ABC 3 (Pensacola, FL), Fox 26 (Fresno, CA)]
12/27/18 – Trump no cede y exige fondos para completar dos tercios restantes del muro. La Tercera [Santiago, Chile] (F. Rojas A.)
12/10/18 – Interior Dept. officials downplayed federal wildlife experts’ concerns about Trump’s border wall, documents show. The Washington Post (D. Grandoni and J. Eilperin)
11/13/18 – Zinke touts immigration enforcement on public lands. PoliticoPro: E&E News / Energy Wire (K. Brugger)
9/21/18 – Ocelots, butterflies in path of border wall: As DHS waives its way across Texas, Congress is rethinking a thirteen-year-old law. CQ Roll Call (J. Holzman)
9/20/18 – Trump blasts GOP spending plan that lacks money for wall U.S. News & World Report (M. Daly) [photo contribution; distributed through AP; also available on other sites, e.g. Western Journal, Nebraska TV]
9/19/18 – Exhibit showcases images of Mexico border walls, fences Washington Post [review of exhibit; distributed through AP; also available on other sites, e.g. WOSU Public Media, 10TV, Washington Times]
2/11/18 – Face the State with Scott Light 10TV (Columbus, OH).
Madsen Explores Border Issues While on Sabbatical The Ohio State at Newark Profiles November 2017
Border barriers: Could a wall really make the U.S. safer? Ohio State Insights October 2017
600+ companies are bidding to build Trump’s ‘border wall’—including one from Mexico CNBC 3/16/17
Border walls aren’t unheard of, but today they increasingly divide friends, not enemies Los Angeles Times 1/31/17 including my photograph of border wall in Douglas, AZ [article also reprinted as Why nations are fencing off their neighbours — even the ones they call friends The Toronto Star 2/3/17]
Trump’s wall would be hard to build – even if Mexico pays Christian Science Monitor 4/6/16
Ohio State Newark border expert calls Trump wall plan “questionable” Morrow County Sentinel 4/2/16
Op-Eds
How geography explains the diffusion of the coronavirus, Newark Advocate, 1/17/21
Reducing our disposable plastic use in Licking County Newark Advocate 12/29/19
Is the border really more unlawful than Newark? Newark Advocate 12/30/18
Ohio needs Congressional gerrymandering reform Newark Advocate 11/25/17
Barriers, just one element of border enforcement Newark Advocate 12/10/16
Mapping the heavens from Newark Newark Advocate 11/24/15
Geographic literacy as critical as reading Newark Advocate 11/29/14