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The Border Chronicle podcast is hosted by Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller. Based in Tucson, Arizona, longtime journalists Melissa and Todd speak with fascinating fronterizos, community leaders, activists, artists and more at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Border Chronicle podcast is hosted by Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller. Based in Tucson, Arizona, longtime journalists Melissa and Todd speak with fascinating fronterizos, community leaders, activists, artists and more at the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Border Chronicle is hosted by Melissa del Bosque and. The show has published 142 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include ""The Earth Literally Ripped Open": A Podcast with Mary Reynolds, Author of The Quake that Drained the Desert" (15 October 2026, 41 minutes), "The Border Chronicle Turns Five. What’s Next?" (17 September 2026, 55 minutes), and "Wall Watch: Mapping Trump’s $46 Billion Border Mega-Project" (25 August 2026, 54 minutes).
The Border Chronicle publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 49 minutes across 142 episodes.
Booking probability for The Border Chronicle is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Border Chronicle requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Border Chronicle's contact route on record: verified email.
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Melissa del Bosque and hosts The Border Chronicle, a news podcast with 142 episodes published.
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Episode #143
At three p.m. on May 3, 1887, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck Bavispe, Sonora, and reverberated throughout the borderlands. Some fifty people perished, crushed by collapsing roofs that moments earlier had been...
Episode #142
Founders Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller join editor and reporter Caroline Tracey to revisit the newsroom’s beginnings, the stories that have defined it, and to celebrate its next chapter.
What’s bigger than the Hoover Dam or the Panama Canal? The Trump Administration’s spending of more than $46 billion in taxpayer money on border walls, and buoy barriers across the 1,954-mile border. The government...
A vivid depiction of what has been happening during the last eight weeks of resistance of border wall construction in Arizona’s San Raphael Valley. It took several attempts to get this podcast interview with Kate Scott...
In February, the country broke an ominous record: over 68,000 people were being held in detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, more than ever before. President Trump has set a goal of deporting one million...
Border Chronicle founders, Todd and Melissa , talk about how law enforcement surveillance, high-speed chases instigated by Border Patrol, unwarranted searches and seizures, and other heavy-handed policing that border...
This conversation, hosted by Todd Miller, about a great borderlands adobe brick building project is going great, until Jacques Servin —of the political performance artist trickster and activist troupe called the Yes Men...
Gabriela Rangel, director of Tucson’s Museum of Contemporary Art , was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. As a curator focusing on Latin American art, she’s worked at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Americas...
José Olivares is an independent investigative journalist and audio producer who reports on immigration enforcement, U.S. operations in Latin America, and human rights. He is also the podcast editor for The Border...
Episode #133
In January 2025, the Trump administration declared a national emergency at the southern border and directed the military to take control of large expanses of the border, which include major cities like El Paso, McAllen...
When Alex González Ormerod, editor of the Mexico Political Economist , started researching his book about the Mexican right wing, he found an odd pattern: many of his interviewees didn’t identify as part of the Right...
Episode #131
Resistance can take many forms . One of them, as Amy Juan of the Tohono O’odham explains here, is for people to come together to run in unity, prayer, and witness across traditional O’odham land, crisscrossing the...
For Lydia Otero , researching the history of the Southwest is personal and political. Growing up in Tucson, Arizona, their family frequented a place they called La Calle that was bustling with shops and pedestrians. The...
Episode #129
Tombstone, Arizona calls itself “The Town too Tough to Die.” It has an Old West-themed Main Street and daily re-enactments of gunfights. For most people, it’s a place to briefly drop into in order to experience a...
Episode #128
In the spirit of broadening the analysis beyond ICE, Border Chronicle cofounders Melissa del Bosque and Todd Miller discuss the leading role the U.S. Border Patrol has played in violent operations across the country. We...
Episode #127
This has been a difficult week, as many mourn the deaths of Renee Good and others at the hands of ICE. As enforcement actions escalate across the country, the whole country becomes part of the borderlands, and...
I’ve been speaking with Jenn Budd for years about Border Patrol crimes, impunity and how the agency could be (and should be reformed.) But both Democrats and Republicans have refused to demand oversight and...
Episode #125
This Week in The Border Chronicle : More News from the Border: River wall: Feds deploying 500-miles of water barriers near Brownsville MyRGV.com San Diego sues federal government over concertina wire fence at border...
Episode #124
Support local independent journalism from the U.S.-Mexico border today. Become a paid subscriber for just $6 a month or $60 a year at https://www.theborderchronicle.com/ Get full access to The Border Chronicle at...
Episode #123
This Week in The Border Chronicle: More News from the Border: The Trump administration announced this week that it will further militarize the California-Mexico border by creating another national defense area, which...
Recent guests on The Border Chronicle. Study who booked and why before you pitch.
author of The Case for Open Borders, National Tenant Union Federation
staff writer at The Argument and host of the New Liberal Podcast, National Association of Immigration Judges
women’s health researcher, Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project
teaching and research assistant, Redlands Christian Migrant Association
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