Caroline Tracey

Mar 23, 2024 | nybooks.com | Caroline Tracey

Judging from the architectural plans that the Border Patrol presented to Congress in 2009, the I-19 Border Patrol Checkpoint was supposed to be enormous. It was to be built in Tubac, Arizona, some twenty miles north of the conjoined border cities of so-called Ambos Nogales (“Both Nogales”). As freeway traffic approached, personal vehicles would be diverted into seven lanes with inspection booths. Later the engineers deemed the design insufficient: twenty-two lanes were needed.

Mar 5, 2024 | msn.com | Caroline Tracey

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Mar 5, 2024 | theguardian.com | Caroline Tracey

The water level in Oregon’s remote, salty Lake Abert fell to unusually low levels in July 2013. As it did, the salt concentrations became too high even for the few species adapted to its saline waters. Tiny brine shrimp and alkali flies died en masse. By September, so much water had been lost that the salts precipitated into a shimmering white crust of triangular crystals.

Feb 21, 2024 | hcn.org | Caroline Tracey

Concrete fills the landscape at Mexicali, Baja California’s Civic Center, just blocks south of the U.S.-Mexico border. Alongside the neo-brutalist building runs a six-lane boulevard, Calzada de los Presidentes. But on the other side of the calzada, where a dirt slope leads to a line of dilapidated homes, there’s something odd: Every lot has an old hand-built retaining wall. Some are made of stacks of tires, others of corrugated metal panels, wood and other debris.

Feb 21, 2024 | hcn.org | Caroline Tracey

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