Melissa del Bosque

1 week ago | theborderchronicle.com | Melissa del Bosque

President Donald Trump on late Friday issued a new memorandum authorizing the U.S. military to take control of parts of a federal strip of land along the U.S.-Mexico border known as the Roosevelt Reservation, giving the Department of Defense new powers to operate directly on the international line. The Roosevelt Reservation is a 60-foot-wide strip that runs along the southern edge of California, Arizona, and New Mexico. It does not cover the border in Texas, where most land is privately owned.

2 months ago | codastory.com | Francesca D'Annunzio |Melissa del Bosque |Monica Camacho

Jaeson Jones is trained as a cop—not a journalist. Yet the 51-year-old holds a lucrative correspondent contract at one of the country’s most prominent MAGA-aligned television networks. Jones began his police career as a jailer in Hays County, south of Austin, before becoming a narcotics agent and later a captain in the intelligence and counterterrorism unit in the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). After a nearly 30-year career, he retired in 2016.

Jan 21, 2025 | theborderchronicle.com | Melissa del Bosque

For several days, I’ve been mulling over how to write about Trump’s inauguration. I don’t want to be blindsided by his firehose of lies or unwittingly amplify his intimidation tactics. Plenty of media coverage has already portrayed Trump and his reprehensible cabinet members as political geniuses. Take Stephen Miller: he’s nothing more than a garden-variety Machiavellian operator willing to suck up to a strongman to attain power.

Jan 17, 2025 | sacurrent.com | Francesca D'Annunzio |Melissa del Bosque |Monica Camacho

This article was originally published by the Texas Observer, a nonprofit investigative news outlet and magazine. Sign up for their weekly newsletter, or follow them on Facebook and X. Editor’s Note: This report is part of “Seeds of Distrust,” an investigative collaboration between Lighthouse Reports, the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting, the Texas Observer, palabra, and Puente News Collaborative. Jaeson Jones is trained as a cop — not a journalist.

Jan 15, 2025 | palabranahj.org | Francesca D’Annunzio |Melissa del Bosque |Monica Camacho

Jones emphasizes different credentials depending on his audience. Sometimes he speaks as a correspondent for Newsmax, and other times as a member of Border911. In legislative settings, he often emphasizes his DPS career, such as when he advocated designating drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations at a press conference outside the Arizona Capitol.