Because of the recent publication of disturbing articles in the New Yorker and New York Times about the damage being done to people and to animal populations in and near Indigenous communities in the Sonoran Desert, we wish to voice our deep concern.

Ethnobotanist, nature writer and sustainable agriculture advocate Gary Nabhan was another Mexican-identified, Anglo border person with a vision for the future. Founder of Native Seeds/SEARCH, Nabhan held the Kellogg Endowed Chair in Food and Water Security for the Borderlands at the University of Arizona Southwest Center.

Along the southernmost edge of Arizona, where the San Pedro River once flowed freely over the border from its headwaters in Mexico, a 30-foot steel wall slices across the channel.

We hope this guide serves Arizona leadership with the critical information to make urgent policy changes that ensure the safety of every Arizonan. It is almost certain that there will continue to be a large spread of COVID in agriculture that has the potential to affect many Arizonans living in...

In February, President Trump claimed that reinforcing the border wall would prevent the virus from entering the U.S., but COVID-19 was already beginning to spread in the states. “I don’t think the virus checks on borders.”   Tim Steller, The Arizona Daily Star   Before the novel coronavirus claimed its...