What is US Border News?
US Border News follows hundreds of official sources & high-quality unofficial open-source intel sources daily on both sides of the US-Mexico border to identify news & trends before other news organizations report them. Accuracy is a hallmark of our reporting.
We also publish stories from respected non-profit news outlets such as reporters of The States Newsroom as well as The Texas Tribune and The Conversation to broaden our coverage of immigration and border issues.
We adhere to Associated Press style as well as other commonly accepted media guidelines to ensure fairness and balance in our reporting.
Although the bulk of our coverage focuses on border security & immigration-related law enforcement and policies, we also regularly write about border culture & history.
We are just a little over three years old and have generated more than six million article views during that time - and we are growing!
US Border News is edited by Jack Beavers, a veteran Emmy-awarded US journalist who was raised along the Texas border with Mexico. He has lived the issues he now reports on (well before Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs” in 1968).
Jack Beavers has spent time in the field with Border Patrol Agents, has flown with Department of Homeland Security air crews over Texas, sailed with US Coast Guard Crews patrolling the Gulf of Mexico, spent time aboard US Customs & Border Protection watercraft on the Rio Grande, witnessed countless Drug Enforcement Administration operations, and logged many hours with Texas law enforcement officers patrolling the Borderlands.
He has served in many high-profile news management positions, including as Managing Editor of network TV Newsrooms in Dallas, Houston, and Sacramento. He has also held editorial positions in the newsrooms of nationally distributed US TV news programs in Chicago, Washington, DC, and Sacramento for Paramount/Skydance & USA Today.
Jack began publishing articles on Newsbreak.com when the US-Mexico border was out of control along the Rio Grande Border between Mexico & Texas in January 2023,
Since then, he has published 900+ articles on Border Security on the Newsbreak mobile app platform, garnering 74+ million impressions, 6 million+ views, and 25,000+ followers (and his work can still be found today).
However, his US Border News Weekly Newsletters and other subscriber-exclusive articles are now available only on usbordernews.com.
He is a member of many professional journalism organizations including the Online News Association, Society of Professional Journalists, and Investigative Reporters & Editors, and has held memberships and officer positions in the National Association of Television Arts & Sciences, Associated Press Regional News Organizations, as well as the Dallas Press Club.
If you wish to review a comprehensive resume of his journalism experience, you can find his pages on LinkedIn HERE, as well as at MuckRack HERE.
Through it all, Jack has applied his perspective as a native South Texan and border resident to today’s Border Security issues, providing decades of insight into the headlines currently generated along the US-Mexico border.
The border between the US & Mexico is a fascinating and complicated melting pot of cultures, interests, and an ever-changing security and political battleground. Join us at US Border News as we navigate it together.
Contact Us:
US Border News Editor/Publisher Jack Beavers can be contacted by email @ jackbeavers@usbordernews.com
Contributors:
US Border News also publishes many noteworthy contributing voices including:
Presidio Texas County Sheriff Danny Dominguez who wrote about his opposition to the “Big Bend Border Wall.”
Terrell Texas County Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland who wrote about extending compassion to the migrants he arrested illegally crossing his border county.
Photojournalist Natalie Newman who has documented damage done in the Big Bend National Park in preparation for building “border barriers” and “patrol roads.”
Reporters from the following Stateline-affiliated non-profit newsrooms:
Sara Wilson of Colorado Newsline who wrote about Police cooperation with ICE to appear on Colorado ballot
Madison McVan of The Minnesota Reformer who wrote about ICE agent Christian Castro turns himself in
Madison McVan of The Minnesota Reformer, who wrote about Feds charging ICE agent Christian Castro in Minneapolis shooting
Madison McVan of The Minnesota Reformer, who wrote about Minnesota suing Texas over extraditing ICE agent for assault
Tim Henderson of Stateline, who wrote ICE reaches new monthly arrest record
Shalina Chatlani of Stateline, who wrote Can ICE agents be kept out of schools?
Meghnad Bose of the Institute for Public Service Reporting Memphis and was published by The Tennessee Lookout, who wrote about The Bird-Watchers of Memphis
Madison McVan of The Minnesota Reformer, who wrote about ICE arresting dozens of immigrant crime victims
Gloria Rebecca Gomez of The Arizona Mirror who wrote that ‘Children are going to die’: migrant child legal contract questioned
Tim Henderson of Stateline, who reported that The Undocumented US population reached as high as 15.8 million
Ariana Figueroa of The News From The States DC Bureau, who reported that Attempts to halt imminent Haitian and Syrian deportations blocked in US Senate
Ariana Figueroa of The News From The States DC Bureau who reported that Haitian immigrants were bracing for end of protected status
Joshua Bowling of Source New Mexico who reported on the Outcry in New Mexico over Chaco Canyon Protection Rollback
Reporters from the non-profit independent newsroom The Conversation including:
Austin Sarat, Amherst College, who wrote about Trump targeting definition of birthright citizenship
Austin Sarat, Amherst College who wrote about Trump targeting the definition of birthright citizenship
Reporters from the non-profit newsroom of The Texas Tribune including:
Alejandro Serrano and Uriel J. García about a Texas man’s wrongful deportation casts light on ICE partnerships
Alejandro Serrano about a U.S. Citizen Deported to Mexico Allowed to Return
Lomi Kriel about a Prosecutor taking Houston ICE shooting case to grand jury
Gabby Birenbaum about Feds paying Texas $7.5 billion for border security costs
Alejandro Serrano and Gabby Birenbaum about Texas Republicans Cornered by Big Bend Barrier Backlash
Sam Karas of The Big Bend Sentinel (republished by The Texas Tribune) about The Texas Parks Commission inundated with border wall concerns during annual meeting
Alex Nguyen and Berenice Garcia who wrote about an ICE officer in Minnesota-Texas extradition fight freed from jail
A word about our logo:
The US Border News logo was inspired by (but is not a copy of) the logo of the US Border Patrol, about which we frequently report. However, no connection to or endorsement by the agency is claimed or implied.
For those who want to compare the two logos, see the graphics below.
We’ve purposely chosen a different color, font, font placement, border size, and map outline to differentiate our logo from the official agency logo (on the left).
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