This article first appeared in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global Right. Elon Musk has been…
Gaby Del Valle
Gaby Del Valle is a reporter and critic whose work focuses on immigration policy, the Generically used to describe factions of right-wing politics that are outside of and often critical of traditional conservatism. Learn more , and where the two intersect. Her writing has appeared in The Baffler, The Nation, The Drift, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. She currently works as a policy reporter at The Verge. “The Most Surveilled Place in America,” her report on the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border published in The Verge, was a finalist for the 2023 Livingston Award for National Reporting. She is currently working on her first book, BLOOD AND SOIL, a history of the origins of the conservation movement and its leaders’ entanglements with eugenics and A term widely used in both academia and media to indicate beliefs, movements, and policies that limit or discourage immigration, particularly from racially, ethnically, and religiously diverse countries of origin. Learn more , to be published by Bloomsbury Press in 2027.
