Gaby Del Valle

Gaby Del Valle is a writer and critic whose work focuses on immigration policy, right-wing political movements, and where the two intersect. Her recent work has examined violent reactions to demographic change, from the 2019 shooting in El Paso to the resurgence of pronatalism among liberals and conservatives alike. Her writing has appeared in The Baffler, The Nation, The Drift, Politico Magazine, The New York Review of Books, and other publications. “The Most Surveilled Place in America,” her report on the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border published in The Verge, where she is a policy reporter, 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 in the United States and early environmentalists’ ties to eugenicist and nativist movements, to be published by Bloomsbury in 2027.