It's Time to Retire the Term “Border Security”
Not only is it a lie, it also prevents us from imagining an alternative for a better world for all people
Robo Dogs and Refugees: The Future of the Global Border Industrial Complex
The future is here, and it’s a nightmare for migrants. Robo-dogs are joining the global arsenal of border enforcement technologies. The consequences will be deadly.
Blockading the Border Bulldozers: Amber Lee Ortega on Hia Ced O'odham Resistance
In this audio interview Ortega discusses why she chose to face a judge in order to protect a sacred spring on the Arizona-Mexico Border.
How to make a border video for your Arizona campaign
These videos look so much the same, they are functionally meaningless. But we watched them all anyway so we could make fun of them.
Borders Are Open for Profit, but Not for People
In a Q&A, prolific author and professor Justin Akers Chacón discusses his new book where he breaks down free trade agreements and argues why the U.S.-Mexico border should be opened for people.
Nogales Is an “Invisible Refugee Camp”
The Biden administration's use of Title 42, rooted in the longstanding deterrence strategy, leaves asylum seekers in the same dangerous, inhumane circumstances as ‘Remain in Mexico,’ but without hope
On America's Obsession with Locking Up Immigrants: An Audio Interview with César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández on the Politics of Immigration and the Road Ahead in 2022
The legal scholar and author of "Crimmigration Law" and "Migrating to Prison" on immigration detention reform, midterm elections, and what he’s watching for in 2022.
How to Stop the Border Militarization Bonanza: A New Divestment List Identifies the Top Companies Involved in Border and Immigration Abuses
In this Q&A, Dov Baum of the American Friends Service Committee identifies corporations profiting from border and immigration enforcement and the "people pressure" needed to counter them.
Posada Sin Fronteras: A Photo Essay from the Borderlands
Our final post of the year looks at the contrast between people celebrating holiday traditions across borders and the U.S. Border Patrol's Operation Santa Claus.
The Most Beautiful Place in the World: An Audio Interview with Isabel Garcia about What the Border Could Be
Southern Arizona’s legendary human rights champion rates the Biden administration’s first year at the border and suggests the time has come for a “quiet revolution.”
Not a Border Crisis: Harsha Walia on Why It’s Time for a New Political Project
Renowned author and scholar explains that it "is not a crisis of the border but one that is due to the border."
