Trump's big buoys arrive in Eagle Pass, a border resident arrested for nonviolent protest against wall construction in Zapata County, and catch our podcast with Yes Men prankster, political activist Jacques Servin and Todd who entirely reframe "border security."
This conversation, hosted by Todd Miller, about a great borderlands adobe brick building project is going great, until Jacques Servin—of the political performance artist trickster and activist troupe called the Yes Men—fails to grasp the meaning of the term "border security."
Cofounder, Editor-in-chief. Based in Tucson, Arizona. Author of Border Patrol Nation, Storming the Wall, Empire of Borders, and Build Bridges Not Walls.
If you want to know about what’s to come on the border—what to expect, how it got to this point, and ways to fight back—put everything down right now and give this a listen.
In this reflection and Chihuahua travelogue, I converse with Mexican fishers and farmers about drought, climate change, the incoming U.S. president, the border, and new ways of being in the world.
The prolific author and photographer describes powerful instances of worker resistance and how undocumented labor will be a serious thorn in Trump’s side.
Trump's first run "was all about building the border wall and contriving a fictional ‘bad hombre’ bogeyman to fear and loathe." This time the "tactical dehumanization" has an extra "rabid vigor."
On Election Day, I take a meditative and ultimately inspiring walk along the border wall on the Mexican side. And discover why it is more important than ever to listen to people of the borderlands.
In this on-the-ground letter from the border, we explore how between Arizona and Sonora the razor tech barrier is--and likely will continue to be--a monument to many presidents and policies.
Melissa and Todd on the last time Trump deployed active military to the border; the immigration policy of cansancio in Mexico; and Harris and the Dems’ tough talk on asylum.
