For years, Flores has served as an immigration policy advisor to Democrats at the national level, including President Biden. She talks about what went wrong, and what Democrats should be doing now.
Cofounder, Editor-in-chief. Based in Tucson, Arizona. Author of Border Patrol Nation, Storming the Wall, Empire of Borders, and Build Bridges Not Walls.
In this exceptionally beautiful swath of the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, there is a collision of expensive border infrastructure construction and increasing numbers of people seeking asylum.
“It’s not difficult to understand that a population that makes its livelihood off the land would find climate change oppressive, and would find climate change to be tantamount to persecution.”
The acclaimed Israeli author and anthropologist explains how Israel has become an enforcer for fortress Global North, selling systems of control first developed in the Palestinian Occupied Territories
The legendary storyteller takes us on a trip through the Arizona borderlands, its sky islands, flora and fauna, all the way to the border wall with Mexico.
By waiving 26 environmental and cultural laws, Biden continues the federal government’s decades-long practice of running roughshod over the borderlands and its people. This op-ed reckons with that.
Renowned Palestinian scientist and environmentalist Mazin Qumsiyeh visits a surveillance tower first tested in the West Bank and speaks of the need for a “joint struggle.”
The sociologist explains how the 1993 border operation remade immigration enforcement. And how now “it’s basically just political posturing, often framed by a good deal of racism.”
