A Return on Our Investment: Border Externalization in “America’s Backyard” under the Biden Administration

Washington has intervened in Latin America several times since the Monroe Doctrine 200 years ago. U.S. border militarization across the Western Hemisphere is this intervention's newest evolution.

This piece was done in collaboration with the online journal Spectre.

The Guatemalan border force known as the Chorti lines up in Zacapa in 2017. The border force is comprised of both police and military units. (Photo credit: Todd Miller)

In April, President Biden’s administration announced that it was going to open migration-processing centers in Colombi…