Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: August 22

The eery glow of immigration detention prisons at night. It’s not border security, it’s an act of war. And bring on the peacemakers.

This Week in The Border Chronicle:

More News from the Border:

A Stryker combat vehicle deployed in the National Defense Area in New Mexico. (Photo credit: Melissa del Bosque)

Military Preparing Attacks on Mexican Cartels Ken Klippenstein

Mexico Between Drones and Extraditions: Strategic Cooperation or Hidden Submission? Pie de Nota

A Venezuelan Was Detained as a “Documented” Gang Member by ICE, which Refused to Provide Proof Texas Observer

ICE to purchase AI tech that scans eyes to increase deportations AZFamily

Trump wants US-Mexico border wall to be painted black to stop climbers BBC

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Authors

Todd Miller is Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of The Border Chronicle. He is the author of four books that examine border militarization and its externalization, surveillance technology and industry, climate change, and the search for alternatives. His books include Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders (City Lights, 2021) Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (Verso, 2019),  Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (City Lights, 2017), and Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security (City Lights, 2014).

Todd’s forthcoming book is a deep examination of water as a border issue in an age of climate-induced heat waves and drought. It will be published by Seven Stories Press in 2027.

Besides The Border Chronicle, articles by Todd have appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, Guernica, TomDispatch, and Al Jazeera English, among other places. He has also authored and co-authored reports on border surveillance, the border industrial complex, and climate change for the Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute, where he is a fellow.

Todd’s book Storming the Wall received the Izzy Award in 2018 for “path-breaking and in-depth reporting.” He also received first place in “Community immigration reporting” by the Arizona Press Club in 2013. Todd has a bachelor’s degree in Latin American Studies and Journalism from Prescott College, where he is also an adjunct professor.

In his spare time, Todd likes to travel, read, philosophize, and hang out with his two kids—whether it be going to a dance recital or being a basketball coach.