The Mystical and Militarized Desert
On the Spanish thriller Sirāt, the concept of Saharanism, and our reckoning with narratives about the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
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CBP’s sweeping DNA program places asylum seekers’ genetic profiles in a massive criminal investigations database without their knowledge.
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