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The Border Chronicle Weekly Roundup: November 21

Illegal boat strikes are part of Trump's plan to militarize domestic policy, and a new exhibition in Tucson commemorates community resistance to the borderlands’ military-industrial complex

This Week in The Border Chronicle:

From Impunity at the Border to Illegal Boat Strikes: A Podcast with Jonathan Blitzer

From Impunity at the Border to Illegal Boat Strikes: A Podcast with Jonathan Blitzer

Jonathan Blitzer is a staff writer at The New Yorker who covers immigration, politics, and foreign affairs for the magazine. His recent piece for the magazine, “The Real Target of Trump’s War on Drug Boats,” highlights Stephen Miller, homeland security adviser to President Trump, as a driving force, along with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, behind the …

How Do You Live in a ‘Disabled Ecology’?

How Do You Live in a ‘Disabled Ecology’?

For the next seven months, a living room will occupy the northeast corner of the Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art. There, visitors will find a couch draped with a crocheted blanket, a television set playing an episode of Frontline from 1988, and a basket stacked with photocopied fo…

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