Violence as an Investment Policy, Human Rights Violations as a Business Model

A new report shows that border militarization, mass deportation, organized crime, and free trade are all pieces of the same puzzle.

Border Nativity Scene 2021. Artist: Sebastian Quinac. Photo: Blake Gentry

According to a new report by the Indigenous Alliance Without Borders, the UCLA Latin American Institute and Center for Mexican Studies, border deaths in southern Arizona’s Pima County have nearly doubled since 2019. In December of 2018, the U.S. government implemented Migrant Prote…