Border Militarization
Climate Disaster, Displacement, and Divides: A Podcast with Amali Tower
“Now more than three times as many people are displaced by climate disasters and extreme weather events than conflict or violence.”
The Border-Industrial Complex in the Biden Era
Robotic Dogs and Autonomous Surveillance Towers Are the New Wall
“Lines of Life and Death”: A Podcast with Geographer Joseph Nevins on Global Apartheid and the Right to the World
Lauded border scholar Joseph Nevins dissects the global border apparatus, shows its parallels with South African apartheid, and calls for both freedom of movement and the right to stay home
“The American Homeland Is the Planet”: How the U.S. Exports Its Border to Ukraine
Since 9/11 the United States has expanded its southwestern border enforcement abroad. Yes, even to Ukraine.
Reporter's Notebook: This Year's Border Security Expo in San Antonio Was the Biggest Ever: “Why Would You Even Want a Solution?”
Robo-dogs, ghost drones, Palmer Luckey, and protestors outside, plus other observations from my week at the Border Security Expo in Texas
Cruelty as Border Policy: The Biden Administration Keeps in Place CBP’s “Consequence Delivery System”
Biden is maintaining long-standing deterrence policies that systematically create suffering for migrant families, according to new CBP documents obtained by the National Immigrant Justice Center
It's Time to Retire the Term “Border Security”
Not only is it a lie, it also prevents us from imagining an alternative for a better world for all people
I Was a Performer In the "Spectacle" of Border Enforcement: A Podcast Interview with Police Expert Eric Gamino
The former South Texas police officer talks about working a “surge” on the Texas-Mexico border, and playing a role in “border theater.”
Robo Dogs and Refugees: The Future of the Global Border Industrial Complex
The future is here, and it’s a nightmare for migrants. Robo-dogs are joining the global arsenal of border enforcement technologies. The consequences will be deadly.
Blockading the Border Bulldozers: Amber Lee Ortega on Hia Ced O'odham Resistance
In this audio interview Ortega discusses why she chose to face a judge in order to protect a sacred spring on the Arizona-Mexico Border.
Borders Are Open for Profit, but Not for People
In a Q&A, prolific author and professor Justin Akers Chacón discusses his new book where he breaks down free trade agreements and argues why the U.S.-Mexico border should be opened for people.
Standing Up to Armed Militias in the Borderlands: Author Patrick Strickland on Arivaca and Community Resistance
The author on his new book "The Marauders," the rise of far-right extremism in Europe and the American borderlands and what communities can learn from Arivaca, Arizona