For years, Flores has served as an immigration policy advisor to Democrats at the national level, including President Biden. She talks about what went wrong, and what Democrats should be doing now.
In this exceptionally beautiful swath of the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, there is a collision of expensive border infrastructure construction and increasing numbers of people seeking asylum.
The acclaimed Israeli author and anthropologist explains how Israel has become an enforcer for fortress Global North, selling systems of control first developed in the Palestinian Occupied Territories
By waiving 26 environmental and cultural laws, Biden continues the federal government’s decades-long practice of running roughshod over the borderlands and its people. This op-ed reckons with that.
Recorded at the Tin Shed Theater with the wonderful people of Patagonia, Arizona, we talk about Taylor's fascinating career as an educator and artist who challenges our perceptions of borders.
Renowned Palestinian scientist and environmentalist Mazin Qumsiyeh visits a surveillance tower first tested in the West Bank and speaks of the need for a “joint struggle.”
The sociologist explains how the 1993 border operation remade immigration enforcement. And how now “it’s basically just political posturing, often framed by a good deal of racism.”
Washington has intervened in Latin America several times since the Monroe Doctrine 200 years ago. U.S. border militarization across the Western Hemisphere is this intervention's newest evolution.
