Politics
From Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights Activist: A Podcast with Jenn Budd
Budd's new book "Against the Wall" takes an unflinching look at the systemic misogyny and racism in the Border Patrol, and overcoming a childhood of trauma and abuse.
How YouTube is Promoting White Supremacy to Young Viewers: A Q&A with Shauna Siggelkow
"The 'Great Replacement' isn't new. It’s just that it's been packaged for the digital age in a very effective way."
The Things They Carried: Is the Border Patrol discarding asylum seekers’ documents?
In Arizona and Texas, border residents are noticing more and more personal belongings left behind, including confidential documents, along the U.S. side of the border wall.
An Open Letter to the Biden Administration: It’s Time to Lean In to the “Open Borders” Accusations
C’mon President Biden, let’s stare down the real crisis on the border, the crisis of imagination. It is possible to do things another way.
“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 Border Patrol Union Leads the Charge on Title 42 Misinformation
With so much misinformation circulating about border and immigration policies, it doesn’t help to have Border Patrol union leaders stoking fear and white-supremacist conspiracy theories
“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.
On Challenging Racism, and Creating a New Narrative about Border and Immigrant Communities: A Podcast Interview with Linguist Otto Santa Ana
An expert in critical discourse analysis, Santa Ana is a professor emeritus at the University of California in Los Angeles, where he’s spent decades analyzing political speech and media representations of Latinos and immigrants.
"Humanitarians" with Guns
Meet the vigilante group, and QAnon conspiracy theorists, intercepting unaccompanied minors at the Arizona-Mexico Border, and the Border Patrol seems fine with it.
On the Border Watch List: A Podcast Interview with Erika Pinheiro on the Chilling Impact of Surveillance
Al Otro Lado’s Tijuana-based litigation and policy director examines the border, past, present, and future, through the lens of the invasive and futuristic surveillance apparatus that is already here.
The Everyday Mistreatment of Transfronterizo Commuters on the Mexico-U.S. Border: A Q&A with Borderlands Scholar Estefanía Castañeda Pérez
Crossing the border everyday brings the normalization of surveillance and interrogation, but what happens if you refuse to comply with the CBP facial recognition camera?
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