While Republicans cry “invasion” and Democrats placate them with hard-line border policy, immigrants languish in prisons or die in dangerous passage. A rational approach to immigration must both address the causes of displacement and protect those w
A look at U.S. border externalization, the death it has caused, and the art of negotiating and resisting borders in Maasailand.
Emails obtained by The Texas Tribune and ProPublica confirm that federal authorities are probing discrimination claims involving Gov. Greg Abbott’s multibillion-dollar border initiative.
The New York Democrat also explained how the U.S. carceral system and foreign policy relate to the nation's immigration system.
The border-industrial complex in the post-Trump era
A major Israeli weapons company has been named as one of the top profiteers of US border militarization.
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This book, the first 21st Century study of the frontier myth, writes reviewer Nathans-Kelly, comes at a time when "the United States has turned inward and backward with the same vehemence it once directed toward expansion and progress."
What follows is a chronology of both the physical fortification of the U.S.-Mexico boundary and the psychic investment in such a fortification -- the fantasy, chased by both Democrats and Republicans for more than half a century...
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