How apocalyptic mass fantasies stoked by Hollywood and the media help fuel the border industrial complex
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The Right to Stay Home: A Coffee Cooperative Slows Down Displacement
Café Justo offers a border story like no other. It is a story not of walls, drones, and towers, but of international solidarity, and how a community tended to its own migration crisis.
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The Making of the Narco Narrative: A Podcast with Oswaldo Zavala
An examination of official discourse and the cartel narrative, the national security paradigm, and the drug war as a policy of extermination.
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Finding a Solution to Climate Displacement: Time to Divert Border Enforcement Billions into Loss and Damage Finance
On the cusp of COP27, it is time to build solidarity with the increasing millions displaced by climate, not more deadly walls.
I cowrote this piece with Amali Tower. Please read here at The Border Chronicle.
The Most Dangerous Police Force: A Podcast with Geographer Reece Jones about His New Book on the Border Patrol
Jones discusses why the Border Patrol can racially profile people, why it can operate in a 100-mile zone from all U.S. borders, and how it “can look a lot like an authoritarian militia force.”
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The Officer of the Future: Facial Recognition and the Border-Industrial Complex
“The face that God gave you the day you were born will be your passport.”
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Reporter’s Notebook: The Border Creates Tragedy by Design
The border, its dread and its promise: a photo essay from Nogales, Sonora, on the day after the tragedy in San Antonio.
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Cementing a State of Exception in the Borderlands: How a Supreme Court Ruling Impacts the Tohono O’odham Nation
In the “Constitution-mangled zone” in the borderlands, Tohono O’odham say Supreme Court ruling fortifies an occupation.
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Border Hacker: A Podcast with Levi Vonk
A rare in-depth look inside a migrant caravan and Mexico’s amped-up border enforcement, along with scathing revelations about humanitarian networks on the Mexican migrant trail.
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The Adulation of the Gun: How Border Militarization Fuels America’s Gun Obsession
From Uvalde, Texas, to Portland, Oregon, Border Patrol’s BORTAC is part of a growing homeland security army.
Read this piece here at The Border Chronicle.