The Deportation Machine (Review)

The Deportation Machine (Review)

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Goodman provides insight into today’s crises, by documenting the history of three mechanisms of expulsion: formal deportation, voluntary departure (“return”), ...
Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border Around the World by Todd Miller (Image courtesy of Verso Books)

Twenty-First Century Battlefields (Excerpt)

Todd Miller examines the ever-extending reach of U.S. border enforcement in an excerpt from his book Empire of Borders: The Expansion ...
Crosses on the U.S.-Mexico border wall in Nogales, Sonora, commemorate migrants who have died while trying to cross into the United States (Jonathan McIntosh/Flickr)

The Militarization of the Southern Border Is a Long-Standing American Tradition

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Trump’s wall is just the latest incarnation of an old fixation ...
A Chicano mural in San Diego (Jay Galvin/Flickr)

Lessons of the Chicano Movement Today

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Jimmy Patiño’s Raza Si, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego, reveals connections between the early ...
At the already existing border fence that divides Tijuana, Mexico, from Imperial Beach, California. (Photo by Katie Schlechter)

Beyond Trump’s Big, Beautiful Wall

From the print magazine: Trump’s plan to wall off the entire U.S.-Mexico border is just one of a growing list ...
A 2016 “border bottleneck” at the Bridge of the Americas joining El Paso and Juárez. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection/ Wikimedia Commons)

Trump’s Wall at Nixon’s Border

How Richard Nixon’s Operation Intercept laid the foundation for decades of U.S.-Mexico border policy, including Donald Trump’s wall ...
The wall at the Anapra, Chih-Sunland Park, NM border just outside of El Paso (Photo by Molly Molloy)

The Day of the End of the World

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In the wake of the election, thousands of Haitians, Central Americans, and African asylum-seekers remain in limbo on the U.S.-Mexico ...
The Siglo XXI detention center in Tapachula can officially hold up to 1000 people awaiting deportation, but is often overcrowded. (Photo by Laura Weiss)

Central American Refugees Struggle for Protection in Southern Mexico

The U.S. and Mexican government’s prioritization of border security over human security has had dire consequences that must be discussed ...