Washington’s Prying Eyes
The NSA disclosures, Latin American backlash, and what it means for hemispheric relations ...
Bringing the Battlefield to the Border: The Wild World of Border Security and Boundary Building in A...
As the Border Security Expo 2012 shows, the Arizona-Mexico border region is Ground Zero for the development of an immigration ...
A Dangerously Slippery Slope: Drones and the Dream of Remote Control in the Borderlands
As the presence of drone in the U.S. borderlands becomes more pronounced, important lessons are to be drawn—from abroad and ...
Secure the Border’: The Sonic Barrier Consensus
In February, I visited the American Border Patrol (ABP), the vigilante group that claims to be the first to have ...
Nogales, Arizona: The Border Patrol’s War Without End
A recent visit to Nogales, Arizona, and to the U.S. Border Patrol station there—the country's largest—brings home the dramatic transformation ...
Strykers on the Border
On February 26, I was driving with a friend in an isolated region of the U.S.-Mexico border in New Mexico ...
Border Patrol Youth
Maintaining inequality and injustice requires work, and the policing of the associated boundaries between the privileged and the disadvantaged. Increasingly, ...
The Railroading of Border Security
A recent report on Border Patrol transportation raids in northern New York State demonstrates how "security" penetrates society in a ...