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@memomiller

3 years

Open borders for extractive industry

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"Deployments have been in the following states: Illinois, New York, Ohio, Texas, Michigan, California, Florida, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Washington D.C." With "1 Bearcat, 50 marked vehiclces, 52 unmarked vehicles, 2 ATVs, and 3 vessels to assist with civil disturbance..."

Ken Klippenstein

@kenklippenstein

4 years

CBP has deployed 2,174 personnel, 46 aircraft and 2 drones to assist dozens of police departments across the country since June, per CBP document leaked to me. This operation is much, much bigger than just Portland:

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Border militarization is bipartisan.

Laiken Jordahl

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BREAKING: Biden admin will waive 26 laws to build border walls through South Texas wildlife refuge & nearby communities. Biden's DHS will take “immediate action" to speed wall construction, casting aside protections for endangered species, clean water, Indigenous graves & more.

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Words of Bill Clinton in 1995 as he oversaw an upsurge of border and immigration enforcement funding that would become foundational for today’s cruel and massive apparatus that tears families apart.

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Since 1900 the United States has contaminated the atmosphere with 700 times more carbon emissions than Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador combined. But people in Central America have no say in our elections.

Lirio Gutiérrez Rivera

@lirio_gutierrez

4 years

#EtaHurricane has left La Lima, Honduras practically underwater..... it’s worse than Hurricane Mitch ....

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6 years

Perhaps the first step of the Green New Deal would be to dissolve the Senate.

Kate Aronoff

@KateAronoff

6 years

A stirring argument against the Green New Deal:

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5 years

If somebody from another country were to ask me to briefly describe the United States, perhaps I would send them this video clip of the AZ Attorney General celebrating the legalization of nunchucks.

Mark Brnovich

@GeneralBrnovich

5 years

Clearly, my years of martial arts training paid off. Pulled my old nunchaku out of storage...like riding a bike. #WayOfTheDragon

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And why is it so dangerous? Because the long-standing bipartisan militarization of the US border (and its extensions in Mexico and Central America) has purposely made it that way. The Biden Administration is continuing “prevention through deterrence.”

The Recount

@therecount

3 years

“I want to be clear to folks in this region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come.” — VP Kamala Harris during news conference with Guatemalan president Alejandro Giammattei

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Or maybe, and I say this with great sadness, these policies and practices of forced separation, incarceration, expulsion, and banishment while exacerbated by today’s govt, started long before Trump.

Chris Hayes

@chrislhayes

6 years

Just a thought but maybe the US government is treating immigrant children like livestock because the president sees them as animals.

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4 years

And the Department of Homeland Security

Verso Books

@VersoBooks

4 years

While we're calling for defunding the police, let's also defund the military.

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6 years

I'm happy to announce that my new book on the expansion of the U.S. border around the world, Empire of Borders, will be out this July with @VersoBooks .

Empire of Borders

The twenty-first century has witnessed the rapid hardening of international borders. Security, surveillance, and militarization are widening the chasm between those who travel where they please and...

www.versobooks.com

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3 years

"Agents say the extreme terrain combined with the heat and not being able to carry enough water is comparable to jumping into a pot of boiling water and expecting to survive." Unmentioned is that this has been the border strategy for more than two decades. 11 dead so far in June

KOLDNews

@KOLDNews

3 years

Extreme heat leads to record number of calls for help along the border, migrant deaths >>

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On August 6, a Haitian man died in immigration detention in Tapachula, Mexico after pleading for medical attention for hours.

La 72

@La72Tenosique

5 years

Muere una persona migrante de origen haitiana dentro de la Estación Migratoria Siglo XXI en Tapachula. Vergonzosa, horrenda la respuesta del Estado Mexicano frente la migración forzada.

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I know Kristof is framing this as a departure, but it is a typical liberal take. Border enforcement and its horrors are only worthy of concern if someone like trump is president. Yet border enforcement, immigration detention, and mass deportation remain firmly bipartisan.

Nicholas Kristof

@NickKristof

4 months

I wouldn't have written this column a couple of years ago, but here goes: I think Biden was right to curb immigration. We liberals were pushed to the left on borders by Trump's family separation horrors, and it's time to recover a middle ground:

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The all she’s saying is that the journey is dangerous narrative doesn’t work because US border strategy by its very design is meant to make the journey dangerous. On purpose. And this is the case whether on the US Mexico border or via its externalization to Mexico and beyond.

The Recount

@therecount

3 years

Press Sec. Psaki attempts to clarify VP Harris's comments on migration:

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Border Patrol entered with a Bearcat tank.

No More Deaths | No Más Muertes

@NoMoreDeaths

4 years

NEW PHOTOS: One volunteer was able to get a few pictures from inside camp when BORTAC and Border Patrol entered. Heavily armed agents drove straight into the humanitarian aid camp in a Bearcat tank as helicopters circled overhead.

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Where does Mexico get considerable funding and training for border militarization? From the United States. As one US official put it: “The Guatemalan border with Chiapas is now our southern border.”

Carlos Mendoza

@CarlosMendozaR_

5 years

Enfrentamientos entre integrantes de la #CaravanaMigrante y la #GuardiaNacional de #M éxico al cruzar el Río Suchiate que divide #Guatemala y México #Honduras 👇🏾

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“Guatemala became the first country to ban Americans”

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@ESMcIntyre

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Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei announced Americans will not be allowed into the country beginning Monday.

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Roadrunner faces off against the razor-wired border wall. Photograph by Alejandro Prieto.

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1 year

All signs show that Biden has been an excellent steward to the border industrial complex.

Max Granger

@_maxgranger

1 year

In 2020, Biden received THREE TIMES more campaign contributions from the border security industry than Trump. The border wall system was designed and expanded by Democrats. If you’re surprised he lied about building the wall, you haven’t been paying attention.

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Remember those back to back super hurricanes that hit Honduras and Nicaragua late last year? Remember how much pressure the United States puts on (and money it throws at) Mexico to militarize it’s southern border with Guatemala? It’s all coming to a head.

ASIER VERA

@ASIERVERA

4 years

#M éxico no confía en que #Guatemala y #Honduras frene la #CaravanaMigrante y monta un dispositivo de policías y militares como si hubiera una guerra y no personas huyendo de la violencia, la miseria, los desastres naturales y la falta de oportunidades.

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3 years

Besides repeating Border Patrol taking points and not mentioning the long-standing deterrence strategy that forces people into the mountains, you have left Tucson misspelled in the very first sentence now for nearly 24 hours.

CNN

@CNN

3 years

In a mountainous stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border, migrants and smugglers are using new military-style tactics — including wearing camouflage and boots made of carpet — to avoid capture.

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“We have learned lots from Gaza. It’s a great laboratory,” an Israeli Brigadier General to US Border Patrol agents, homeland security officials, and border industry representatives in El Paso several years ago.

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2 years

I think we found a solution!

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@ReichlinMelnick

2 years

It's kind of stunning how much the legal cannabis market has effectively wiped out cross-border marijuana smuggling in barely a decade. In fiscal year 2013, Customs and Border Protection seized 2,900,118 pounds of cannabis. This year, it's on track to seize under 225,000 pounds.

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5 years

In the desert, during the climate crisis, “security” means replenishing water, not sucking it all away —especially for a symbol of depraved xenophobia.

Laiken Jordahl

@LaikenJordahl

5 years

Multiple sources: @DHSgov intends to drill wells every few miles along the AZ border, sucking up precious desert groundwater to mix concrete for #BorderWall . This includes wildlife refuges & natl. parks. Outrageous, yes, but recall they have waived every relevant enviro law.

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4 years

This also applies to the Border Patrol

Jason Hickel

@jasonhickel

4 years

What's extraordinary about capitalism is that it produces apocalypse and then tries to sell itself as the only reasonable solution to apocalypse.

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1/ Yesterday was publication day for Build Bridges, Not Walls.Always a nerve-wracking affair, but especially for a book that will question borders and insist it is time to imagine something radically different. Check out the video.Or follow this thread:

City Lights Books

@CityLightsBooks

4 years

For the publication day of his new book, 'Build Bridges Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders,' Todd Miller ( @memomiller ) filmed this video at the border in San Diego. #PubDay Watch till the end, Todd's son William offers a radical vision of what the border could be.

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I'm happy to announce a new book is on its way this Spring: Perhaps a world of bounded nation-states does not and cannot offer any solution to today's global crises. Perhaps, instead, it is a fundamental part of the problem to begin with. @CityLights

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5 years

Empire of Borders is out! In celebration, I wrote a blog connecting the border prison camps to the broader global border system :)

Verso Books

@VersoBooks

5 years

"The prison camps are not just an anomaly from a nativist Trump administration, they are something that has been happening for years and years." Award-winning journalist @memomiller 's new book, Empire of Borders, is 40% off through Sunday.

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ACLU to CBP: Stop Trashing Asylum Seekers’ Possessions. In one case agents forced a Nicaraguan man to throw away the ashes of his deceased father. See the latest from @MelissaLaLinea at The Border Chronicle 🦂⚡️

ACLU to CBP: Stop Trashing Asylum Seekers’ Possessions

“It strips people of their humanity,” says the ACLU.

www.theborderchronicle.com

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@memomiller

4 years

Big report dropping today on Biden and the border industrial complex:

Transnational Institute

@TNInstitute

4 years

In 2020, Joe Biden received three times more donations than Donald Trump from the border security industry. 🚧 What does this mean for future US immigration policies? Read our latest research with @ConMijente & @afsc_org ⬇️

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The level of cruelty has reached new heights with the current government and deserves every second of attention you’re giving it, but the forced separation of parents and children is not unprecedented as this report details.

Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare...

Deportations and detentions of undocumented immigrants are destroying families, according to a ground breaking report by the Applied Research Center (ARC). The report documents, for the first time,...

www.atlanticphilanthropies.org

Chris Hayes

@chrislhayes

6 years

@NickAPappas @GPollowitz I’ve talked to lots of immigration lawyers and advocates and they say what the guests on my show say: this, meaning separation of parents and children is unprecedented.

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Saguaro telling border wall to fck right off.

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"In other words, like Colombia, Guatemala, Honduras, and southern Mexico, Panama’s Darién Gap has become a part of the U.S. border. Entire countries have become the U.S. Border Patrol’s newest hires, and the Biden administration seems to be banking on this investment."

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@memomiller

1 year

Washington has intervened in Latin America several times since the Monroe Doctrine 200 years ago. The U.S. externalizing its border across the Western Hemisphere is this intervention's newest evolution. New at The Border Chronicle 🦂⚡️:

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5 years

Border wall construction is going to drain these sacred springs.

Laiken Jordahl

@LaikenJordahl

5 years

Highlight of my week: meeting this endangered Sonoyta mud turtle at Quitobaquito Springs. Quitobaquito is the turtle’s only home in the country, the very existence of which is threatened by imminent border wall construction.

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4 years

The Border Patrol is everywhere.

CBP Mark Morgan

@CBPMarkMorgan

4 years

CBP is currently deploying officers, agents and aviation assets across the country at the request of our federal, state and local partners confronting the lawless actions of rioters. @CBP carries out its mission nationwide, not just at the border, consistent with federal laws.

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What is the state of border surveillance and what's in store for 2024? Check out this insightful narrative photo essay by @softsubversions and Colter Thomas, based on the comprehensive work of @EFF and @maassive . New at The Border Chronicle 🦂⚡️

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3 years

It works to tie ICE to Manifest Destiny.

ICE

@ICEgov

3 years

While many may think ICE is a relatively young agency, tying its origins to the events of 9/11, its history traces back to when the nation's founding fathers were establishing the blueprint for the newly created United States of America.

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Maybe my favorite quote ever.

nathaniel hoffman

@paleomedia

3 years

Pretty great Subcomandante Marcos quote in @memomiller "Storming the Wall" book:

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The question remains, what is the border? Is it an arbritrary line imposed after a violent, bloody takeover of indigenous land and more than 50 percent of Mexico? Or is it the place where the status quo meets its dissidents? Or both?

TL-Molina

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What is this? They are kidnapping people.

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Not a Border Crisis: @HarshaWalia on Why It’s Time for a New Political Project. Renowned author and scholar explains that it "is not a crisis of the border but one that is due to the border."NEW from The Border Chronicle.

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That military base would be Ft. Benning home to the infamous School of the Americas (also known as the School of Assassins or, if you are so inclined, WHINSEC).

Ryan Devereaux

@rdevro

4 years

NEW: ICE is looking to spend up $18 million on thousands of new “conductive energy weapons” (tasers) and annual courses at a U.S. military base — named after a confederate general — that was once a training ground for Latin American death squads

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The world's biggest polluters are constructing unprecedented border regimes. These governments are seeing climate migrants not as people but "security threats" to be subordinated using walls, bullets, drones and cages-built by private contractors.

Why climate action needs to target the border industrial complex

Climate change is displacing a growing number of people; governments are responding by privatising border policing.

www.aljazeera.com

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6 years

And that someone who comes—if they come—will arrest, incarcerate, and forcibly expel you from the country.

No More Deaths | No Más Muertes

@NoMoreDeaths

6 years

Prosecutor Anna Wright repeatedly brought up #BorderPatrol 's "Rescue Beacons" (so called) today as an alternative to water caches. Rescue Beacons have no water. Only a button to push, wait, hope someone comes in a few hours (days?). There is no comparison. #waternotwalls

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"This is not a “new normal.” There is no more normal."

Eric Holthaus

@EricHolthaus

7 years

Harvey and Irma aren’t natural disasters. They’re climate disasters. Talking about that is important, right now.

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This report that I helped author has now dropped!

Transnational Institute

@TNInstitute

5 years

TNI’s new report with @NoMoreDeaths investigates the arms firms (and IT and security corporations) that have profited from making the US-Mexico border one of the most militarized and deadly borders

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3 years

Proud to announce that this report that I co-authored has launched:

Transnational Institute

@TNInstitute

3 years

Can you stop #ClimateChange with guns? 🌎🔥 The world’s biggest polluters seem to think so - spending more on arming borders than on climate finance. 👇Watch @billmckibben share why #ClimateJustice must be prioritized at #COP26 . Read more:

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4 years

Given that DHS has teargassed people at the border (26 times in 2012, for example), electrocuted people at the border (the tasering of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, for one), and shot people at the border (too many to name), I guess yes that would be who "we" are.

Miles Taylor

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4 years

Reminder to those who haven’t yet voted: Trump wanted us to explore gassing, electrifying, and shooting migrants at the border. Is that who we are? Vote him out.

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If a person was concerned about "open borders," the fact that the U.S. wreaks havoc in so many countries around the world--via corporate extraction, military power, disproportionate greenhouse gas emissions etc.--might be a good place to start.

BreakThrough News

@BTnewsroom

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Biden’s ban on asylum is more heinous "when you start seeing the US’s responsibility for the reasons why people migrated in the first place” @memomiller discusses Biden’s move to shut down the US-Mexico border:

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The case to abolish the Border Patrol:

SOAWatch

@SOAWatch

4 years

Check out our article with @ashahshahani about state violence in the Borderlands, the white supremacist roots of Border Patrol, and why we must #AbolishCBP #DismantleWhiteSupremacy #USMurderPatrol

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My prediction is by the time people arrive to US militarized borders, the media will long have forgotten these back to back mega hurricanes. And no connection will be made to the US polluting the atmosphere 700 times more than Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador combined.

Eric Holthaus

@EricHolthaus

4 years

Climate change made Hurricane Iota worse. ✅ Warmer ocean water ✅ Higher atmospheric humidity ✅ Sea level rise Rapid intensification & a longer hurricane season means more repeat trauma for folks in Central America on the front lines of climate change.

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From exactly six years ago, writing Storming the Wall with this little one (who was also my inspiration) on my lap. This is a memory I will always cherish.

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"The border is designed to be in a perpetual crisis, but we can stop this by shifting to something new. Abolition is not about destruction, but about restoring who we can be. It’s time to build bridges, not walls."

Guardian US

@GuardianUS

3 years

A lucrative border-industrial complex keeps the US border in constant ‘crisis’ | Todd Miller

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“We can choose to walk through it, dragging the carcasses of our prejudice and hatred,our avarice,our data banks and dead ideas, our dead rivers and smoky skies behind us. Or we can walk through lightly,with little luggage,ready to imagine another world.And ready to fight for it”

John Cusack

@johncusack

5 years

As usual Roy says it better than anyone else could - capitalism is the crisis Arundhati Roy: ‘The pandemic is a portal’

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Sonoran desert at dusk.

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Nogales Orders Federal Officials To Remove Hideous, 'Inhuman' Razor Wire On Border

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New from The Border Chronicle 🦂: read about how patrolling robo dogs, unveiled by DHS earlier this month, give a glimpse into a future, aggressive techno border fueled by a global industrial complex. It was an honor to coauthor this with @_PMolnar

Robo Dogs and Refugees: The Future of the Global Border Industrial Complex

The future is here, and it’s a nightmare for migrants. Robo-dogs are joining the global arsenal of border enforcement technologies. The consequences will be deadly.

www.theborderchronicle.com

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6 years

Another journalist killed in Mexico.

Bob Ortega

@Bob_Ortega

6 years

Mexican journalist gunned down at his home near Arizona-Mexico border via @azcentral

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The Rio Grande just outside of Presidio/Ojinaga as I start a new book project

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Of course, this Border Patrol special forces unit (BORTAC) has also been to Iraq where it "trained the Iraqi border police and its tactical team from 2006 to 2011, serving as advisors and working alongside Iraqi border patrol in the field."

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick

@ReichlinMelnick

4 years

Calling Border Patrol officers "men and women in uniform" as if they're troops fighting in Iraq, when in reality they won't identify themselves when they're grabbing people off the street in Portland out of their rented vans. DHS is out of control and Chad thinks he's Patton.

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An excerpt from my forthcoming book that follows the expansion of the US border through the Americas, the Caribbean, the Middle East, South East Asia, East Africa, and more. One thing I learned? The US border is much bigger than I ever imagined.

NACLA Report

@NACLA

5 years

The reach of the US #border apparatus, and the violence it inflicts, extends far beyond the Rio Grande. Read @memomiller 's analysis of the US war on migrants in an excerpt from his new book Empire of Borders, out July 23 from @VersoBooks

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@SethOnHoops @ArizonaMBB Petty condescension is real I’ve learned this morning.

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Border Patrol=“National security” police

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Reporter’s Notebook: The Border Creates Tragedy by Design. New from The Border Chronicle🦂 The dread and promise of the border: a photo essay from Nogales, Sonora, that is also a meditation on the the tragedy in San Antonio.

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.

www.theborderchronicle.com

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Every May for two decades we have known that hundreds (or more?) of otherwise healthy people would be dead by summer's end. The same federal border policy ensures that this will happen year after year, with hardly a peep from the national media. Thanks for writing this, Ryan.

Ryan Devereaux

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2 years

NEW: After decades of disappearances, thousands of lives lost, and a new law requiring greater accountability, the U.S. Border Patrol continues to fail at counting migrant deaths along the southern border. My latest.

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Includes deployment of rapid-detection surveillance technology and possible tent city detention zones.

Ken Klippenstein

@kenklippenstein

5 years

I obtained Customs and Border Protection’s pandemic response plan, which describes the extraordinary powers immigration authorities have during pandemics. CBP can now detain/surveil people for flu-like symptoms and coordinate with "intelligence partners":

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The father of Operation Gatekeeper weighs in:

Bill Clinton

@BillClinton

6 years

On this Father’s Day I’m thinking of the thousands of children separated from their parents at the border. These children should not be a negotiating tool. And reuniting them with their families would reaffirm America’s belief in & support for all parents who love their children.

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Washington's climate adaptation plan for the growing number of displaced people around the globe is more walls, surveillance technology, and armed agents on the border. Please check out my latest for The Border Chronicle.

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Went to consult the wise ones about all of this

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This surveillance “will build on secretive tests conducted in Arizona and Texas during which authorities collected a “massive amount of data”, including images captured “as people were leaving work, picking up children from school, and carrying out other daily routines”

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@memomiller

6 years

The US government is deploying a new facial recognition system at the southern border that would record images of people inside vehicles entering and leaving the country.

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On the cusp of COP27, It is time to build solidarity with the increasing millions displaced by climate, not more deadly walls. New at The Border Chronicle 🦂 I cowrote with @TowerAmali from @Climate_Refugee who just returned from Somalia and Kenya.

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@memomiller

3 years

Saguaro bloom

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@memomiller

3 years

The Climate Border Industrial Complex. How the border industry benefits from climate change and protects the polluters. NEW from The Border Chronicle:

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5 years

I’m not sure how one would fix a “broken” border patrol system? Even if every agent were super nice and polite, they would still be tasked with enforcing a segregationist system of exclusion that has been tearing families apart for decades.

Joaquin Castro

@JoaquinCastrotx

5 years

Our border patrol system is broken. And part of the reason it stays broken is because it’s kept secret. The American people must see what is being carried out in their name. The @HispanicCaucus led a delegation of members of Congress to visit 2 border patrol facilities.

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@memomiller

7 years

You could apologize for all depicted in this book by @WilliamBllum too: Killing Hope:U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II

CNN

@CNN

7 years

"Full Frontal" host Samantha Bee has announced an "Apology Race" in which her team "will travel the globe to apologize for every garbage thing Donald Trump does"

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@memomiller

3 years

Climate border industrial complex:

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@memomiller

3 years

@rdevro They spelled Tucson wrong in the very first sentence

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@memomiller

6 years

Left alone, Mother Earth will devour all border barriers like this one on the US Mexico divide.

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Todd Miller

@memomiller

4 years

The warning signs for this have been here now for years. Check out this excerpt from the 2014 book Border Patrol Nation, depicting Border Patrol working the Super Bowl (in Miami) and pulling people off of nearby Amtrak trains and Greyhound busses.

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@memomiller

3 years

Build Bikes, Not Walls: A Reflection on Open Borders. It's time to shake up the narrative! NEW from The Border Chronicle

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Todd Miller

@memomiller

5 years

Well the book launch for Empire of Borders went well, except for the guy who showed up with the confederate flag tattoo on his arm and the knife (sheathed) in his hand who kept trying to and saying things, including quoting scripture, during the q&a/discussion period.

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@memomiller

3 years

Today’s inaugural post of The Border Chronicle is a deep dive examination of 9/11’s legacy on the border—a topic, we fear, won't get the coverage it deserves. (thread)

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@memomiller

1 year

Washington has intervened in Latin America several times since the Monroe Doctrine 200 years ago. The U.S. externalizing its border across the Western Hemisphere is this intervention's newest evolution. New at The Border Chronicle 🦂⚡️:

A Return on Our Investment: Border Externalization in “America’s Backyard” under the Biden Admini...

Washington has intervened in Latin America several times since the Monroe Doctrine 200 years ago. U.S. border militarization across the Western Hemisphere is this intervention's newest evolution.

www.theborderchronicle.com

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Todd Miller

@memomiller

3 years

The U.S. border enforcement has long gone right up to Haiti's shores. Please check out my latest for The Border Chronicle.

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Todd Miller

@memomiller

4 years

The only thing about this tweet that I wouldn’t agree with is that the agents are “rogue.” They aren’t rogue. They are an intrinsic part of the system.

ACLU

@ACLU

4 years

Congress, we warned you when DHS showed up at the border. We warned you when you funded the agency's rapid growth. We warned you when they said only federal buildings. Congress, we're warning you again now. Take action before these rogue agents are everywhere.

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@memomiller

5 years

Three million deportations.

Joe Biden

@JoeBiden

5 years

Two elections. Zero criminal convictions.

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Todd Miller

@memomiller

4 years

The U.S. election is certainly not the only thing going on today: This is going to be devastating for Honduras and Nicaragua.

Eric Holthaus

@EricHolthaus

4 years

Raw satellite estimates of Hurricane Eta now show it could be among the strongest hurricanes in Atlantic basin history, dating back to 1851. Eta is an 8.3(!) on an 8.0 scale, meeting or exceeding the theoretical maximum strength for a Caribbean hurricane this time of year.

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@memomiller

3 years

If you are thinking about open borders I would recommend you start with corporate power that can go wherever it wants, take whatever it wants, pollute and plunder communities, while enjoying protection by militaries (often the U.S. military that also has open borders) and police.

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@memomiller

5 years

Most difficult to choose just five books, because there were many more. But these works were very important, if not foundational, to Empire of Borders.

Verso Books

@VersoBooks

5 years

Todd Miller @memomiller , author of Empire of Borders, selects five essential books about border imperialism, the surveillance state, and the politics of national security. Empire of Borders is 50% off as part of our Back to School sale.

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Todd Miller

@memomiller

1 year

Time to acknowledge that global apartheid exists

Maurice Stierl

@MauriceStierl

1 year

"In Europe, we take photos of migrants before they die." @connellyandrew

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@memomiller

3 years

I talked with @Oswaldo__Zavala , author of Drug Cartels Do Not Exist, for The Border Chronicle. He challenges the cartel narrative anchored in a "national security storytelling machine," and opens up a whole new way to think about the drug war.

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Todd Miller

@memomiller

2 years

Spy Blimps in the Sky: The Increasing Surveillance of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Nogales mayor asked: “Would you want to have a blimp above your house?” New at The Border Chronicle🦂🔥, a deep look at technology and surveillance featuring @EFF

Spy Blimps in the Sky: The Increasing Surveillance of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

A deep look with the Electronic Frontier Foundation at the fortification of surveillance on the border. As Nogales mayor Arturo Garino asked: “Would you want to have a blimp above your house?”

www.theborderchronicle.com

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Todd Miller

@memomiller

3 years

The Border Chronicle is at the Border Security Expo:

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@memomiller

3 years

By design:

Melissa del Bosque

@MelissaLaLinea

3 years

Deaths At The Arizona-Mexico Border Are On Pace To Be Highest Ever Recorded

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@memomiller

2 years

Where Sports and Deportation Meet: ICE Is Removing People on the Same Planes Used to Transport Teams. New at The Border Chronicle🦂: What do the NE Patriots, Houston Rockets, private charter companies, and ICE Air Operations have in common? Find out here.

Where Sports and Deportation Meet: ICE Is Removing People on the Same Planes Used to Transport Teams

What do the New England Patriots, Houston Rockets, private charter companies, and ICE Air Operations have in common? Find out here.

www.theborderchronicle.com

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Todd Miller

@memomiller

2 years

After Years of Tribal Resistance, DHS Finishes its “Virtual Wall” on the Tohono O’odham Nation "You never know when you’re being watched,” said a resident. New at The Border Chronicle 🦂

After Years of Tribal Resistance, DHS Finishes its “Virtual Wall” on the Tohono O’odham Nation

An all-day quest led me to the final of the 10 towers built on native land. "You never know when you’re being watched,” said a resident.

www.theborderchronicle.com

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Todd Miller

@memomiller

2 years

Right now there is a massive expansion of surveillance infrastructure on the U.S. border that is under the radar. In the national discourse while there is a fallacious debate around open borders, the Joe Biden administration is operating the highest enforcement budget ever.

accuracy.org

@accuracy

2 years

"The Big Tech Surveillance Wall Being Built Under the Radar" @memomiller

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Todd Miller

@memomiller

4 years

And here is the global trend exemplified: Foreign multinationals can cross borders with ease and get their own police force for protection. While everyone else—especially working class&farmers—constantly have their mobility debilitated with fortified, violent borders.

MINING.COM

@mining

4 years

Mexico to launch new police force to protect mining operations

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Todd Miller

@memomiller

6 years

Words of AZ Rep Martha McSally: “It is most unfortunate that this group, organized by radical activists, broke into our office today to disrupt the workplace and prevent us from serving constituents in Arizona’s Second Congressional District...”

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