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Todd Miller

Todd Miller has researched and written about U.S.-Mexican border issues for more than 10 years. He has worked on both sides of the border for BorderLinks in Tucson, Arizona, and Witness for Peace in Oaxaca, Mexico. He now writes on border and immigration issues for NACLA Report on the Americas and its blog “Border Wars,” among other places. He is at work on his first book, Border Patrol Nation, for the Open Media Series of City Lights Books.

 

Trapped in an Empire of Borders

The U.S. Border Is Much Bigger Than You Think (And Don’t Just Blame Donald Trump)

By Todd Miller On September 24, 2019On September 24, 2019

The Border Fetish

The U.S. Frontier as a Zone of Profit and Sacrifice

By Todd Miller On April 24, 2018On April 24, 2018

The Era of Walls

Greeting Climate-Change Victims With a Man-Made Dystopia

By Todd Miller On December 7, 2017On December 7, 2017

No Need to Build The Donald’s Wall, It’s Built

Trump’s America Already Exists on the Border

By Todd Miller On August 23, 2016On August 23, 2016

Border Wars in the Homeland 

“Stop Stepping on the Pictures” 

By Todd Miller On July 15, 2014On July 15, 2014

They Are Watching You

The National Security State and the U.S.-Mexican Border

By Todd Miller On April 22, 2014On April 22, 2014

Border Patrol International 

“The American Homeland Is the Planet” 

By Todd Miller On November 19, 2013On November 19, 2013

Creating a Military-Industrial-Immigration Complex 

How to Turn the U.S.-Mexican Border into a War Zone 

By Todd Miller On July 11, 2013On July 11, 2013

Living in a Constitution-Free Zone

Drones, Surveillance Towers, Malls of the Spy State, and the National Security Police

By Todd Miller On February 7, 2013On February 7, 2013

Bringing the Battlefield to the Border

By Todd Miller On June 7, 2012On June 8, 2012

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