No Need to Build Donald Trump’s Wall — Its Logic Is Already Being Practiced

By Todd Miller / TomDispatch Aug 24, 2016 A draconian Border Patrol program may not be Trump's promised structure, but it embodies the logic of his "wall": Either you crossed illegally or you didn’t. And it is just one of many tough U.S. programs developed in recent decades. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Gaza in Arizona

By Todd Miller and Gabriel M. Schivone, TomDispatch Jan 26, 2015 In October 2012, a brigadier general for the Israel Defense Forces explained his country’s border policing strategies at a border technology conference in El Paso, Texas. “We have learned lots from Gaza,” he told the audience. “It’s a great laboratory.” Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

‘Fed Up’ Promises to Change the Way You Eat

Staff / Truthdig May 9, 2014 This week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: A new movie from the producer of "An Inconvenient Truth" and Katie Couric takes on the American diet. Also: A look at the border industrial complex, and a broken promise to help Filipino immigrants send aid to victims of Typhoon Yolanda. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

They Are Watching You

By Todd Miller, TomDispatch Apr 24, 2014 It is here at the Border Security Expo 2014 that U.S. Homeland Security officials, local law enforcement, and border forces from all over the world talk contracts with private industry representatives, exhibit their techno-optimism, and begin to hammer out a future of ever more hardened, up-armored national and international boundaries. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Border Patrol International

By Todd Miller, TomDispatch Nov 21, 2013 On one side, a man in a uniform with a gun and the authority to detain, deport, or even kill; on the other, people with the most fundamental of unmet needs and without the proper documentation to cross an international boundary. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Creating a Military-Industrial-Immigration Complex

By Todd Miller, TomDispatch Jul 11, 2013 Calling the border security act the Senate passed on June 27 “immigration reform” is like calling the National Security Agency’s expanding global surveillance system a domestic telecommunications upgrade. It’s really all about the country that the United States is becoming -- one of the police and the policed. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )

Living in a Constitution-Free Zone

By Todd Miller, TomDispatch Feb 7, 2013 Unlike on our southern border, there is still no wall to our north on what was once dubbed the “longest undefended border in the world.” But don’t let that fool you. The U.S.-Canadian border is increasingly a national security hotspot watched over by drones, surveillance towers and agents of the Department of Homeland Security. Dig deeper ( 13 Min. Read )