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Todd Miller writes a weekly post for The Border Chronicle. He has researched and written about border issues for more than 15 years, the last eight as an independent journalist and writer. His work has appeared in the New York Times, TomDispatch, The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, Guernica, and Al Jazeera English, among other places. Miller has authored four books: Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders (City Lights, 2021) Empire of Borders: The Expansio...

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The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? From the mountaintops of southern Arizona, you can see a world without borders. I realized this just before I met Juan Carlos. I was about 20 miles from the border but well within the militarized zone tha...

NationofChange Maintaining instability in a world of inequality. Image Credit: Alonso Castillo/Reuters From the mountaintops of southern Arizona, you can see a world without borders. I realized this just before I met Juan Carlos. I was about 20 miles from the border but well within the militarized zone that abuts it. I was, in fact, atop the Baboquivari mountain range, a place sacred to the Tohono O’odham, the Native American people who have inhabited this land for thousands ...

Imagine a World Without Borders Image by japatino/Getty Images Walls and fences at national borders enforce inequality, racial divides, and climate catastrophe. But most of them began as invisible lines in the sand. For decades, Todd Miller has reported on borders and the conflicts they create. In his new book, Build Bridges, Not Walls , Miller invites us to envision a borderless world, one better-equipped for our collective survival. In this excerpt, he describes the militarized U.S.-Mexico b...

A lucrative border-industrial complex keeps the US border in constant ‘crisis’ Todd Miller © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Wolfgang Schwan/REX/Shutterstock I’ll never forget Giovanni’s blistered feet as an EMT attended to him on the Mexico side of the US-Mexican border in Sasabe, a remote desert town. On the back of one foot, his skin had been rubbed away and the tender, reddish, underlying tissue exposed. One toenail had completely ripped off. Giovanni, who wa...

a 16-fold increase ‘Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign received three times more campaign contributions from the border industry than did Donald Trump’s.’ Photograph: Wolfgang Schwan/REX/Shutterstock ‘Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential campaign received three times more campaign contributions from the border industry than did Donald Trump’s.’ Photograph: Wolfgang Schwan/REX/Shutterstock Mon 19 Apr 2021 06.21 EDT Last modified on Mon 19 Apr 2021 06.22 EDT I...