From Colleen Heild: An Uzbekistan national is at the center of an expanding legal battle over whether migrants illegally entering from Mexico can also be convicted of trespassing on New Mexico’s new military border zone.
https://www.abqjournal.com/news/article_b5a343b2-8b6e-4cfb-b05f-afa25190e886.html
In his first 100 days, President Trump has declared more national emergencies — more creatively and more aggressively — than any president in modern American history
#Trump #EmergencyState #ExecutiveOverreach #TariffTactics #BorderMilitarization #LegalControversy #Axios
Trump redefines "emergency" to...
"Even before the border was built [..] there were #BorderVigilantes. [..] Monica Muñoz Martinez describes the early-twentieth-century reign of terror carried out by the Texas Rangers [..] Kelly Lytle Hernández argues that during that period, white citizens and law enforcement viewed the violent control of the border as their shared prerogative."
"Death in Nogales"
https://archive.ph/aBFBi
#USpol #USpolitics #vigilantism #BorderMilitarization #migrants #AntiMigrantRacism #RacializedCommunities
In response to #Abbott’s attempts to usurp federal authority in order to brutalize immigrants, #Biden looks to expand federal authority to brutalize immigrants https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/01/26/statement-from-president-joe-biden-on-the-bipartisan-senate-border-security-negotiations/ #border #usa #texas #mexico #bordermilitarization #liberalism #fascism #amerikkka
Trump creates border chaos to help Putin invade Ukraine: AI analysis of Mitt Romney's video in English, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Filipino.
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/01/26/trump-creates-border-chaos-to-help-putin-invade-ukraine-ai-analysis/
#bordermilitarization #putin #mexico
“After meeting with President Nana Akufo-Addo in Accra, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said 105 armoured vehicles delivered to Ghana were part of aid that would later include aerial surveillance equipment and electronic warfare systems.” https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231028-ghana-gets-more-eu-aid-for-border-security #neocolonialism #border #borders #ghana #fortresseurope #surveillance #bordermilitarization
“The feds were lurking around alleys and streets, snatching people of all ages.” https://truthout.org/articles/el-paso-residents-say-border-crisis-is-manufactured-reject-militarization/ #border #borders #bordermilitarization #fascism #urban #FortressUSA
Border militarization “perpetuates the idea that immigrants are a threat, that they’re dangerous, that they’re something to be feared,” Mendoza says. “It perpetuates racist stereotypes, not only of immigrants but of people of Latin American descent.” https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2023-09-20/texas-mexico-border-eagle-pass-immigration-detterence #border #borders #BorderMilitarization #fascism #migration #immigration #racism #fascism
Texas National Guard soldier shoots and wounds man who was exercising on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande https://www.texastribune.org/2023/08/28/texas-national-guard-shoots-mexican-citizen-border/ #borders #border #usa #texas #mexico #usa #BorderMilitarization
“To today’s drug trafficking organizations, the CBP is simply an operational expense within a highly diffused, sophisticated, and lucrative market.” https://48hills.org/2023/07/among-the-drug-traffickers-you-dont-hear-about-the-united-states-border-patrol/ #warondrugs #drugwar #smuggling #drugs #abolishcbp #fentanyl #capitalism #thestate #drugtrafficking #cartel #border #borders #cbp #corruption #organizedcrime #borderpatrol #police #bordermilitarization
EU continues to deliver equipment to Libyan Coast Guard for “#border control and #surveillance.” The coast guard is itself involved in or connected to the smuggling but also push-backs, drownings, shooting at rescue ships, and #slavery. https://www.euractiv.com/section/migration/news/eu-delivers-new-patrol-boats-to-libya-despite-militia-links/ #borders #fortresseurope #bordermilitarization #bordersurveillance #eu #libya @immigration
After dystopian Border Security Expo https://www.theborderchronicle.com/p/the-real-border-surge-the-end-of, DHS fearmongers about China, calls for more drone tech in US-Mexico borderlands https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/drones-force-multiplier-drug-smugglers-dhs-secretary-warns/story?id=100106881 (to fill contractor pockets and endanger undocumented border crossers) @immigration #border #borders #BorderMilitarization #biden #capitalism
Tohono O’odham leader and thinker Amy Juan describes the May 18 killing of Raymond Mattia by U.S. Border Patrol and the long context of #BorderMilitarization that led to it https://www.theborderchronicle.com/p/the-longer-story-of-the-border-patrol #border #borders #indigenous #RaymondMattia #USMexicoBorder #policebrutality
#GOP governors send National Guard forces, State Troopers to Texas-Mexico #border while the border is already militarized with walls, #surveillance , Border Patrol and thousands of troops deployed by #Biden https://truthout.org/articles/gop-governors-send-national-guard-forces-state-troopers-to-texas-mexico-border/ #BorderMilitarization #bipartisanship #fascism
#Drones , #AI , #biometrics , and the #border bonanza as the #Biden Administration becomes the largest border contractor in U.S. history https://www.theborderchronicle.com/p/the-real-border-surge-the-end-of @immigration #capitalism #borders #USA #BorderMilitarization #surveillance
“These #borders, of course, are policed 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year by massive military coercion. Thus the imperialist states are centrally involved in creating the conditions for a huge extension of super-exploitation in so-called developing countries.”
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/imperialism-is-inscribed-in-the-very-dna-of-capitalism #BorderMilitarization #UnevenDevelopment #imperialism
In addition to the U.S., “Parsons has also received contracts to help build #border systems, with U.S. funding, in other countries such as #Jordan, #Armenia, #Lebanon, and #Georgia “ https://www.theborderchronicle.com/p/reporters-notebook-a-photo-essay Before #BorderMilitarization, Parsons profited from the #ColdWar and the U.S. invasion and reconstruction of #Iraq. #USMexicoBorder #FortressEurope #neocolonialism #geopolitics #MiddleEast
Former DHS advisor (Obama administration) chosen to head IOM https://www.reuters.com/world/us-vs-europe-tense-contest-run-un-migration-agency-opens-2023-05-14/ @immigration #FortressEurope #USMexicoBorder #migration #BorderMilitarization
When #Title42 phases out on May 11, expect the further export of U.S. “prevention through deterrence” into Latin America and the Caribbean https://www.theborderchronicle.com/p/out-of-sight-out-of-mind-title @immigration #border #biden #trump #migration #BorderMilitarization #Panama #Colombia #USA #neocolonialism #DarienGap
