Todd Miller
The Nation
Tucson, AZ, United States
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Under Biden, the Border Wall Is More Powerful Than Ever
Officials continue to promote a border-wall system that’s increasingly profitable—and more than ever like something out of a science-fiction movie. → Read More
How Joe Biden is out-border-walling Donald Trump
Todd Miller, Without Trump, the Border Is Still a Profitable Battlefield → Read More
Walls and detention centres aren’t the answer to the climate refugee crisis
The World Bank’s warnings over climate migration are a call to action. Governments are responding to this message, but in a profoundly damaging way → Read More
Visions of a Borderless World
We must not forget that borders are an impediment to a new world based on empathy and equality. → Read More
A moment of hesitation and the absurdity of the border
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' → Read More
A World of Bikes, Not Walls?
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 → Read More
Why Did Border Security Firms Bet on Biden in 2020?
The 13 top border contractors for CBP and ICE donated three times as much money to the Biden campaign than they did to Trump. → Read More
The US Is Wrapping Its Border Wall Around the World
From Jordan to the Philippines, countries across the world are following America’s lead and militarizing their borders. → Read More
How Border Patrol Occupied the Tohono O’odham Nation
Under ever-expanding high-tech surveillance, the reservation has become “the most militarized community in America.” → Read More
The border fetish: The U.S. frontier as a zone of profit and sacrifice
Award-winning news and culture, features breaking news, in-depth reporting and criticism on politics, business, entertainment and technology. → Read More
Border Fetish
At first, I thought I had inadvertently entered an active war zone. I was on a lonely two-lane road in southern New Mexico heading for El Paso, Texas. Off to the side of the road, hardly concealed behind some desert shrubs, I suddenly noticed what seemed to be a tank.... → Read More
Over 7,000 Bodies Have Been Found at the US-Mexican Border Since the '90s
And that’s an underestimate. → Read More
The Global Crisis That's Creating 21.5 Million Refugees Each Year
How environmental destruction created a refugee crisis. When I first talked to the three Honduran men in the train yard in the southern Mexican town of Tenosique, I had no idea that they were climate-change refugees. We were 20 miles from the border with Guatemala at a rail yard where Central American refugees often congregated to try to board La Bestia (“the Beast”), the nickname given to the… → Read More
Greeting Climate-Change Victims With A Man-Made Dystopia – Countercurrents
When I first talked to the three Honduran men in the train yard in the southern Mexican town of Tenosique, I had no idea that they were climate-change refugees. We were 20 miles from the border w… → Read More
The Era of Walls
This article originally appeared on TomDispatch. It is reprinted here with permission. When I first talked to the three Honduran men in the train yard in the southern Mexican town of Tenosique, I had no idea that they were climate-change refugees. We were 20 miles from the border with Guatemala at a rail yard where Central American refugees often congregated to try to board La Bestia (“the… → Read More
The Era of Walls
When I first talked to the three Honduran men in the train yard in the southern Mexican town of Tenosique, I had no idea that they were climate-change refugees. We were 20 miles from the border with Guatemala at a rail yard where Central American refugees often congregated to try... → Read More
The Era Of Walls
Greeting climate-change victims with a man-made dystopia. → Read More
The United States Is Polluting the World and Locking Refugees Out
Border walls are being erected left and right as natural disasters become more frequent, leaving victims with nowhere to go. → Read More
The West’s Best Fighter Jets, Together in Virginia
The Atlantic Trident ’17 exercise, held from April 12 to 28, 2017 at Joint Base Langley-Eustice in Virginia, included a “Blue Air” force of U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors of the 1st Fighter Wing and F-35 Lightning IIs from Eglin Air Force Base, Typhoons of the Royal Air Force and... → Read More
Trump's America Already Exists On The Border
At the federal courthouse, Ignacio Sarabia asks the magistrate judge, Jacqueline Rateau, if he can explain why he crossed the international boundary between the two countries without authorization. He has already pleaded guilty to the federal misdemeanor commonly known as “illegal entry” and is about to receive a prison sentence. On either side of him are eight men in the same predicament, all… → Read More