Border Wars

The wars on immigration, drugs, and "terror" all meet up in vivid detail in the U.S. Mexico borderlands, its cumulative force aimed at the migrants who continually cross into the United States without authorization in the context of vast structural disparities. This blog will chronicle this war on migrants, not only in the borderlands, but also the "virtual border" that follows them wherever they go in the United States, and increasingly extends beyond U.S. shores.