#border militarization

[leftpress]

Defend DREAMers and All Immigrants

Joshua Koritz | Socialist Alternative | November 16th 2017 Attacking immigrants was a central part of Trump’s election campaign and has been a hallmark of his administration. In the wake of his inauguration, hundreds of thousands of people got active in fights for sanctuary cities and schools, and the Muslim Ban was met with mass opposition and protest. Now, Trump’s threat to rescind DACA […]

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[raniakhalek]

Europe’s border policy is designed to push refugees into the sea

Europe’s border policy is designed to push refugees into the sea

Originally published at The Electronic Intifada

Shortly before a huge migrant boat disaster early this month, The Sun, a daily paper owned by Rupert Murdoch, published a column by British TV star and rightwing provocateur Katie Hopkins calling migrants “cockroaches” and “a plague of feral humans.”

Not long after it went to press, as many as 850 refugees drowned in the Mediterranean when their…

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[afsc-org]

Join us on Tuesday, February 10, as we break down the federal budget and talk alternatives to militarism. afsc.org/hangout

[afsc-org]

Who profits from U.S.-Mexico border militarization? And who pays?

Companies who profit from border militarization spent $74,000 per day on lobbying activities during key legislation times. More at bit.ly/BorderProfit 

[conjuncturemagazine]

(By Daniel Gutiérez)

Twenty years ago, the United States enacted two programs nearly simultaneously that completely changed the every day life of many individuals: NAFTA and Operation Gatekeeper. The former lead to massive migration patterns that economically coerced people to move north and the latter was a large step in the militarization of the US-Mexico border. Current immigration debates are limited in scope, as they attempt to solve “the immigration problem” by merely allowing people in and completely ignoring the root reasons of migration.

[thisheckingblog-blog]

ok so this is my final research paper. It's kinda shitty and needs a lot more work, but eh. 

it's a pdf btw. 

[afsc-org]

Animated drawing of U.S.-Mexico border militarization all done on a whiteboard by folks in our Chicago office.

[decolonizechris]

An Imperial Surveillance Regime: National Borders, Drones, and Gendered Violence

What does it mean to have “weaponized” Predator drones used within state borders?

In the past few…

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