Webinar: The Border Industrial Complex in the Time of Elections

As the US presidential election approaches, migration at the southern border becomes more and more of a lightning rod for demagoguery and a gold mine for the border industrial complex. False narratives and political theater gain headlines while the struggle of people seeking safety and a better life gets worse and yet largely goes unreported. This webinar will focus on the nuts and bolts of the border industrial complex, including contracts, budgets, and trends, and on the chaos being generated for power and profit in this time of electioneering mendacity. The presenter is a longtime journalists based in Tucson, Arizona who publish the Border Chronicle, a biweekly newsletter of original, on-the-ground reporting, analysis, and commentary.

Presenter:

Todd Miller has researched and written about border issues for more than two decades, the last 10 as an independent journalist and writer. He is a longtime resident of Tucson, Arizona, but also spent many years living and working in Oaxaca, Mexico, and grew up in the Buffalo/Niagara Falls region, staring across the U.S. border into Canada. His work has appeared in The New York Times, TomDispatch, The Nation, The San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, Guernica, and Al Jazeera English, among others. Todd has authored four books: Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World without Borders (City Lights, 2021); Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border around the World (Verso, 2019); Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security (City Lights, 2014); and Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration and Homeland Security (City Lights, 2017), which was awarded the 2018 Izzy Award for Excellence in Independent Journalism. He’s a contributing editor on border issues for NACLA Report on the Americas.