Welcome back, everyone. I hope you have had a restful summer and that you’re returning to reality recharged and ready to resist!
To help get you motivated…
Dora Rodriguez and I are thrilled to share with you our August 3, 2025, conversation for the HOPE KNOWS NO BORDERS BOOK CLUB & WEBINAR SERIES:
It’s our 30,000-foot deep dive into the global leviathan that is the Border Industrial Complex with Petra Molnar and Todd Miller.
When it comes to the politics of deterrence, detention, and deportation, we can sometimes overlook that managing the movement of people around the globe is Big Business. Businesses funded by governments, and therefore paid for by us, are making Big Bucks at the intersection of migration and so-called “security.” They are developing the smart walls, surveillance systems, gulags, Gestapo forces, weaponized robotic dogs, and drones hiding in plain sight all around us, becoming more and more normalized, and impacting all our lives and all our rights — though some with more cruelty toward some than others.
Dora and my guests for Global Apartheid & the New Jim Code are two of the most incisive analysts of the industry that tracks and transports people as if they were packages, right down to each of our government-issued bar codes, facial biometrics, and pupil scans. We call it the Border Industrial Complex. And it is everywhere, giving truth to what journalist and author, Jean Guerrero, writes in her Aug. 29, 2025, New York Times Op-Ed: the border is indeed invading us.
Pop in the earbuds and pull up a chair. You won’t want to miss this critically important and informative conversation with Petra and Todd.
Remember, the only way through this … together,Sarah
Resources Referenced:
Articles
Guerrero, Jean. “The Border Is Invading America.” New York Times Opinion, August 29, 2025.
Lewis, Talila A. “Trump’s Rule Attacking Disabled and Low-Income Migrants Has Violent History: The rule uses the same criteria against migrants that were used to keep Black people enslaved.” Truthout, August 27, 2019.
Books
Miller, Todd. Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security. City Lights Publishers, March 2014.
Miller, Todd. Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security. City Lights Books, Aug 2017.
Miller, Todd. Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the US Border around the World, Verso Books. Aug 2019.
Miller, Todd. Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders. City Lights Books, April 2021.
Molnar, Petra. The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. The New Press, May 2024.
Nevins, Joseph. Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond: The War On "Illegals" and the Remaking of the U.S.–Mexico Boundary. Routledge, February 2010.
Towle, Sarah. Crossing the Line: Finding America in the Borderlands. She Writes Press, June 2024.
Rodriguez, Dora. Dora: A Daughter of Unforgiving Terrain. Resiliencia Publishing, July 2025.
Projects & Initiatives (and who mentioned them)
Blue Triangle Solidarity (Rosey)
The Border Chronicle (Todd)
Border Community Alliance (Steve)
Dora’s Salvavision (Father Ray)
Hope Knows No Borders Book Club & Webinar Series (Sarah & Dora)
Migration & Technology Monitor (Petra)
Sarah’s Immigration Study Circles:
Find a developing list of resistance strategies here:
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