interventions
The ICE Reformation Trap
Professionalization will not make immigration policing less violent. It will only increase its capacity, authority, and scope.
4 posts in ‘border patrol’
Professionalization will not make immigration policing less violent. It will only increase its capacity, authority, and scope.
Many women escaping violence in their home countries find themselves trapped in the formal violence of the asylum system.
So-called “smart” borders are just more sophisticated sites of racialized surveillance and violence. We need abolitionist tools to counter them.
Our nation’s turn toward punitiveness for people arriving at the Southwest border coincided with the modern era of mass incarceration.