Border Patrol Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/border-patrol/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:18:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Border Patrol Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/border-patrol/ 32 32 The Border Patrol and Asylum Exclusion https://www.publicbooks.org/the-border-patrol-and-asylum-exclusion/ Thu, 30 May 2024 15:00:09 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56319 Border Patrol has regularly abused its authority and mistreated immigrants and asylum seekers in countless ways. Yet its role as the frontline force in asylum exclusion has only grown.

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]]> America’s Medicalized Borders: Past, Present, and Possible Future https://www.publicbooks.org/americas-medicalized-borders-past-present-and-possible-future/ Wed, 29 May 2024 15:00:07 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56170 “Only by building new models of collective health that are driven by solidarity, rather than fear, do we stand a chance of defeating today’s medical nativists.”

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]]> The 100-Year-Old Racist Law that Broke America’s Immigration System https://www.publicbooks.org/the-100-year-old-racist-law-that-broke-americas-immigration-system/ Tue, 28 May 2024 15:00:02 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56436 The Chinese and Asiatic exclusion laws of the 19th and early 20th century paved the way for the Immigration Act of 1924.

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]]> The Border Is the Crisis: Reflections on the Centenary of the Immigration Act of 1924 https://www.publicbooks.org/the-border-is-the-crisis-reflections-on-the-centenary-of-the-immigration-act-of-1924/ Mon, 27 May 2024 15:00:48 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56365 One hundred years have passed since the passage of the Johnson-Reed Act and the creation of the Border Patrol. But the undercurrents that mobilized both never went away and are resurging with renewed fervor.

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]]> Whose Homeland? Whose Security? https://www.publicbooks.org/whose-homeland-whose-security/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 15:00:17 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53241 American overseas imperialism functions most powerfully through its infrastructures—debt, education, bureaucracy, mobility—filtered through DHS.

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]]> Borders Don’t Stop Violence—They Create It https://www.publicbooks.org/borders-dont-stop-violence-they-create-it/ Wed, 07 Jul 2021 15:00:38 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=44052 The “border” is not a line on the ground, but a tool to enable violence and surveillance.

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]]> From “Crisis” to Futurity https://www.publicbooks.org/from-crisis-to-futurity-migration-and-borderlands-in-the-21st-century/ Mon, 05 Jul 2021 15:00:30 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=44213 Introducing a new series to push forward our thinking and action about immigration and borders.

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]]> Francisco Cantú Talks Borders, Rhetoric, and Climate Change https://www.publicbooks.org/francisco-cantu-talks-borders-rhetoric-and-climate-change/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 02:00:11 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=26497 Twenty pages into my first reading of The Line Becomes a River, I laid the book ...

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