Todd Miller

Todd Miller currently writes on border and immigration issues for NACLA Report on the Americas. He has researched and written about US-Mexican border issues for over a decade and has worked for BorderLinks in Tucson, Arizona, and Witness for Peace in Oaxaca, Mexico. His first book, Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security, was published by City Lights Publishers in 2014.

Immigration Policy August 23, 2016

There’s a Bigger Problem at the Border Than Trump’s Proposed Wall

We live in fear of Trump’s plan for the Mexican border—not realizing that much of it already exists.

Todd Miller
Immigration Policy January 26, 2015

Why Is an Israeli Defense Contractor Building a ‘Virtual Wall’ in the Arizona Desert?

Israeli companies are using the lessons they’ve learned occupying Gaza to militarize the US border.

Todd Miller and Gabriel Matthew Schivone
Immigration Policy July 15, 2014

66 Percent of Americans Now Live in a Constitution-Free Zone

Thanks to the militarization and expansion of the “border” region, 197 million Americans now live within the jurisdiction of US Customs and Border Patrol.

Todd Miller
Drug War and Drug Policy April 23, 2014

Tracking a Marked Population in the US Borderlands

Along the US-Mexico border, the high-powered cameras are pointed at you and the drones are above you.

Todd Miller
Foreign Policy November 19, 2013

Wait—What are US Border Patrol Agents Doing in the Dominican Republic?

For the US, “homeland security” is hardly limited to the homeland.

Todd Miller
The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Sign up
Immigration Policy July 11, 2013

Creating a Military-Industrial-Immigration Complex

Here's how to turn the US-Mexican border into a war zone.

Todd Miller
World February 7, 2013

The US-Canada Border’s Constitution-Free Zone

Drones, surveillance towers, malls of the spy state and the national security police on the northern border.

Todd Miller
Immigration Policy June 7, 2012

Fortress USA

The wild world of border security and boundary building in Arizona.

Todd Miller

Log In

Todd Miller

Immigration Policy August 23, 2016

We live in fear of Trump’s plan for the Mexican border—not realizing that much of it already exists.

Immigration Policy January 26, 2015

Israeli companies are using the lessons they’ve learned occupying Gaza to militarize the US border.

Immigration Policy July 15, 2014

Thanks to the militarization and expansion of the “border” region, 197 million Americans now live within the jurisdiction of US Customs and Border Patrol.

Drug War and Drug Policy April 23, 2014

Along the US-Mexico border, the high-powered cameras are pointed at you and the drones are above you.

Foreign Policy November 19, 2013

For the US, “homeland security” is hardly limited to the homeland.

The stakes are higher now than ever. Get The Nation in your inbox.

Immigration Policy July 11, 2013

Here's how to turn the US-Mexican border into a war zone.

World February 7, 2013

Drones, surveillance towers, malls of the spy state and the national security police on the northern border.

Immigration Policy June 7, 2012

The wild world of border security and boundary building in Arizona.