Homeland Security

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/4/2022
  

  The Coming Pregnancy Surveillance State Will Bring "Homeland Security" to Women's Bodies

  by Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz

  The Dobbs ruling puts longstanding racist and nationalist beliefs that white women's reproductive labor is the price of their citizenship, and punitive controls on women of color, on collision course with the modern capacity of digital surveillance, threatening the criminalization of any miscarried pregnancy. 

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  4/18/2022
  

  Texas Governors Have Politicized "Border Security" for Decades. What Have They Accomplished?

  Texas governors since 9/11 have pledged billions to secure the state's border with Mexico, but a lack of accountability suggests that electoral and partisan concerns have been the key motive. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  7/25/2020
  

  Homeland Security Was Destined to Become a Secret Police Force

  by Masha Gessen

  On behalf of the D.H.S. and its uniformed services, Director Chad Wolf claimed responsibility for the armed presence in Portland. He asserted that his agency was doing exactly what it was created to do. He was right.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  7/22/2020
  

  The Border Patrol’s Brute Power in Portland is the Norm at the Border

  by Karl Jacoby

  What’s happening in Oregon reflects the long history of unprecedented police powers granted to federal border agents over what has become a far more expansive border zone than most Americans realize. 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  7/22/2020
  

  Federal Agents in Portland Set a Dangerous Precedent

  by Tom Mockaitis

  The sight of armed men in combat fatigues without name tags driving around in unmarked vehicles to detain protestors might have been expected in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, or the Latin American dictatorships of the 1970s. Such tactics have no place on the streets of an American city in 2020.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  7/18/2020
  

  Could Trump Use DHS to Suppress Voting?

  Trump's ordering of DHS personnel to arrest protesters in Portland should be seen in light of the expiration of a critical 1982 consent decree under which the Republican National Committee has agreed not to deploy law enforcement officers to polling stations. That conduct will no longer be barred in 2020.

• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  2-7-13
  

  Todd Miller: The Constitution-Free Zone of our Northern Border

  Todd Miller has researched and written about U.S.-Mexican border issues for more than 10 years. He has worked on both sides of the border for BorderLinks in Tucson, Arizona, and Witness for Peace in Oaxaca, Mexico. He now writes on border and immigration issues for NACLA Report on the Americas and its blog “Border Wars,” among other places. He is at work on his first book, Border Patrol Nation, for the Open Media Series of City Lights Books.Originally posted on TomDispatch.com