Trump says the border is sealed. The reality is messier. The $46 billion theater with troops, surveillance towers, murder buoys, and military-grade technology.

This whole piece is a DOOZY.

#bordermilitarization
#incoherence
#opacity

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El Paso airspace shut down for 10 days for 'drone test.' This isn't about a balloon; it's about normalizing military ops in civilian areas. Vague 'security reasons' facilitate unchecked executive power at the border. Follow @The_Piaz for real analysis. #BorderMilitarization

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El Paso airspace closure over 'cartel drones'? Curiously, defense contractors' stocks love a good scare. History repeats: new threat, same old profit motive. Follow @The_Piaz for the real story. #DefenseProfits #BorderMilitarization

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NYT 'discovers' Border Patrol has aggresssive tactics! Shocking. What they omit: $17.8B budget & political incentives driving this 'issue.' It's not a bug, it's a feature. #BorderMilitarization

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Border Patrol Nation? For decades, the Border Patrol has operated with extraconstitutional powers along the U.S.-Mexico divide. Now it’s leading the charge in U.S. cities across the country.

"We are exempted from the Fourth Amendment" — CBP official, 2018. For decades, Border Patrol operated with impunity in the borderlands. Now they're 300 miles inland in Minneapolis & Chicago. The whole country has become the border.
#Immigration #BorderMilitarization

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Militarizing America’s southern border is a slippery slope Opinion: The U.S. military has been hurled into an unprecedented and dangerous role as a police force along the U.S.-Mexico border, the author of this op-ed argues.

The Trump administration’s active-duty troop deployment to the southern border signals a breakdown of civil-military boundaries—and a threat to democratic checks.
#Trump #BorderMilitarization #PosseComitatus #DemocraticInstitutions #MilitaryTimes

Immigration Weekly Update:
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Trump’s border agenda is spiraling: military zones, deportation deals with Libya, “voluntary departure” cash payouts. Courts are blocking some of it—but we’re witnessing the normalization of authoritarian tactics in plain sight

#Deportation #BorderMilitarization

U.S. declares military zone around El Paso, allowing soldiers to arrest migrants
#BorderMilitarization #ElPaso #MigrantCrisis
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Trump redefines "emergency" to impose his will Powers originally crafted to give the president flexibility in rare moments of crisis now form the backbone of Trump's agenda.

In his first 100 days, President Trump has declared more national emergencies — more creatively and more aggressively — than any president in modern American history
#Trump #EmergencyState #ExecutiveOverreach #TariffTactics #BorderMilitarization #LegalControversy​ #Axios

A symbolic editorial illustration split in two: one side shows peaceful public lands with park rangers and a justice sign; the other shows military control with soldiers, watchtowers, barbed wire, and a map, highlighting the transfer of authority over borderlands.

🚨 White House memo NSPM-4 just authorized military to take over public lands at southern border & establish "National Defense Areas" under DoD control

This shifts border security from civilian to military authority with minimal oversight 🇺🇸

#BorderMilitarization

Death in Nogales | S. C. Cornell On January 30, 2023, a forty-eight-year-old Mexican man named Gabriel Cuen Buitimea made his way into the Sonoran desert a few miles east of Nogales,

"As both parties continue to militarize the border, Republicans have begun to give voice to what is hard not to see as a longing to kill."

#USpol #USpolitics #vigilantism #BorderVigilantes #BorderMilitarization #USMexicoBorder #migrants #AntiMigrantRacism #RacializedCommunities #RacistViolence