Joe Biden Is Delivering Big for the Border-Industrial Complex
Joe Biden may have dropped Trump’s racist justifications for a border wall, but the “border-industrial complex” is still alive and well — and still monstrously profitable.
Todd Miller is the author of Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World, Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security, and Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security. He’s a contributing editor on border and immigration issues for NACLA Report on the Americas and its column “Border Wars.”
Joe Biden may have dropped Trump’s racist justifications for a border wall, but the “border-industrial complex” is still alive and well — and still monstrously profitable.
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