Status Updates From Border and Rule: Global Mig...

Enjoying more and more!!

Many thoughts about this book, mainly that it quoted my old umass professor Martín Espada which made me happy 😌💖 obv idk what the rest of the book holds but so far I think this text is really valuable for reference in terms of facts and figures! Lots of interesting stats, data, etc. but I would say not so helpful in terms of a nuanced argument/intervention/prescriptive suggestion. Enjoying though!!

Listening to audiobook… Trying not to have it go over my head but I think I’ll have to buy the physical version and reread so I can annotate 😬😬

(CW) wild factual excerpts from chapter 1 that only scratch the surface: the first border patrol agents being recruited from texas rangers (lynching vigilantes) and Klansmen; the La Matanza period of mass killings of Mexicans; the ICE ACCESS program being based on the Fugitive Slave Act; the formation of CA beginning with “two dozen state-funded militia like expeditions authorized to kill Indigenous people”.