– reposted from the O’odham Solidarity Across Borders blog

To all those unaware of the fine print of Obama’s immigration plan:

First and foremost, it will direct more resources to border security. Meaning…further militarization of Indigenous communities who are divided by the so-called border, such as my home community of the Tohono O’odham […]

Statement on S.744 Border Enforcement

When Senate Bill S744 passed the Senate Judiciary committee, it already represented a grotesque level of border militarization. With a price tag of 6.6 billion dollars, adding 3,500 new troops and with a stated goal of total surveillance of the Southern border, the bill was already characterized by DHS Secretary […]

Statement on S.744 Border Enforcement

When Senate Bill S.744 passed the Senate Judiciary committee, it already represented a grotesque level of border militarization. With a price tag of 6.6 billion dollars, adding 3,5000 new troops and with a stated goal of total surveillance of the Southern border, the bill was already characterized by DHS Secretary […]

these ideas seem like they would need to be in some kind of visual form. one  idea based on taking things as they are, and simply switching the players. the other is to think about borders more broadly as violent cuts made into the fabric of interconnectivity that links us with each other and within […]

there are several examples for visualizing the so-called path to citizenship — they are all optimistic, and not realistic. they also all begin by taking this idea of the “path” as though it is really that — instead, we could visualize it as an obstacle course, or

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/erikalee/hist3862/Pathway_Citizenship.pdf

these visualizations focus on the applicant, as […]