Todd Miller

Armed authorities watch from a military-grade surveillance tower as lines of people stream toward the security checkpoint, tickets in hand, anxious and excited to get through. Few seem to notice or care that the US Border Patrol is monitoring the Super Bowl, as they have for years....

As global warming accelerates, droughts last longer, floods rise higher, and super-storms become more frequent. With increasing numbers of people on the move as a result, the business of containing them - border fortification - is booming....

The United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad - and essentially expanding its borders in the process. The 21st century has been an era of hardening borders-increased borderland patrols, surveillance, and militarization are widening the chasm between those who can vacation (or do...