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Border patrol nation : dispatches from the front lines of Homeland Security / Todd Miller.

by Miller, Todd, 1970- author.

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San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, c2014.

U.S. Border Patrol -- History.

Mexican-American Border Region -- Economic conditions.

9780872866317 (pbk.) :

0872866319 (pbk.)

Open media book.

355 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

The super patrol -- Hearts, minds, and bodies. The complex-builders ; Doing nice things for children ; "Exactly the way we think" -- The boundaries of empire. Unfinished business in Indian country ; The not-so-soft underbelly of the North ; America's backyard -- The war within. Feeding the monster ; The Border Police State ; U.S. citizens in name only ; Reimagining the Niagara frontier.

Few seem to notice or care that the US Border Patrol is monitoring the Super Bowl, as they have for years, one of the many ways that forces once created to police the borders are now being used in an increasingly militarized fashion, to monitor the whole of American society. Miller sounds an alarm as he chronicles this change in our country. Traveling the U.S. and beyond to speak with the people most involved with and impacted by the Border Patrol, he combines these first-hand encounters with careful research to expose a vast and booming industry for high-end technology, weapons, surveillance, and prisons.

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