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About Todd Miller

Todd Miller, a TomDispatch regular, is the author of Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Homeland Security. He has written on border and immigration issues for the New York Times, Al Jazeera America, and NACLA Report on the Americas and its blog Border Wars, among other places. You can follow him on twitter @memomiller and view more of his work at toddwmiller.wordpress.com.

Articles by Todd Miller

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European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

How Israeli high-tech firms are outfitting the US-Mexico border

Todd Miller and Gabriel M. Schivone 26 January 2015

American academic and corporate knowhow and Mexican low-wage manufacturing are to fuse with Israel’s border and homeland security companies.

The creation of a border security state

Tom Engelhardt and Todd Miller 22 April 2014

Americans may increasingly wonder whether NSA agents are scouring their meta-data, reading their personal emails, and the like. On the US-Mexican border no imagination is necessary.

Border patrol international

Todd Miller 22 November 2013

The U.S. border is no longer static and 'homeland security' no longer stays in the homeland: it’s mobile, it’s rapid, and it's international. Todd Miller exposes the growing border-security complex.

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