ABOUT THE AUTHOR

For the past 15 years Todd Miller has researched, written about, and worked on immigration and border issues from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico divide for organizations such as BorderLinks, Witness for Peace, and NACLA. He is the author of Border Patrol Nation (City Lights, 2014), and his writings about the border have appeared in the New York Times, Mother Jones, The Nation, TomDispatch, Al Jazeera English, and Salon, among other places.