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Jul 21
This is one of the things that a lot of people don't recognize or maybe won't recognize until it's too late, is that the tools that are being used to control the movement or to deport people or to lock them up against the so-called other… Those are also used against citizens. This is something that is certainly happening right now. There's been a lot of reporting about the number of people who are US citizens who have been detained by ICE. Obviously, a few at least have been shot and murdered by ICE. This is something that goes way back as well. There was this conflation in through a couple of the Red Scares of both the scare of immigrants and the scare of so-called subversives. And these things often go hand-to-hand. We’re seeing right now and we've been seeing for decades the implementation of checkpoints, especially in the US Southwest.

John Washington returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his new book “The Case For Open Borders” published by Haymarket Books.  

John Washington is a journalist covering the border, climate change, democracy, and more. He has written for The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Nation, The Intercept, and other outlets. He is the author of The Case for Open Borders and The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexico Border and Beyond. Washington is also a translator of books by Anabel Hernandez, Sandra Rodriquez Nieto, and others. His most recent translations include The Hollywood Kid by Óscar... read more

 


Episode 1921
Jul 21

White Supremacy At The US Border / John Washington

Episode 1920
Jul 15

Canada and its Asshole Neighbor + Chuck Gets Interviewed / Dónal Gill

Episode 1919
Jul 14

How To Think About AI Before It’s Too Late / Cory Doctorow

Episode 1918
Jul 8

Nativism Shapes Scarcity, Hierarchy, and Belonging Under Capitalism / Peter Bloom

Episode 1917
Jul 7

The Anti-Defamation League & The Racial State / Emmaia Gelman

Episode 1916
Jul 1

Gerontocracy / Samuel Moyn

Episode 1915
Jun 24

A History of Conspiracy Theory / Andrew McKenzie-McHarg

Episode 1914
Jun 17

Chicago's Conviction Machine / Flint Taylor

Episode 1913
Jun 16

The Story Of The Jewish Bund / Molly Crabapple

Episode 1912
Jun 10

Inventing Antifa / Lauren Fadiman