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Todd Miller: CBP, DHS, & ICE Border Militarization Creating Police State

Geopolitics & Empire

Geopolitics & Empire

History, News, Government, Politics

4.2 • 568 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Todd Miller, a journalist and author specializing in the militarization of the U.S. border, argues that the current expansion of CBP and ICE is a bipartisan trend spanning decades, rather than a phenomenon exclusive to any single administration. He describes a growing “border industrial complex” where private companies profit from surveillance technologies like robotic dogs, AI towers, and biometric databases. These advanced tools and “extra-constitutional powers” are increasingly moving from the borderlands into the interior of the United States, impacting major cities and American citizens. He warns of a transitioning police state where digital walls and mass detention facilities are becoming normalized global standards.

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About Todd Miller

Todd Miller has researched and written about border issues for more than two decades, the last 10 as an independent journalist and writer. He is a longtime resident of Tucson, Arizona, but also spent many years living and working in Oaxaca, Mexico, and grew up in the Buffalo/Niagara Falls region (yes, a long-suffering Bills fan), staring across the U.S. border into Canada. His work has appeared in The New York Times, TomDispatch, The Nation, The San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, Guernica, and Al Jazeera English, among others. Todd has authored four books: Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World without Borders (City Lights, 2021); Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border around the World (Verso, 2019); Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security (City Lights, 2014); and Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration and Homeland Security (City Lights, 2017), which was awarded the 2018 Izzy Award for Excellence in Independent Journalism. He’s a contributing editor on border issues for NACLA Report on the Americas. He’s also a Scorpio, which at least partially explains the logo.

*Podcast intro music used with permission is from the song “The Queens Jig” by the fantastic “Musicke & Mirth” from their album “Music for Two Lyra Viols”: http://musicke-mirth.de/en/recordings.html (available on iTunes or Amazon)

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:11.1

If you can afford it, returning to the podcast, it's been too long.

0:15.5

Some five years, a half decade is Todd Miller, who's co-founder of The Border Chronicle.com.

0:21.9

He's based in Tucson, Arizona.

0:23.3

He's author of Border Patrol Nation, Storming the Wall, Empire of Borders and Build Bridges,

0:27.7

Not Walls.

0:29.0

Welcome back, Todd.

0:30.0

Yeah, thanks for having me.

0:31.6

It's great to be here.

0:33.7

Before getting your thoughts on some of these issues, anything you want to tell us, maybe

0:37.4

give us a refresher about the work that you're doing at the moment?

0:41.9

Yeah.

0:42.5

I do a lot with the Border Chronicle.

0:45.8

We publish Tuesdays and Thursdays and Fridays and Fridays.

0:50.6

So you can come check out this week.

0:54.7

I'm doing a piece on the militarization of the border in Arizona.

0:59.2

I was down there on Friday.

1:02.0

And I'm going to be writing up a piece about the military that's stationed on the border for this Thursday.

1:11.1

And yeah, you can, and I'm also working on, I work on a new book, which is still, in book land

1:18.6

and the time span that it takes for a book to come out.

1:22.7

It's probably a year away still, but, but I'm working hard on a new book that's looking at water and the border.

1:31.3

All right, yeah, and I highly recommend people subscribe to the website.

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