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Praise for Border Patrol Nation by Todd Miller

“Scathing and deeply reported . . . quite possibly the right book at the right time”

—Los Angeles Times

“At the start of his unsettling and important new book, Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security, Miller observes that these days ‘it is common to see the Border Patrol in places—such as Erie, Pennsylvania; Rochester, New York; or Forks, Washington—where only fifteen years ago it would have seemed far-fetched, if not unfathomable.”

—Christian Science Monitor

“Solid, absorbing reportage on the government’s racist and constitutionally questionable notions of border security in the post-9/11 world. . . . An unsettling but important read.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“Journalist Miller tells an alarming story of U.S. Border Patrol and Homeland Security’s ever-widening reach into the lives of American citizens and legal immigrants as well as the undocumented. He describes the militarization of the Border Patrol and concurrent dehumanizing of ‘unauthorized’ persons; American citizens routinely harassed and arrested in Constitution-free zones that extend 100 miles from all borders; the expulsion of an exemplary Border Patrol agent for expressing his Mexican identity in casual conversation; and the Border Patrol’s Explorer Academy for children, which, with its lock-step marching, black boots, law-enforcement training, and indoctrination is eerily evocative of fascism and Hitler Youth. Miller reveals the ‘complex and industrial world’ looming behind the border patrol, spanning ‘robotics, engineers, salespeople and detention centers’ and the new generation of Explorers. ‘It is the world in which we now live,’ he states, ‘where eradicating border violations is given higher priority than eradicating malnutrition, poverty, homelessness, illiteracy, [and] unemployment.’ In addition to readers interested in immigration issues, those concerned about the NSA’s privacy violations will likely be even more shocked by the actions of Homeland Security.”

—Publishers Weekly, starred review