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Praise for Build Bridges, Not Walls

“As more and more millions are forced to migrate to survive, and as militarized borders disfigure an ever-increasing portion of the Earth’s surface, Todd Miller’s analysis and reporting have become essential to understanding both the world in which we live and the one for which we have to fight. In Build Bridges, Not Walls, Miller writes with poetry, unfailing critical intelligence, and most of all with heart. He cuts through the facile media myths and escapes the paralyzing constraints of a political ‘debate’ that functions mainly to obscure the unconscionable inequalities that borders everywhere secure. In its soulfulness, its profound moral imagination, and its vision of radical solidarity, Todd Miller’s work is as indispensable as the love that so palpably guides it.”

—Ben Ehrenreich, author of Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time

“Todd Miller lays bare the senselessness and soullessness of the nation-state and its borders and border walls, and reimagines, in their place, a complete and total restoration, therefore redemption, of who we are, and of who we are in desperate need of becoming.”

—Brandon Shimoda, author of The Grave on the Wall

“All of Todd Miller’s work is essential reading, but Build Bridges, Not Walls is his most compelling, insightful book yet. Miller’s storytelling is woven together with his rigorous research on the inner workings of border control systems and how they worsen the concentration of global wealth and the suffering caused by climate change. Build Bridges, Not Walls makes a convincing argument for border abolition that builds on the police and prison abolition movement’s insights, helping us see that the plans to make border enforcement more fair are shams, and that imagining and creating a world without borders is entirely possible.”

—Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)

“Based on years of work as a journalist and his engagements with migrants, Miller calls us to see how borders subject millions of people to violence, dehumanization, and early death. More important, he highlights the urgent necessity to abolish not only borders, but the nation-state itself. Drawing on the work of abolitionist movement leaders, this book points toward the radical opening of the imagination urgently needed to transform walls into bridges.”

—A. Naomi Paik, author of Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century

“Todd Miller and his four-year-old son William invite us to imagine future bicycles and playgrounds where we now see the steel bollards of border walls. Drawing on years of reporting and the work of scholars, thinkers, and activists from around the world—such as Bayo Akomolafe’s concepts of ‘fugitive spirit’ and ‘modest criminality’—Miller builds a case for imagining the seemingly impractical, the supposedly impossible idea of a living in a world without borders, and without the states that so desperately, and so violently, cling to them.”

—John Gibler, author of Torn from the World: A Guerrilla’s Escape from a Secret Prison in Mexico

“By documenting the human toll of border walls, expanded security, and racialized policing, Miller makes the urgent case to abolish borders now.”

—Reece Jones, author of White Borders

“Todd Miller’s Build Bridges, Not Walls is an eloquent and urgent call to dismantle the narrative of ‘border security,’ denouncing this sinister concept not as a policy seeking to protect the general population, but rather ‘as an apparatus to enforce extreme inequalities and power imbalances.’ Through careful reporting and vivid personal experience, Miller illuminates the immediate need to bring people closer in an era of dehumanizing violence that is at the heart of U.S. political discourse and institutions.”

—Oswaldo Zavala, journalist and professor of Latin American literature and culture at the City University of New York and author of Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking and

Culture in Mexico

“Todd Miller’s deeply reported, empathetic writing on the American border is some of the most essential journalism being done in America today. It’s impossible to read his work without coming away changed.”

—Adam Conover, creator and host of Adam Ruins Everything