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US border policing grew directly from the US’s history of settler colonial violence. Border patrol evolved from white supremacist extralegal paramilitary groups and lynch mobs. I wrote a book about this. It is a pattern that white supremacist extralegal violence gets institutionalized by the state.
January 25, 2026 at 6:46 PM
US border policing grew directly from the US’s history of settler colonial violence. Border patrol evolved from white supremacist extralegal paramilitary groups and lynch mobs. I wrote a book about this. It is a pattern that white supremacist extralegal violence gets institutionalized by the state.