"Fire!" in a Burning Theater

Resources from this podcast:

• ICDC Medical Response FOIA

  • 12-Page Responsive Document

  • Final Response Letter

  • Bipartisan Senate PSI Report

  • Whistleblower Report

  • Project South/CREW FOIA Report

  • Intercept Article

• Hoffmann-Miller FOIA Collective

  • New Production - The Day the Border Became a Crisis

  • DocumentCloud

  • 2023 Narrative Summary of Records (CW: Images of people who died in unlawful detention)

  • 2022 Intercept Article

  • New CBP Record

  • Court Order & Memorandum

  • January 24, 2019 DHS MPP Announcement

  • Submission to the High Court of Mexico

  • National Archives & Records Administration Letter

  • Juarez Fire

• Necropolitics

  • Ian Scholer’s Article

  • Ariadne Estévez, The Necropolitical Production and Management of Forced Migration

  • Achille Mbembe

• Tacoma, La Resistencia, and Screaming Fire! Outside a Burning Building

  • La Resistencia IG

  • La Resistencia LinkTree

  • Maru on DemocracyNow!

  • Colorado Legislators’ Letter

  • New Mexico Sen. Heinrich Closure Demand

• ICE Detention Statistics & Guaranteed Bed Minimums

  • ICE page

  • TRAC page

  • Guaranteed Bed Minimums

    • DWN

    • GAO Report

Border Theater and Necropolitics in Piedras Negras (CW: Fatal State Violence):

2024:

2019:

February 2019 Eagle Pass:

February 2024 Eagle Pass:

Both dueling sets of border visits (2019 & 2024) came around each respective President’s State of the Union address and a big, must-pass, multi-billion spending authorization further growing the budget for the continued militarization of this park and the rest of the border. The preceding months saw allegedly record highs.

2024:

2019: