Claire's Brother
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 20 Jun
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The way that this mechanism is constructed for the in-group to be able to move freely around the world and the out-group to have an incredibly hard time actually coming into the U.S.
My friend Erica from Alotolada likes to say, we already have open borders.
We already have no borders, just only for some people.
Yeah, exactly.
And of course, I'd be remiss not to mention that capital flows very easily through borders as if they do not exist.
Yeah, because they don't for money.
Yeah.
As Miller lays out in Empire of Borders, post 9-11, the U.S.
adopted a very strong policy of considering terrorism against American interest, quote, over there, needing to be regarded in the same way as terrorism over here, right?
And of course, terrorism, the way that the U.S.
government sees it, is probably extremely different from the way that you and I see it, James.
Yes.
So this ideology essentially pushed the American border everywhere because everything that the U.S.
didn't agree with was a threat to its interests.
This is essentially kind of the same reasoning as the Monroe Doctrine and the American empire just massaged it for the modern world in some ways.
This is why international collaboration between American immigration enforcement and border security agencies has skyrocketed since the dawn of the millennium.
To the point that CBP agents have traveled around the world to show countries how to enforce their country's borders so that people inside of those countries wanting to leave and reach the United States borders are never able to do so.
We talked a little bit about this.
I can't remember if it was on air or off air about how Bovino did that in Honduras.
Yeah, that's right.
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