John,
Militarization feeds into much more of the world around us than we realize, from police on the streets; to immigration policy, to the climate crisis crashing down around us. In order to stop this growing state violence, we need to understand how it works.
This week [[link removed]] , NPP and United We Dream with Dissenters illustrate in 5 steps how the U.S. turned communities in its own Southern border region into never-ending, low-intensity war zones.

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Over the past several decades, the United States’ Southern border region has undergone significant military escalations. The influence of military strategies, culture, technologies, hardware, and combat veterans in the policing of borders has led to what we recognize today as a militarized border region.

After the Vietnam War in the 1970s, the U.S. brought military electronic surveillance technology back home to the Southern border. Since then, and especially after 9/11 and the creaton of the Dept. of Homeland Security in 2003, border militarization has turbocharged.

In the past two decades, the budget for immigration and border enforcement [[link removed]] , including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), has multiplied more than 11 times, to $24.2 billion by 2019. The ballooning budget helps the agencies acquire more military-grade equipment.

Visit unitedwedream.org/defundhate [[link removed]] for more graphics and resources.
This is also your chance to learn more about and support a new anti-militarism youth movement organization: Dissenters [[link removed]] . Stay tuned—we’ll be adding more graphics and resources to the site next week!
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In solidarity,
Lorah, Ashik, Lindsay, and the NPP team at IPS

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