Todd Miller is the author of Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security (Open Media). He has written on border and immigration issues for the New York Times, Al Jazeera America, and NACLA Report on the Americas and its blog Border Wars, among other places. You can follow him on Twitter @memomiller and view more of his work at toddwmiller.wordpress.com.
Alex Devoid reports on border and immigration issues as a freelance multimedia and print journalist. He has written for NACLA Report on the Americas and has worked for BorderLinks in Tucson, Arizona, and Acción Médica Cristiana in Managua, Nicaragua. You can follow Alex on Twitter at @devoidalex.
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