Episode 9 - ICE & Border Imperialism - a podcast by Charleston DSA

This episode provides additional analysis on ICE at the organizational level, discussing what role they play in US imperialism and white supremacy here at home. We also spend some time taking a broad view of border imperialism, and how it restricts and marginalizes people while capital is free to cross borders with relative ease.

It's important to understand that if the working class is seeking the abolition of capitalism and a permanent transition to a socialist society, all national borders must ultimately be eliminated. We touch on that too towards the end of the episode.



- You can find a link to the ICE statistics, a PDF of their arrest and removal operations for 2018 is linked in the first paragraph on their website at: https://www.ice.gov/statistics



- To find information on the TRAC program we used to compare Obama's first six years of deportations to Trump's: https://trac.syr.edu/immigration/reports/517/



- A link Harsha Walia's book at AK Press:  https://www.akpress.org/undoing-border-imperialism.html



- Some information about migration patters and population trends were pulled from the American Immigration Council's "Immigration 101" page: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/topics/immigration-101

- A link to reports of abuse and trauma suffered by people imprisoned in ICE concntration camps: https://theintercept.com/2018/04/11/immigration-detention-sexual-abuse-ice-dhs/



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