Build Bridges, Not Walls

In personal stories from twenty years of activism and reporting, an award-winning journalist calls on readers to imagine a world without borders.

"Todd Miller cuts through the facile media myths and escapes the paralyzing constraints of a political 'debate' that functions mainly to obscure the unconscionable inequalities that borders everywhere secure. In its soulfulness, its profound moral imagination, and its vision of radical solidarity, Todd Miller's work is as indispensable as the love that so palpably guides it."—Ben Ehrenreich, author of Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time

"Todd Miller's deeply reported, empathetic writing on the American border is some of the most essential journalism being done today."—Adam Conover, creator and host of Adam Ruins Everything and host of Factually!

By the time Todd Miller spots him, Juan Carlos has been wandering alone in a remote border region...