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CityLab Daily: What Border Violence and Urban Policing Have in Common
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Throughlines: Watching Border Patrol agents fire tear gas at San Diego-Tijuana border crossings this Thanksgiving might have felt like the Trump administration crossing another line in pursuing its aggressive immigration policies. But militarization at the U.S.-Mexico border has parallels to intensifying police militarization in U.S. cities over the past three to four decades. As the border security apparatus has grown, so have local police departments with military-grade weapons and surveillance tools.