Praise for Blood Red Lines:

“Blood Red Lines makes an important contribution to the political debate over immigration by refusing to debate on the terms of those who would see immigration—and citizenship—savagely curtailed… This is a call to continuous action on the left.” –New Republic

“Equally informed by scholarship, by theory, and by action on the ground, Blood Red Lines has set the bar for new works on the contemporary fascist right, for researchers and antifascist organizers both.” —Dissent

“A searing and wide-ranging investigation …. O’Connor’s impressive research and investigative skills shine through.” —Publishers Weekly

“Brendan O'Connor's Blood-Red Lines connects the dots, providing a vivid account of the rise of a unique kind of U.S. fascism, born on the border but now nationalized. O'Connor simultaneously produces empathy and outrage, in the exact proportions we need to fight back. Indispensable.” —Greg Grandin, Peter V. and C. Vann Woodward Professor of History at Yale University and author of The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America

"In Blood-Red Lines, Brendan O'Connor draws a dizzying map of the institutions, ideas, and people connecting American capitalism to white supremacist fascism—and illuminates the way immigration sits at the dead center of this machinery, providing both fodder for and a challenge to our national regime of exploitation, and opening up the path to new visions of solidarity and possibility. This is a painful, clear-sighted, casually shocking, necessary read." —Jia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion

"Blood-Red Lines is a forensic deep-dive into the dark arterial network of the anti-immigrant far-right. In an engaging journalistic method and story-telling style, O’Connor presents a map-like, chronological exposé of the white nationalist origination of restrictionist policy and its comfortable convergence with capitalist political economy. He painstakingly details the methods by which these toxic ideas have enabled opportunists, demagogues, and fascist foot-soldiers to gain entry and influence within the political mainstream. Not to despair, O’Connor also introduces us to the people, organizations, and efforts taking shape to defeat the resurgent far-right. Anyone trying to understand how the far-right has surged in ranks and influence in recent decades—and everyone committed to the cause of justice for migrants and refugees—needs to read this book and take action." —Justin Akers Chacón, author of No One is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the US-Mexico Border

"Blood-Red Lines lucidly distills scholarly literature and marshals years of on-the-ground reporting to explain and expose how manufactured border and immigration threats have become the central means through which racist demagogues mobilize right-wing politics against a liberal capitalist state in crisis. It is because racism always drove nationalist and capitalist US politics in their ascendance, O'Connor shows, they have also definitively shaped today's Trumpist reaction." —Dan Denvir, author of All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It

"O’Connor has stood in the desert with activists seeking to rescue migrants, watched as militant antifascists battled the far right, and milled around at a ‘border security expo’ where new tools of state violence are marketed. Standing on these front lines, he has been in a unique position to observe a disturbing sameness, the ways politicians, vigilantes and neo-Nazis alike exploit blood, soil and borders for their own, poisonous ends. Blood-Red Lines is a work of groundbreaking reporting and intense urgency, focused on how ‘fringe’ and ‘mainstream’ far-right groups are all inter-related, interconnected, and, ultimately, focused on the same deadly goals." —Anna Merlan, author of Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power

"In this brilliantly clear-eyed book, O’Connor deftly unties the odious rat-king of old-money nativism, murderous fascism and rapacious neo-liberalism, exposing how white-supremacy lies at the core of not just capitalism but America itself." —Vegas Tenold, author of Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America

"A wide-ranging, deep-thinking, profoundly necessary book on the overlap between the alt-right and anti-immigrant movements on the boil in the United States—what O'Connor aptly calls border fascism. O'Connor deftly identifies the diverse contemporary and historical strains of xenophobic, racist, white nationalist, misogynistic, and eugenicist thought that has laid the groundwork for Trumpism, anti-immigrant cruelty, and insurgent alt-right violence in the United States. For anybody studying immigration policy or trends today, this part of the story cannot be overlooked: O'Connor's work in Blood-Red Lines is essential." —John Washington, author of The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexican Border and Beyond