2024-05-06T15:55:18-04:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/149993596/can-trump-s-anti-immigrant-border-wall-be-built-without-immigrant-labor Julia Ingalls 2017-02-25T13:05:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/68/682h1w1feh3cr6iq.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Border agents don&rsquo;t want an opaque, precast concrete wall. Financially, the wall is unlikely to be built without immigrant labor. And historically, large-scale border walls don&rsquo;t keep people out as much as signal that an empire is caving in. Here&rsquo;s why Donald Trump&rsquo;s proposed U.S./Mexico border wall isn&rsquo;t just a moral failure, but a practical one.</p> https://archinect.com/features/article/149956364/the-whistleblower-architects-surveillance-infrastructure-and-freedom-of-information-according-to-cryptome-part-2 Nicholas Korody 2016-07-07T12:15:00-04:00 >2019-02-24T11:31:03-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/mc/mcpo3fzbdnqkpiab.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>This is the second half of a two-part interview with Cryptome, an online repository of leaked government secrets and other documents relevant to contemporary surveillance and its infrastructure. Cryptome is run by the architects Deborah Natsios and John Young, who live and work in New York City (any use of the first person is from Natsios' perspective). Part one, which you can read <a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/149955321/the-whistleblower-architects-surveillance-infrastructure-and-freedom-of-information-according-to-cryptome-part-1" target="_blank">here</a>, delves into their backgrounds and motivations. Part two deals more with their views on the contemporary city and the politics of information access.</p>