The Southwestern US border is the new US military encampment.
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The United States-Mexico border has become a war zone. It is also a transfer station for sophisticated American military technology and weapons. As our countrys foreign wars have begun to wind down, defense contractors look here, on the southern border, to make money.
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Read what ranchers are putting up with on their own land -- the hyper-militarization of Homeland Security, all in the name of apprehending Mexican workers who may cross the border.
Surveillance towers? High-tech military night vision equipment and guns mounted on platforms? Arizonans better step up -- they are living right in the middle of the next US battle camp, and it's in their own backyard.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/opinion/sunday/war-on-the-border.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0