Border For Sale

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As with Iraq, it's "pigs at the trough" time once again.
When you privatize war and border security the "for profit" corporations drool.
War policy gets written by Halliburton and border security gets written by the likes of Lockheed Martin, etc...

However, that is par-for-the-course considering who wrote our Energy Bill, Bankruptcy Laws, Prescription Drug Plan, and the era of the over used "no-bid contract".

More pillaging of our tax dollars by Bush and his cronies:

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Border for Sale
Privatizing Immigration Control
by Joseph Richey, Special to CorpWatch
July 5th, 2006

Five major military contractors are competing to design a system to tackle up to two million undocumented immigrants a year in the United States. Boeing, Ericsson, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon are working on proposals that focus on high technology rather than high fences, but ignoring some of the fundamental problems of immigration.

At each checkpoint along the path to citizenship or deportation -- from desert wilderness to urban labyrinth -- private contractors are expected to be hired to detect, apprehend, vet, detain, process, and potentially incarcerate or deport people seeking economic and human rights asylum in the U.S.

An indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract, estimated at $2.5 billion, for the Secure Border Initiative Network (SBInet) will be awarded September 30th 2006, to build a seamless web of new surveillance technology and sensors with real time communications systems for Customs and Border Protection (CBP). The plan also includes funds for additional personnel, vehicles and physical infrastructure for fencing, and virtual fencing for U.S. borders.

The new contract is part of the $43.5 billion Homeland Security (DHS) budget for 2007, with up to 20 percent increases in areas of internal enforcement and border protection. This has brought new fervor to the domestic security industry. Security executives around the country are pulling late hours preparing proposals and bids that will cost billions in federal tax dollars

CONTINUED: http://www.corpwatch.org/print_article.php?id=13845




And still more:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/07/06/minutemen-fence-scam-2/

[madrchsod]

1. private contractors who will murder brown people

and get away with it as they do in iraq..we have become the enemy

[Toots]

2. You sound as if this is something new for America

Since before we were even officially a country we have been killing brown people for profit..:shrug: Apparently killing brown people is good business.