| 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 country's foreign wars have begun to wind down, defense contractors look here, on the southern border, to make money.The Border Patrol, the largest federal law enforcement agency, has become an expensive military apparatus deployed to police and capture immigrants. they have disrupted the lives of tens of thousands of people like Stewart Loew who live and work near the border. There's a point on Interstate 19 that buzzes with what borderland residents call the "men in green," who stop and interrogate everyone who drives past. Border Patrol vehicles scan the off-road areas smugglers and migrants use to circumvent official checkpoints. A mobile control tower with a sophisticated surveillance system mounted...just read what is happening... |
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