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What the War on Terror Has Done to Texas

By Mary Jo McConahay, Texas Observer. Posted September 25, 2006.


The number of National Guard expected to serve on the border in the next two years will reach into the tens of thousands. Yet Bush insists, "The United States is not going to militarize the southern border."
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What the War on Terror Has Done to Texas

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Mary Jo McConahay is an independent journalist and contributing editor for New America Media.

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