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Who Is Securing the Texas Border? How Private Contractors Mislead the Public, Then Get Rich Off Taxpayer Money

Tom Barry, AlterNet. March 12, 2012.

Private contractors have taken over Texas border security operations, but are falsely identifying themselves as affiliates of state programs.

DHS Pumping Money into Drones for Domestic Surveillance, Hunting Immigrants and Seizing Pot

Tom Barry, AlterNet. January 16, 2012.

DHS has little to show for its drone spending spree other than stacks of seized marijuana and a few thousand immigrants who crossed the border without visas.

How Unaccountable Private Contractors Pocket Your Tax Dollars Militarizing the Texas Border

Tom Barry, AlterNet. September 27, 2011.

Heavy on outsourcing and lacking documented success, the "Texas model"of border security's features are not original, but borrowed directly from the DHS or the military.

McCain on Immigration: Then and Now

Maurice Belanger, ImmPolitic. April 22, 2010.

McCain used to say: “I don’t believe there is another issue that is more important to our Nation than immigration reform…We can no longer afford to delay reform.”

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