Watch Detention Watch Network, and Join the Network

The member conference of the Detention Watch Network is coming up (Sept. 24-25), and many of its members believe it is time to organize to ...

Speculative Prisons in Texas

(The Prison State of Texas, Part II) ICE, USMS, and BOP all have contracts and agreements with county governments – most of them impoverishe...

The Prison State of Texas

Texas is a national leader, having the nation’s highest percentage of residents who are uninsured, the highest percentage without a high sch...

Former Bush Security Chiefs Find Terrorism Obsession Can Be Profitable

Contracts with the Department of Homeland Security are spewing billions of dollars into private industry, largely to companies that also rel...

Bigger and Badder Than Blackwater

Blackwater USA, the world’s largest private security firm (recently renamed Xe), is the subject of much public concern about the outsourcing...

Homeland is a Battleground Without Liability

One of the earliest indications that the Department of Homeland Security was going to be a font contracts and opportunities for the defense ...

Bush DOD Official Returns to Business

Gordon England, the former deputy secretary of defense who replaced the controversial Paul Wolfowitz in 2005, has returned from whence he ca...

Chertoff Pumps Up Homeland Security Business

Not relying solely on its industry contracts, the Chertoff Group is also benefiting from a trail of media interviews and media events that b...

Chertoff's Strategic Partnership with "PR Firm from Hell"

(Part of a BorderLines' seried on Border Security Industrial Complex) Chertoff Group, founded by former DHS Secretary Michael Chertof...

The New Business of Homeland Security

(Sixth in the BorderLines ' series on the Border Security Industrial Complex.) DHS ’ private contracting provides one look at the new h...

Chertoff Group Covers Homeland Security

(Fifth in a BorderLines' series on the Border Security Industrial Complex.) Michael Chertoff, former secretary of the Department of Home...

Homeland Security's Revolving Door

(Third in the BorderLines' series on the Border Security Industrial Complex.) Contracts with the Department of Homeland Security are spe...

El Paso: Booming Military/Security Center

(Fourth in BorderLines' series of Border Industrial Security Complex) At the recent Border Security Conference at the University of Tex...

Blockading the Border

Book Review Blockading the Border and Human Rights: The El Paso Operation That Remade Immigration Enforcement To understand where we now st...

Border Security and the Academy

Even before the March 2003 opening of the Department of Homeland Security plans were underway to involve universities in the new effort for ...

Is There A Border Security Industrial Complex?

The Homeland Security Act of 2002 set in motion a security-focused approach to border and immigration issues. As part of the creation of the...

The Snakehead -- Immigrant Smugglers and the American Dream

Book Review The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream By Patrick Radden Keefe Doubleday, 2009 For those...

Border Security, Homeland Security, & Now "Community Security"

The immigration system was badly broken before it became the purview of the Department of Homeland Security. But now that immigration is the...