Immigration Enforcement, Border Security, and Reform

Parking lot at Reeves County Detention Center in Pecos, Texas operated by GEO/Tom Barry 1.   (One of the recommendations from a draft CIP po...

Inside the Drug War (Sort of)

To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War John Gibler City Lights Books, 2011 U.S. progressive analysts come to the Mexican drug...

Border Patrol Strategy Origins and Lack of Strategic Focus

Sierra Blanca Checkpoint/Tom Barry The Border Patrol’s 1994 "Prevention Through Deterrence" strategy -- the agency's first str...

Border Patrol History: Origins of "Prevention Through Deterrence" Strategy

(Second of three-part series on Border Patrol history before onset of border security framework of border control.) In the political context...

"Border Control" Before "Border Security"

(First in three-part series on Border Patrol  prior to adopting the  "border security" framework.) Following the September 11 terr...

Securing Arizona -- Model State or Failed State?

(Excerpted concluding paragraphs from my cover article in new Boston Review, at:  http://bostonreview.net/BR36.2/tom_barry_arizona_tea_party...