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...