Privatizing Homeland Security

Nearly one of three dollars of the annual $42 billion budget of the Department of Homeland Security budget flows to private contractors. The...

Homeland Security Partnership Promoted by New Business Council

Within the defense industry there is widespread talk of a more expansive partnership between government and business. The new partnership de...

The Homeland Security Boom

(Part of a BorderLines series on the Homeland Security Complex.) Color it red. The Obama administration has left in place the brightly colo...

Death in Texas

(The following is an excerpt from a recently published essay of mine in the Boston Review . It is online at http://bostonreview.net/ ) The O...

Immigrant Gulag Larger Than Homeland Security's Detention Centers

The Obama administration is trying to wiggle its way out of the immigration crisis created by the Bush administration without taking any dec...

Talking About Insurrection

Getting into the federal building in Pecos, Texas takes political sophistication – something I was apparently lacking when attempting to ent...

Technical Wish Fulfillment on the Border -- A History of Waste and Deception

Human rights, racial profiling, social costs,and justice are among the leading concerns of the critics of toughening immigration and border ...