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...

Koch Brothers Help Shape Arizona Politics

The Koch brothers are bankrolling the assault on unions in Wisconsin , as detailed in the New York Times and elsewhere.   The billionaire b...

Running on Empty in Arizona

Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce “That is what we ran on,” said State Senate President Russell Pearce, hailing the approval by both h...

Arizona's Tea Party Politics

Billboard in Tombstone, Arizona/Tom Barry Arizona’s state politics are especially predictable – and bizarre. The predictability comes from t...