Center for Immigration Studies Strikes Back

A lengthy report by the Center for Immigration Studies released on March 18, 2010 is titled “Immigration and the SPLC: How the Southern Pove...

Synergy in Security: National Security Complex

(This is a feature article in the March/April issue of Dollars & Sense magazine, at:  http://dollarsandsense.org/archives/2010/0310barry...

The Homeland Security Department Disaster

(This is the second in a series on the state of the Department of Homeland Security. The first part is at: http://borderlinesblog.blogspot.c...

National Magazine Award Nomination

Some personal news. That article I wrote for the Boston Review , "Death In Texas," has been nominated along with the magazine and ...

Homeland Security's Mindless Drone Strategy

(The final article in a series on the turn to SBInet and UAVs for border security.) Customs and Border Enforcement, the Homeland Security ag...

Border Drone Payload -- Marijuana at $70K a Pound, But Immigrants Come Cheaper

The Border Patrol points to the increasing number of arrests and amount of drugs seized as evidence of UAV benefits. In promoting expanded U...

Drone Lobby in Congress

Since the start of DHS’ drone program it has counted on the strong support of the increasingly influential Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-Tex.), th...