International Policy Report: Fallacies of High-Tech Fixes for Border Security by Tom Barry, TransBorder Project, April 2010 The Center for I...

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...