Hightower: Look Out - Here Comes the New Border-Industrial Complex Jim Hightower - lubbockonline.com
go to original August 3, 2013

US-Mexico border security beefed up - Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports from the city of Mexicali (AlJazeeraEnglish)

"Good fences make good neighbors," goes the old adage. That civilizing thought refers to such friendly structures as the beautiful rock walls of New England, elegant split rails in the South, iconic whitewashed pickets of the Midwest and even privacy fences in neighborhoods all across our country.

But the neighborly adage definitely did not contemplate the 700-mile, 20-foot-high, drone-patrolled, electronically monitored fence of steel and razor wire our government has erected across our nation’s border with Mexico, from the tip of Texas to California’s Pacific Coast.

This thing is not a fence, but a monstrous wall of hostility, a deliberate affront to our Mexican neighbors. As Sen. John McCain aptly put it in a recent debate on immigration, our Land of the Free has constructed “the most militarized border since the fall of the Berlin Wall!”

There are four big flaws with the theory you can “secure” a border (i.e., keep people from crossing it) by throwing up a big ol’ wall.

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