“This money will be used to create what John McCain calls ‘the most militarized border since the fall of the Berlin Wall,’ staffed by at least 38,405 Border Patrol agents. That’s a larger force than George W. Bush had stationed in Afghanistan when he left office. No wonder it’s been called the ‘border surge.’ Those agents will be armed with billions of dollars worth of equipment from America’s leading war profiteers. As usual, militarization means obscene corporate profits at taxpayer expense. Moreover, increasing ‘border security’ funding means expanding an agency whose members routinely violate civil liberties and have even committed murder.”
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