9/11's Border Legacy: Razor Wire, "Smart" Surveillance, and Billions in Security Contracts

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : CBP hired PR firms to cultivate a new post-9/11 brand.
62% : Mayorkas is just the latest in a long line of DHS and CBP top leaders who have passed through the revolving door of private industry and government.
61% : Anduril Industries' sentry towers and ghost drones are just one of $2.4 billion and $1.6 billion worth in contracts doled out to CBP and ICE, respectively, from Biden's inaugural month to the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
57% : When I first began reporting on this burgeoning border industry in 2012, the combined budgets of CBP and ICE ($18 billion) were already larger than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined, including the FBI, the DEA, the Secret Service, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
55% : From 2008 to the present, at least 108,214 contracts have been doled out by CBP and ICE worth a whopping $59.5 billion.
50% : " The smartphone has met the border wall.
39% : The idea was that by building walls, doubling the Border Patrol, and reinforcing it with technology in border cities like Nogales, El Paso, and San Diego, people would be forced to cross into more deadly and dangerous areas, like the Arizona desert.

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