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LuckyLib

(6,817 posts)
Wed Aug 21, 2013, 04:02 PM Aug 2013

The Southwestern US border is the new US military encampment.

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The United States-Mexico border has become a war zone. It is also a transfer station for sophisticated American military technology and weapons. As our country’s foreign wars have begun to wind down, defense contractors look here, on the southern border, to make money.
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Read what ranchers are putting up with on their own land -- the hyper-militarization of Homeland Security, all in the name of apprehending Mexican workers who may cross the border.

Surveillance towers? High-tech military night vision equipment and guns mounted on platforms? Arizonans better step up -- they are living right in the middle of the next US battle camp, and it's in their own backyard.



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/18/opinion/sunday/war-on-the-border.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0

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The Southwestern US border is the new US military encampment. (Original Post) LuckyLib Aug 2013 OP
It is all designed to keep us in the US after the economy crashes egold2604 Aug 2013 #1
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