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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsApartheid Wall in Arizona? Israeli Company Contracted to Build U.S.-Mexico Border Fence
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/apartheid-wall-arizona-israeli-company-contracted-build-us-mexico-border-fence
March 7, 2014
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This week, the Israeli company Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that its subsidiary won a contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Protection to produce and install surveillance systems along the U.S.-Mexico border. The company is famous for providing "intrusion detection systems and other infastructure support for the Israeli West Bank barrier.
The subsidiary was awarded a $145 million contract for a project called the Integrated Fixed Tower (IFT), which is to be built on the Mexico-Arizona border over the next year. The contract also guarantees eight years of infrastructure support from Elbit Systems.
The project outlines the construction of an undisclosed number of observation towers at the border by Nogales, Arizona, a town about an hour south of Tucson. Additional towers could be built at five other areas along the states border.
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Apartheid Wall in Arizona? Israeli Company Contracted to Build U.S.-Mexico Border Fence (Original Post)
Skidmore
Aug 2014
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Couldn't find a US company to this, I guess? Might make for attractive jobs.. Maybe even
kelliekat44
Aug 2014
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kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)1. Couldn't find a US company to this, I guess? Might make for attractive jobs.. Maybe even
IDF will be contracted to man the wall?
hack89
(39,171 posts)3. Elbit Systems has offices and factories in seven states
I suspect that all the work will be done by Americans.
Trillo
(9,154 posts)4. EBIT systems is one of the companies for which the BDS
movement has called for divestment.
hack89
(39,171 posts)5. Don't see that happening
their products are cutting edge and in high demand. I also don't see BDS gaining much traction in America.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)2. Seems fitting.
Next we can hire them to find the tunnels that are inevitably built to bypass walls.