Below is a link to a recent article by Frida Berrigan with Foreign Policy in Focus. The article addresses the militarization of the U.S.-Mexico border and the position Boeing is in to profit extensively from it.
Here is a quote from the article:
“As with so many other pressing issues — from terrorism to oil dependency — the White House is turning to the military industrial complex for a solution. SBI is the plan of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to erect a “virtual fence” of monitors, sensors, unmanned planes, and communications to help border agents catch illegal immigrants crossing the southern border.
In September 2006, DHS awarded initial contracts — worth upwards of $2 billion — for the high-tech surveillance technology along border region to weapons giant Boeing.”
Clearly, Boeing is set to make billions of dollars off of this “virtual fence.” The question is exactly how many billions they will make. According to Berrigan’s article:
“Last November, Richard Skinner, the inspector general of DHS told lawmakers that estimates for this advanced surveillance network are all over the map: from the low end of $2 billion to a high of between $8 billion to $30 billion.”
To read the entire article, click here: Militarizing the Border
