see url:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/19/a-lucrative-border-industrial-complex-keeps-the-us-border-in-constant-crisis
see full report...The Border Lobby is big business...and the deaths of
immigrants are high...over 8,000 human remains found in the borderlands
with actual deaths a lot higher...
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In 1994, the US’s annual border and immigration budget was $1.5bn. In
2020, the budget exceeded $25bn - a 16-fold increase.
Another way to look at the scope of this money juggernaut are the
105,000 contracts, totaling $55bn, that CBP and Ice have given private
industry – including Northrop Grumman, General Atomics, G4S, Deloitte
and Core Civic, among others – to develop the border and immigration
enforcement apparatus. That is worth more than the total cumulative
number of border and immigration budgets from 1975 to 2003. That’s 28
years combined amounting to $52bn. The companies can also give campaign
contributions to key politicians and lobby during budget debates. And so
we have the formula of a perpetual “border crisis”: the bigger the
crisis, the more need for border infrastructure, generating more revenue.
One result? Since the 1990s, nearly 8,000 human remains have been found
in the US borderlands. The number of actual deaths is almost certainly
much higher. Families of migrants continued to search for lost loved ones.
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