You’ve heard of war profiteering, and the Military-Industrial Complex. Now, there has arisen border profiteering, and the border-industrial complex.
You will notice in this article that the brother of Grover “Let’s Get All The Muslims To Vote Republican” Norquist has been approved as the CFO for the Homeland Security Department.
I take all this to mean that while there’s a lot of hype and hoopla and money-making around “securing the border,” nothing will actually be done to secure the border. Really, what are all these airborne drones and ground cameras going to tell us that the ground-level Border Patrol agents (i.e. the honest ones) and Minuteman Project volunteers (i.e. the ones not interested in hustling a quick buck) haven’t already witnessed?
I suspect this “high tech virtual border” nonsense is the sneaky mechanism by which all the open borders and pro-amnesty zealots can get away with the two-faced doublespeak of saying that they’re for “securing the border” during election season.
[...] The United States of America is not the only place where pandering politicians prescribe aerial drones as a copout for a racial problem. [...]