The (privatized) military- (foreign) industrial complex at the border

The “Hitler comparison” should be shouted from the rooftops, as should the Goebbels comparison, the Himmler comparison, the Mengele, Stalin, Torquemada, Beelzebub comparisons and all the rest. If it struts like a Nazi, talks like Nazi, tortures like a Nazi and wages aggressive and illegal war like a Nazi… it’s not a duck.

(The Agonist)

They forgot the Benito Mussolini comparison (“War is the health of the state”) and the Fritz von Thyssen comparison.

What the hell is this — RENT-A-StormTroopers for the border?

There are signs that Blackwater USA, the private
security firm that came under intense scrutiny after
its employees killed 17 civilians in Iraq in September,
is positioning itself for direct involvement in U.S.
border security. The company is poised to construct a
major new training facility in California, just eight
miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. While contracts for
U.S. war efforts overseas may no longer be a growth
industry for the company, Blackwater executives have
lobbied the U.S. government since at least 2005 to help
train and even deploy manpower for patrolling America’s
borders. 

And, in defense of Mussolini and Thyssen, at least they were supporting their own national economies.  Not us…

Elbit Systems, an Israeli defense contractor working on the Apartheid Wall in Palestine, was subcontracted by Boeing to provide security systems for the spy towers at the Arizona/Mexico border. Those nine spy towers located on Tohono O’odham tribal land and around the towns of Arivaca and Sasabe, still aren’t functioning.

 

… Further, the buses waiting to deport migrants at the US/Mexico border are not owned by a US company either. Wackenhut Transportation, whose drivers deport migrants, is owned by G4S global security, traded on the stock exchanges in England and Denmark.
With all the jargon in Washington about “securing the nation’s borders” against foreigners, you would think those corporations carrying out border security and deportation would be US companies.