Counter Punch Article Rating9/11's Border Legacy: Razor Wire, "Smart" Surveillance, and Billions in Security Contracts
Sep 14, 2021 View Original Article
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| "CBP hired PR firms to cultivate a new post-9/11 brand." | Positive | 36% Conservative |
| "Mayorkas is just the latest in a long line of DHS and CBP top leaders who have passed through the revolving door of private industry and government." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "Anduril Industries' sentry towers and ghost drones are just one of $2.4 billion and $1.6 billion worth in contracts doled out to CBP and ICE, respectively, from Biden's inaugural month to the 20th aiversary of 9/11." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "When I first began reporting on this burgeoning border industry in 2012, the combined budgets of CBP and ICE ($18 billion) were already larger than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined, including the FBI, the DEA, the Secret Service, and the U.S. Marshals Service." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "From 2008 to the present, at least 108,214 contracts have been doled out by CBP and ICE worth a whopping $59.5 billion." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "The smartphone has met the border wall." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "The idea was that by building walls, doubling the Border Patrol, and reinforcing it with technology in border cities like Nogales, El Paso, and San Diego, people would be forced to cross into more deadly and dangerous areas, like the Arizona desert." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "For Biden that means high-tech capacity." | Positive | 30% Conservative |
| "In January, Alejandro Mayorkas was sworn in as the Biden administration's secretary of Homeland Security and lauded as the first Latino to hold that position." | Positive | 26% Conservative |
| "In January, Alejandro Mayorkas was sworn in as the Biden administration's secretary of Homeland Security and lauded as the first Latino to hold that position." | Positive | 26% Conservative |
| "Anduril Industries' sentry towers and ghost drones are just one of $2.4 billion and $1.6 billion worth in contracts doled out to CBP and ICE, respectively, from Biden's inaugural month to the 20th aiversary of 9/11." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "In total these companies contributed $5,364,994 to Biden and $1,731,435 to Trump." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "In total these companies contributed $5,364,994 to Biden and $1,731,435 to Trump." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "For example, in a report titled Biden's Border: The Industry, the Democrats and the 2020 Elections,which I coauthored with Nick Buxton for the Transnational Institute in February, we found that Northrop Grumman gave $649,748 to the Biden campaign, nearly double the amount it gave to Trump, which followed the company's general trend favoring Democrats 56 to 44 percent in 2020." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "For example, in a report titled Biden's Border: The Industry, the Democrats and the 2020 Elections,which I coauthored with Nick Buxton for the Transnational Institute in February, we found that Northrop Grumman gave $649,748 to the Biden campaign, nearly double the amount it gave to Trump, which followed the company's general trend favoring Democrats 56 to 44 percent in 2020." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "If the Biden administration wants to craft a humane response to the border, it will have to come to terms with one of the biggest impediments to making that happen, that is, 9/11's most palpable legacy in the borderlands, a lucrative border security industry." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The personal coection to Mayorkas's income notwithstanding, the defense industry behemoth Northrop Grumman also made its overtures to the Biden administration in other ways." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "And the construction of this system has been going on for nearly three decades, since the mid-1990s, during the Bill Clinton administration, which first established the prevention through deterrence doctrine." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The list is long and includes former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff (under Bush, 2005-9), who now runs his own private security consultancy Chertoff group, and former secretary Jeh Johnson (under Obama, 2013-17), who is on the board of the defense-industry giant and top border contractor Lockheed Martin." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "The list is long and includes former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff (under Bush, 2005-9), who now runs his own private security consultancy Chertoff group, and former secretary Jeh Johnson (under Obama, 2013-17), who is on the board of the defense-industry giant and top border contractor Lockheed Martin." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Biden has pledged to build not another foot of wall." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
68% : CBP hired PR firms to cultivate a new post-9/11 brand.62% : Mayorkas is just the latest in a long line of DHS and CBP top leaders who have passed through the revolving door of private industry and government.
61% : Anduril Industries' sentry towers and ghost drones are just one of $2.4 billion and $1.6 billion worth in contracts doled out to CBP and ICE, respectively, from Biden's inaugural month to the 20th anniversary of 9/11.
57% : When I first began reporting on this burgeoning border industry in 2012, the combined budgets of CBP and ICE ($18 billion) were already larger than all other federal law enforcement agencies combined, including the FBI, the DEA, the Secret Service, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
55% : From 2008 to the present, at least 108,214 contracts have been doled out by CBP and ICE worth a whopping $59.5 billion.
50% : " The smartphone has met the border wall.
39% : The idea was that by building walls, doubling the Border Patrol, and reinforcing it with technology in border cities like Nogales, El Paso, and San Diego, people would be forced to cross into more deadly and dangerous areas, like the Arizona desert.
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