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The latest trinational news.Friday, July 25, 2008
Symbolic Politics and U.S. Border Enforcement.
Huffington Post, July 25, 2008 - “Last week, Secretary Michael Chertoff testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, hailing his Department’s efforts in securing the “homeland” by essentially militarizing and building a 335-mile barricade along the U.S.-Mexico border. Many of the declared achievements that Chertoff noted are associated with Operation Jump Start, a joint program by the Border Patrol and Department of Defense that deployed 6,000 National Guard troops to assist with surveillance operations and fence construction. Shortly after the two-year anniversary of its inception, Operation Jump Start is coming to an end. Meanwhile, its ‘raging success’ tenuously dangles on Chertoff’s misleading ‘metrics of success.’” Read more.
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