Whack-a-mole and Immigration Madness: At War In Texas

Here the theme of "whack-a-mole," "secure the border" militarization - as a  response to the perceived threat of the Mexican drug war "spilliing over" into U.S. border states - gets merged with the theme of immigration madness that perceives an invasion of "illegal aliens." The article is a detailed and scary description of how Texas sheriffs and politicians are allied in waging their own version of war at the border, using mostly federal funds which are supplied in increasing abundance by the Obama administration in order to placate the locals. 


At War In Texas - Boston Review — Tom Barry: "Nowhere has the post-9/11 border-security framework been so enthusiastically adopted—and adapted—as in Texas, where local law enforcement, the state political leadership, and a contingent of the congressional delegation have taken border security into their own hands, albeit largely with federal funding." Sept/Oct. issue, Boston Review, which describes itself as, "a nonpartisan magazine of ideas: animated by hope, committed to equality and reason, convinced that the imagination eludes political categories."