The Border: 8th Border Security Conference examines benefits and dangers along the U.S.-Mexico borderline

Borderzine is a jounalism project of the University of Texas at El Paso designed to promote the developement of Latino journalist. Unfortunately, this article, reporting the 8th annual Border Security Conference, is absolutely uncritical of the propaganda that was presented by both U.S. and Mexican government officials featured at the conference. We would hope that Borderzine would be more than a mouthpiece for the drug warriors who pull Mexico and the U.S. deeper and deeper into the destruction of a “war on drugs” or the newly minted “battle against transnational criminal organizations.” Their blind adherence to such policies is based on the delusion that state power can control drug consumption and the market that inevitably arises to supply those drugs. Such insanity is doomed to fail and only produce more destruction of Mexico’s and the U.S’s civil society.


Borderzine: Under the umbrella ideal of fostering a new era of bi-national collaboration between the U.S. and Mexico, the University of Texas at El Paso was once again home to the annual Border Security Conference.

This two-day event marked the 8th straight year public officials, politicians, scholars and the general public gathered to share concerns, progress, and ideas pertaining to border security and how the border should meet 21st. century challenges.

The conference was a joint endeavor of the University and the Office of U.S. Representative Silvestre Reyes (D.,Texas).

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