Todd Miller | The Border Fetish: The US Frontier as a Zone of Profit and Sacrifice
26 April 18 It's Live on the HomePage Now: Reader Supported News NO ONE IS DONATING AND WE'RE GETTING INTO TROUBLE - The last two days we have seen barely a trickle of donations, almost all very small. Predictably a financial storm is gathering. We do what we can to keep everyone up to date, but our readers must take an active role as well. We need some support and right now we are not getting it. / Marc Ash, Founder Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation! EXCERPTS: "....In 2011, for example, CBP granted the former Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root (a company known for its profiteering in Iraq) a three-year, $24.4 million contract for border wall maintenance. And you can multiply that so many times over since, year after year, bigger and bigger budgets have gone into border and immigration enforcement (and so into the pockets of such corporations) with little or no discussion. In 2018, the combined ...