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The border-Industrial complex – what will biden do?


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You’ve no doubt heard of the military-industrial complex, but have you heard of the boarder-industrial complex? Between 2008 and 2020, over $55 billion in your tax dollars (including $25B in Trump’s last year in office) have gone to large and small contractors transferring military technology (Lockheed-Martin and others), prison companies, and others for border fortification, according to Todd Miller, reporter for TomDispatch in his latest article “The Greater the Disaster, the Greater the Profits: The Boarder-Industrial Complex in the Post-Trump Era“.
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