Two US Army APC's leaving the Ajo border patrol station headed south this morning. First I've seen of the military here near the border. These appeared to be Stryker M1127 Reconnaissance Vehicles based on my best Wikipedia guess.

I regretfully have to head north for a few months this morning or I would have followed them down and gotten some shots of them driving around doing nothing along the border wall.

Because there's literally nothing to do there. This is all a silly photo op and part of the larger performance of border theater. I even feel a little bad posting photos here because, in my own insignificant way, it plays to the narrative. I mean, if the army is there with all this hardware, then there must be a problem, right?

I hope these guys don't get too bored and start driving these things across the desert smashing over saguaro cactus the way the national guard did when they were here back around 2008.

#Border #Immigration #BorderTheater #BorderIndustrialComplex

US Border-Industrial Complex’s Bipartisan Boom
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/02/06/us-border-industrial-complexs-bipartisan-boom/
Joe Biden proactively helped build up Donald Trump’s deportation infrastructure and left office as the king of border contracts, writes Todd Miller. By Todd Miller TomDispatch.com It didn’t take long for the border and immigration enforcement industry to react to Donald…
#Politics #BidenAdministration #ClimateChange #Commentary #Immigration #Mexico #Pentagon #TrumpAdministration #U.s. #U.s.Congress #Bloomberg #BorderIndustrialComplex #ClassicAirCharter #Corecivic #DeployedResources #Deportations #ElbitSystems #GeneralDynamics #GeoGroup #LeeFang #PresidentBarackObama #ToddMiller #U.s.CustomsAndBorderProtection #U.s.ImmigrationAndCustomsEnforcement(ice)

> ... during President Biden’s four years in office, he gave 40 contracts worth more than $2 billion to the same GEO Group (and its associated companies) whose stocks spiked with Trump’s election. Under those contracts, the company was to maintain and expand the U.S. immigrant detention system, while providing ankle bracelets for monitoring people on house arrest.
https://tomdispatch.com/the-mass-deportation-handoff-biden-to-trump/
#ToddMiller at #TomDispatch #uspol #Immigration #BorderIndustrialComplex #PresidentBiden

A few more Muro Loco/Wall Crazy for the evening before I go to bed.

U.S. border fence from Mexico.

#MuroLoco #Border #Immigration #BorderTheater #BorderIndustrialComplex

For anyone who is familiar with a stretch of Arizona along the border, south of Atascosa Peak and the Pajarita Mountains, you're probably familiar with Sycamore Canyon. From the end of the border wall, you can hike the gaping bulldozer scar up and over the ridge and down to Sycamore Canyon, where Biden stopped (new) construction.

The descent is long, steep, loose and rocky. The worst part of the whole hike. I discovered is that the easiest way to get fairly deep into this area is to follow Sycamore Canyon south into Mexico and then turn back east toward the U.S. on the first side drainage

It's not named on the map, but it's a typical southern Arizona oak and boulder filled canyon. There's still water in some of the deep holes in the stream bed where there are upwelling springs.

In the photo, the new border wall will go on the slope right above the spot to the right.

#BorderWall #Border #Immigration #Border #BorderIndustrialComplex

#USpolitics #Immigration #Border

'Part of the root of the problem. It's a [tax payer] money mill. #BorderIndustrialComplex
It's about aid not militarized police and gaurds.'

"The Truth About the U.S. Border | Robert Reich" [4:58 min]
by Robert Reich

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PwU-TmwPSM

Quote by RR:
"Jun 15, 2021 #immigration #wall #border
The full story about immigration you aren't getting from politicians and the media.
Watch More: The Military-Industrial Drain ►► • The Military-Industrial Drain | Rober...
A desperate combination of factors are driving migrants and asylum seekers to our southern border, from Central America in particular: deep economic inequality, corruption, and high rates of poverty, as well as violence and instability tied to historic U.S. support for brutal authoritarian regimes, right-wing paramilitary groups, and corporate interests in Latin America.
In other words, the United States is very much part of the root of this problem.
Some politicians want you to believe the way to address this humanitarian tragedy is to double down on border security and build walls to deter people from coming. They’re wrong.
Several administrations have tried this approach. It's failed every time. Our bloated spending on the border-industrial complex has done nothing but increase human suffering without dealing with the root causes of migration.
It’s not enough to roll back the cruel and xenophobic policies of our past. This new generation must be treated in ways that are consistent with our most cherished ideals.
Now is the time to act.

#VoteBlue #UpAndDownTheBallot #ImWithHer

Addendum 4

Federal judge orders Texas to remove floating border barrier. Abbott immediately appeals ruling
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/09/06/texas-border-floating-barrier-buoys-federal-judge-ruling

* Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) ordered deployment of 1,000-foot line of buoys & mesh in Rio Grande
* 3 months later Austin federal judge ordered Texas to remove barrier & stop building further obstructions in Rio Grande

#BorderIndustrialComplex #IndustrialComplex #Texas #GregAbbott #GOP #neofascism #migrants #MassMigration #HumanRights #RioGrande #HumanRights