Can someone explain to me WHY: Drones, fences, radar: military 'surge' for US-Mexico border

[dixiegrrrrl]

What is real reason for so much $$$$ and resources being spent to lock down the border with Mexico????

I cannot believe that so many people from So. American want to sneak into our failed state...
There has to be something else going on.

Twenty thousand new border patrol agents, hundreds of miles of fencing, billions of dollars in drones, radar and sensors: US lawmakers are proposing a militaristic remedy to staunch illegal immigrant flow from Mexico.

The Senate is expected Monday to green-light the most important amendment yet to the landmark immigration bill, but the measure -- designed to placate Republican concerns about security -- would ensure that the border region is one of the most highly policed zones in the Western Hemisphere.

Critics call the plan "border security on steroids," while even the amendment's Republican author concedes the measures to clamp down on illegal crossings might be "overkill."
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130624/drones-fences-radar-military-surge-us-mexico-border

[HooptieWagon]

1. NAFTA.

Capital being able to relocate for best deal is good. Labor being able to relocate for best deal is bad.


Free Trade is only freedom for capitalists. Labor doesn't have the same freedom to relocate.

[scarletwoman]

2. Because it will put lots more money in the hands of private contractors.

And those grateful private contractors will in turn generously fund election campaigns for their benefactors, as well as provide well-renumerated employment for them once they leave the public sector.

[hobbit709]

3. The Hispanics are coming. Run in circles, scream and shout!

Hide under the bed and PANIC, PANIC, PANIC.

[dgibby]

4. Maybe it's not to keep them out.

Maybe it's to keep us in. At the rate things are going, nobody's going to want to live here anymore, but we're the only ones paying taxes, so they'll have to keep us here.

[roody]

5. Money. Who is making lots of money

from this?