The Many Scandals of the Border Industrial Complex

As election campaigns heat up, the true state of the border is revealed in record budgets, record contracts, increased border deaths, and the barring of press from the Border Security Expo in El Paso.

In the exhibition hall of the Border Security Expo. (Photo by Todd Miller)

All eyes were on Border Patrol chief Jason Owens when he took the stage on May 21 to deliver the keynote at the Border Security Expo—the premier annual event that brings border officials together with the private sector—in a conference room at the El Paso Convention Center. He was…