My camera shoots fascistsApr 24, 2025

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

bsmall2Feb 6, 2025
> ... 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
Show threadMy camera shoots fascistsJan 26, 2025

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

Show threadMy camera shoots fascistsDec 30, 2024

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

Show threadVictoria Stuart πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈSep 7, 2023

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

Texas can keep buoys in the Rio Grande while legal challenge continues, federal appeals court rules

Nearly three months after Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the deployment of the 1,000-foot line of buoys and mesh in the Rio Grande, an Austin federal judge ordered the state to remove the barrier and stop building further obstructions in the river. One day later a higher court sided with Texas.

The Texas Tribune