Censored at the border: Children in prisons, soldiers running cocaine

Censored at the border: Children in prison, soldiers running cocaine
By Brenda Norrell
http://www.infoshop.org/
Monday, August 06 2007 @ 05:15 PM

ARIVACA, Ariz. -- While Arizona border residents prepare to file a lawsuit to halt the spy tower cameras aimed at their homes along the US border, another staggering human rights violation is ongoing in Texas.

Migrant and refugee children are being imprisoned in Texas prisons, resulting in an ACLU lawsuit. A prison guard has now exposed maggots in the Hutto prison food, where babies and children are imprisoned near Austin.


The ongoing border hype, fueled by television news, has invigorated

Minutemen, Border Guardians and the Ku Klux Klan along the US/Mexico border.

Few national news reporters have covered the ongoing federal court sentencing of the National Guardsmen running cocaine from the Arizona border at Nogales, running it north to Tucson and Phoenix.So many Arizona Guardsmen wanted to run cocaine, that the FBI sting "Operation Lively Green" was shut down.

A Nogales policeman, Arizona prison guard and Airforce Security Squadron in Tucson were among the 99 soldiers and officials charged with running drugs from the border.

While governors and other politicians are cheerleading for military at the border, residents want the military out and the harassment and abuses at the border to stop.

Further, few news reporters have reported the fact that the remains of O'odham ancestors, Hohokam, were recently dug up for the border barrier and have not been reburied.

Congress continues to press for dangerous drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) for the border, ignoring the fact that the Border Patrol stopped using those in Arizona when a multi-million drone crashed near Nogales.

Television news, including some programs on CNN, have fueled the racism and xenophobia, resulting in the imprisonment of children in prisons in Texas and policies forcing migrants deeper into the desert to die in Arizona.Ultimately, Bush-friendly corporations are the ones who profiteer and benefit from the Nazi-like wave of border hysteria.

Those corporations include Halliburton's contract for migrant prisons, Wackenhut (now Geo Group) transporting migrants; Pinkerton guards and the Boeing/Israeli spy team constructing border spy towers with cameras aimed at residents in Arizona.

Read more on the Censored blog:http://www.bsnorrell.blogspot.com/
Brenda Norrell has been a news reporter in Indian country for 25 years. After being terminated in 2006, after complaining of censorship, she began the Censored blog to expose the most censored issues.

Photo 1: Amnesty Photo 2: ACLU Photo 3: Sebastian Quinac, Mayan Cakchiquel from Guatemala, marched for migrants rights on May 1. Behind him Border Guardians hurl racial slurs and obscenities in Tucson. Photo Brenda Norrell