JE #3B

The title of the article is the War on the Border but what I got from is the focus on taxpayers money going towards militarization. I have issues with the article itself, it was too euphemistic. I can tell that this article is geared towards an audience with the privilege of documentation and live near the border. The article made it seem as if the War on the Border was solely between citizens living the US side and the border patrol. I mean, he talks about where taxpayer money is going as if that is the only problem with the border. When I see the title of War on the border I expect more. I expect the article not only to talk about how we are funding the militarization of the border but how we are killing people, how we contribute to death, exploitation, abuse, a genocide, a femicide. For me, the title was inappropriate.

 Also, he says the border “has become” a militarized zone. The context he sees it in is the influx of Border Patrol and technology after 9/11. He failed to recognize that the border has been in the process of militarization since before the actual border. It has been in the process of militarization since the presence of the Texas Rangers. Veterans of the confederacy after the civil war were employed as Texas Rangers. So the militarization is the natural order of the border and I can argue that is when the war had begun. Only, after the US-Mexico war there has been a consistent state of Low intestity warefare!

The article does not mention the deaths that have occurred and occur weekly at the border. The author does not mention the construction of the border is killing people. The US government knew immigration would not stop with the construction of the border but instead they are trying to make it so difficult that it is deadly!

They are funneling people into a death trap.

The article title is a misnomer and does not cover half of the story of the War at the border.