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Now, welcome to the award winning BessofaLath podcast with Cups Today from Brave New Films,

The Young Turks on the media, the Majority Report, the David Pakman Show, the Meeting Matters Minute,

Counter-Spin, Mumiobu Jamal, and Truth Dig Radio.

And a refresher on the old adage, when in doubt, don'ts and children to violence ravaged countries

where they may very likely be raped or murdered.

The border surge, border surge, border surge, border surge, border surge, border surge,

Last year, the government spent $18 billion on border and immigration enforcement,

more than the budget of every other federal agency combined.

The militarization of the U.S. border has added thousands of border patrol agents,

deployed manned aircraft and drones, established military-style bases and surveillance towers,

and built hundreds of miles of border fencing for a total cost of $90 billion.

At a cost of about $4 million per mile, customs and border protection had spent almost $3 billion

building a fencing on the border.

That's about a $50 billion estimated maintenance cost, which includes paying for screw-ups,

like the $21 million fence in Lucville, Arizona.

It collapsed after causing major flooding.

The repair cost was $24 million.

Customs and border protectionists had three failed attempts at building a virtual fence

using super-expensive state-of-the-art technologies like thermal cameras and sensors.

SBINet was a multi-billion dollar effort led by Boeing to build an allegedly all-seeing,

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