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Blackwater’s Run for the Border?

By immigrationprof

Salon.com reports that Blackwater USA, the private security firm that came under intense scrutiny after its employees killed 17 civilians in Iraq in September, is considering entering the U.S. border security business. The company is poised to construct a major new training facility in California, just eight miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. Blackwater executives have lobbied the U.S. government since at least 2005 to help train and even deploy manpower for patrolling America’s borders. Blackwater is planning to build an 824-acre military-style training complex in Potrero, Calif., a rural hamlet 45 miles east of San Diego.

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