Peeling Back the Corruption at Homeland Security

Garrett Graff: “We’ve spent so much of the last six months focused on the lived American experience of the supercharged secret police regime of ICE and CBP that we’ve mostly overlooked how much money is flooding into all aspects of border security. Just before Noem stepped down, I wrote a new piece for the New Yorker about the giant procurement budget of Customs and Border Protection. Even as someone who follows all of this closely, I was astounded by what I found digging through the government contracting databases…”

“There’s no way that a government agency can responsibly scale from spending three-billion a year to spending twenty times that — and there’s plenty of reason to doubt that CBP is currently spending that money wisely or in any that will deliver real value for the taxpayer.”