Soldiers and razor-sharp metal at the Mexico-Texas border don't deter migrants who traveled months to get there, as numbers of those fleeing to the U.S. soar.

A separate order for $218,124 for the purchase of a high-speed barbed wire machine was placed with Bergandi the same day, records show. Bergandi, bills itself as "a worldwide leader in designing ...

THE POINT: As it was when western lands were dominated and wrenched from Native Americans’ hands, the cruelty is the point. There’s a reason Native Americans called barbed wire the “devil ...