TEXAS TRIBUNE: Security Company Offers Border Surveillance, Tax Deductible Service

It’s not a sales pitch heard too often in the Rio Grande Valley. Farmers and ranchers here ? used to haggling over the price of feed, irrigation rights and labor costs ? have a new, tax-deductible option for improving their businesses.

And the company offering it promises to take a bullet for its client.

International Security Agency, a private security firm with offices in Colorado and Houston, announced last week in McAllen that it has received the required licenses from the Texas Department of Public Safety to operate locally. Its mission is to stop cartel-style violence in the United States before it starts. The sales pitch combines patriotism, politics and security and fits well with the mythic ethos of the west: If the government cannot protect its citizens, it?s up to the individual.

Read the full story:‘Selling the High Price of Border Security