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SOLOMON HUGHES explores the growth of a new security-industrial complex and its unique mixture of the sinister and the incompetent

Last month the newspapers had a brief flurry about an immigration computer "shambles."

Labour's Yvette Cooper accused Home Secretary Theresa May of presiding over a "catalogue of chaos" because the "e-borders" system didn't work.

E-borders is supposed to check people in and out of the country and pass on electronic messages to crimebusting officers.

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