Borderland Talk Overcoming American Exceptionalism and Moral Injury How to spot American propaganda, overcome it and be free.
Borderland Talk How a judge & assistant district attorney gave a senior Border Patrol agent back his gun & badge after he pled guilty to domestic violence crimes in Imperial Valley, CA. Was he aware that the only reason he was sitting on this side was because he had a badge and likely some money for a decent attorney? He was the president of the El Centro Sector Union until his arrest.
Border Patrol Agent and El Centro Union President Arrested and Charged with Violent Felonies Allowed to Plea to Lesser Charges. From April 2024. Example of how judges let Border Patrol agents get away with violent crimes.
Borderland Talk When it comes to internal investigations, Border Patrol has an inside guy. In 2019, Daniel Altman became head of CBP and Border Patrol’s internal investigation unit. For six years, he covered up agent crimes from murders to sexual misconduct.
Borderland Talk Ideas on how to protest against ICE’s state sponsored violence. My thoughts on the question most asked by my readers: How do we resist or protest the state sponsored violence of forced disappearances?
Borderland Talk How ICE’s forced disappearances are state sponsored terrorism and have created a national police force. Uniforms, no uniforms, many different badges, some without badges…this is intentional, and it is state sponsored terrorism.
Borderland Talk How Border Patrol Agents Get Away with Murder Knowing that this system is designed by those leading these agencies in response to agents killing and maiming victims, I don't think it is going to far to say that our government is supporting and covering up state sanctioned violence.
Borderland Talk The ways Border Patrol hides its rape culture. All posts in this newsletter come with a CONTENT WARNING for sexual violence. Originally published May 2021.
Borderland Talk Are those really ICE agents? Questions abound about the true identity of the immigrant kidnappers. Is it ICE or militia or January 6 insurrectionists pardoned by Trump as many in social media are claiming?
Borderland Talk I can speak about my own rape, Senator Wyden. Twenty years after my hazing, my rape was being used without my permission, without my knowledge to try and take down former Chief Scott. I wanted to vomit.
Borderland Talk Court transcripts of Chief Rodney Scott’s public rape threat against me. CONTENT WARNING: The following involves violent sexual crimes committed by Border Patrol agents. As Chief Scott waits to hear about his confirmation, Senator Wyden has invoked my rape at the Border Patrol Academy while not using my name. Chief Scott testified before Congress today that he apologized to me, my
Borderland Talk Six months into fiscal Year 2025 and 121 CBP agents have been arrested for crimes they deport migrants for. According to CBP’s own stats, over twenty employees are arrested each month for crimes ranging from minor traffic violations to serious violent felonies.
Borderland Talk Yep, that secret Border Patrol FB group is typical agent behavior. This is the agency that had an officer arrested and convicted for being a serial killer. This is the agency that has multiple agents arrested for rape, pedophilia and possession of child porn every single year.
Borderland Talk “Do they take babies away from their mothers here in the United States?” I lied because I didn’t want to ruin that most joyous time a mother should have with her newborn baby. I didn’t want to tell her that we, this country of mostly immigrants, do take children away from their parents.
Borderland Talk I used to detain migrants at the border. Now I try and help them. When I look back, I don’t understand how I stayed. It took effort. I had to have willfully forgotten my core values.
Borderland Talk Our border policies are as dangerous to migrants as smugglers. I cannot help but wonder if they had a humane and orderly process at the ports of entry like other countries do, would that family with a baby have tried to cross the river? Would that baby still be alive? These questions are worth asking.
Borderland Talk Our Southern Border and Illegal Crossings Essentially, the problem we have today is that as demand for asylum went up, the federal government was not willing to increase nor build an asylum system that addressed that need.
Borderland Talk What Tucson is seeing today and what to expect from law enforcement The following is a lecture given at the Tucson Desert Art Museum on the current state of Tucson mass deportations and what is to come.
Border Patrol Agent Sex Crimes Spreadsheet Originally published June 2024, the spreadsheet has been updated to March 2025.
The only walls needed on the border are memorials. We knew when we pushed migrants to the dangerous areas that many would die and be seriously injured. It was part of deterrence. This article was originally published on JennBudd.com on April 17, 2024.
Rodeo, New Mexico: A town under siege by reckless Border Patrol pursuits. Originally published April 17, 2023. This is an expert analysis of a dangerous Border Patrol pursuit to check someone’s documents.
Trump and Border Patrol lied about not knowing who was in the caravans. This piece was originally posted on JennBudd.com on May 17, 2024. It discusses how Trump took years of a controlled southern border and turned it into chaos by lying about caravans.
Border Patrol agents are committing more crimes than the people they arrest. Since 2018, Border patrol agents as a population have committed more crimes than the migrants they arrest.
