Borderland Talk How immigration agents are trained to determine citizenship. It is as bad as you think.
Borderland Talk How 9/11 enabled a police state under our noses. After 9/11, we gave law enforcement our trust. They created an authoritarian police state corrupted by conmen and hired many criminals as agents. It is past time to clean house.
Borderland Talk Protecting our neighbors from ICE. Thoughts on ways to help protect your neighborhoods and neighbors.
Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams Carmelo Cruz Marcos Killing The Cruz Marcos case is the last killing the Border Patrol Tucson Critical Incident Team covered up before being legalized within CBP.
Borderland Talk What kind of people are hired for immigration enforcement? Criminals, extremists and right-wing ideologies make up your immigration enforcement agencies.
Borderland Talk Attending a mass grave ceremony for migrants in the US Citizenship no longer matters to me in life. It certainly does not matter to me in death.
Borderland Talk It is the federal agents who are the violent criminals. Federal agents claim they are protecting Americans from terrorism, but they are actually instigating it.
Borderland Talk White women, please stand up, please stand up! Have you ever wondered what to do when a fascist regime takes over your country? This is your assignment white women.
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.
Borderland Talk 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.
Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams 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.
Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams 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.
Border Patrol Rape Culture 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?
Border Patrol Rape Culture 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.
Border Patrol Rape Culture 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.
Border Patrol Rape Culture 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.
