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 Rape Culture Border Patrol Agent Sex Crimes Spreadsheet Originally published June 2024, the spreadsheet has been updated to March 2025.
Borderland Talk 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.
Borderland Talk 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.
Borderland Talk 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.
Borderland Talk 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.
Borderland Talk When mass deportation becomes a training operation. This mass deportation is about much more.
Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams 101 This is the first of a series of articles to educate and expose the secret and illegal coverup teams used by the US Border Patrol.
Borderland Talk The border is as open under Trump as it was under Biden. A “closed border” does not mean people are not illegally crossing. It simply means the asylum system is closed.
Borderland Talk Judges across southern border are letting adjudicated violent Border Patrol agents loose in our communities. It is not enough that they have constant access to victims that they can then throw back into Mexico when they are done. Not enough that they have been running secret and illegal coverup teams since 1984 to get rid of the evidence of their crimes. It's not
Borderland Talk No, cartel spiking Border Patrol tires is not new. If you are one of many reporters writing about the US Border Patrol who doesn't know a damn thing about it, you might be thinking of writing a piece this week as others have done about the cartel using a "new tactic" of spiking Border Patrol
Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams Why Border Patrol Agents won't stop running over people. Originally published on jennbudd.com.
Borderland Talk Thirty Years of US Immigration Policy: Lazy Man's Genocide Whether in person or via Zoom, I have spent the last year in front of Chicano studies groups, church groups, law classes, humanitarian groups and so on giving this specific lecture.
Border Patrol Rape Culture We are all that little girl in the blue dress, until we aren't. Cross-posted from jennbudd.com.
