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Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Oct. 4, 2022 "For years, Border Patrol agents have trashed peoples’ documents and possessions at the border. But since the pandemic, the practice has escalated, further dehumanizing asylum seekers...

Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Aug. 16, 2022 “There’s really no reason for what they’re doing other than to strip people of their humanity.” Volunteers from the community and the county maintain these two dumpsters...

Todd Miller, The Border Chronicle, Aug. 11, 2022 " Have you ever wondered how the Border Patrol got so much power? How it can roll into places like Portland, Oregon, in unmarked vehicles and snatch protesters off the streets? Or why it is permitted...

Melissa del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, Aug. 9, 2022 "Every week, Joel Smith, a former Marine, drives into the desert to leave water for migrants trekking through the Devil’s Highway and other deadly corridors in the Sonoran Desert. Smith...

Josh Kelety, Associated Press, Aug. 3, 2022 "Lara Logan, a former Fox Nation host, recently claimed that U.S. Border Patrol agents are distributing Social Security numbers to immigrants at the border. A video of her comments has circulated widely...

...for Jenn Budd's book, Against The Wall: My Journey from Border Patrol Agent to Immigrant Rights Activist (Heliotrope Books, 2022). I thought I knew the border. I thought I knew human nature. But Jenn Budd's compassionate, fearless honesty floored...

Anna Flagg, Julia Preston, June 16, 2022 "In cells built for adults, one-third are child migrants. Border authorities have resisted improving conditions for minors in crowded, freezing facilities."

Melissa Del Bosque, The Border Chronicle, May 24, 2022 "Budd's new book "Against the Wall" takes an unflinching look at the systemic misogyny and racism in the Border Patrol, and overcoming a childhood of trauma and abuse."

Melissa del Bosque, Border Chronicle, May 3, 2022 "In Arizona and Texas, border residents are noticing more and more personal belongings discarded along the U.S. side of the border wall. They include passports, birth certificates, police reports...

GAO, Apr. 20, 2022 "Border Patrol has not collected and recorded, or reported to Congress, complete data on migrant deaths, or disclosed associated data limitations. Specifically, Border Patrol’s fiscal year 2020 report to Congress did not...

DHS, Feb. 1, 2022 (What could possibly go wrong?)

NIPNLG letter, Oct. 5, 2021 "We write on behalf of No More Deaths (“NMD”) in response to Border Patrol’s pattern of surveillance, harassment, and raids against NMD aid stations and volunteers. Border Patrol’s actions threaten...

Derek Brouwer, Vermont Seven Days, Sept. 24, 2021 "Border patrol officers can search Vermonters' cars without a warrant under their special federal authority to conduct "roving" patrols within 100 miles of the U.S. border. But, as...

Robert Moore, El Paso Matters, Sept. 17, 2021 "A new report details “deeply troubling failures” by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in the 2019 death of a Guatemalan boy in the agency’s custody, including the creation of false...

NWIRP, Apr. 29, 2021 "The United States has agreed to pay two men $35,000 each in settlements after they were wrongfully detained and interrogated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in separate incidents at the Intermodal Center, a bus...