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Jenn Budd
Former Senior Patrol Agent turned immigration rights and Border Patrol accountability activist.
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The border is as open under Trump as it was under Biden.
The asylum system is essential to national security, because you cannot “close” the border.
Mar 11

Trump’s policies created the huge numbers that crossed during the Biden Administration
Donald Trump’s policies created the huge numbers that crossed during the Biden Administration’s first three years.
Sep 25, 2024


The only walls needed on the border are memorials.
When I was a junior agent in Campo, Californian, we did not a have a border wall. The 32 linear miles of southern border I patrolled from...
Apr 16, 2024


Exercising Resistance Muscles
At times when it feels futile, when I hear that President Biden who promised to bring humanity to the US asylum system chooses instead to...
Mar 6, 2024


Thirty Years of US Immigration Policy: Lazy Man's Genocide
Can Americans sleep at night knowing that we are intentionally doing this to migrant and asylum seeking families?
Feb 13, 2024

There is No National Security without Asylum
The Biden Administration has done a piss poor job of reminding Americans why a robust asylum system is essential for national security....
Dec 14, 2023


Why Media, Politicians & Border Patrol Got Title 42 End Wrong
Ever since President Biden was sworn into office three years ago, the Border Patrol Union, republicans, right-wing media, legacy media...
Jun 8, 2023

An Asylum System is Essential for National Security
In March of 2020, former President Trump enacted Title 42 under federal pandemic law with the stated intention that it would help prevent...
Oct 6, 2021


Biden's Latest Immigration Policy Breaks the Law
Photo by Adam Schultz It's understandable if you have not heard the latest cruel immigration policy in regard to Central American asylum...
Sep 2, 2021


A Refugee is a Refugee
Photo taken by Scott Nicol. McAllen, Texas. Like many Americans, I have spent the last couple of weeks listening and watching media about...
Aug 22, 2021

They are Still Separating Families
Las Americas in El Paso, Texas I recently spent ten days driving the southern border from San Diego, California to El Paso, Texas. I made...
Jul 16, 2021


There is No Asylum
Photo by John Kurc. Twitter @MoiDarwin I am always hopeful when I visit migrant shelters. When Linda Rivas, attorney for Las Americas in...
Jul 7, 2021
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