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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


Trump and Border Patrol lied about not knowing who was in the caravans.
In the last eight years, the US government has witnessed border crisis after border crisis. Each built upon the last with different...
May 17, 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


Media Failing in Another Border Crisis
Everywhere I look, I see headline after headline claiming that Border Patrol agents are overwhelmed by migrants crossing the border. I...
Dec 23, 2023


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


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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