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Jenn Budd
Former Senior Patrol Agent turned immigration rights and Border Patrol accountability activist.
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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.
Mar 25


We are a fascist country.
We are a fascist country; a country unwilling to learn from its racism, doomed to constantly repeat its racist history.
Mar 13


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


Judges across southern border are letting adjudicated violent Border Patrol agents loose in our communities.
Judges from California to Texas are letting violent Border Patrol agents loose in our communities and hiding it.
Feb 13

No, cartel spiking Border Patrol tires is not new.
They know this because they have killed hundreds with their own spike strips. None of this is new.
Feb 3


We are all that little girl in the blue dress, until we aren't.
Efren Lopez Cornejo will be able to sexually assault nine year old girls in blue dresses again thanks to Judge McGinley.
Jan 17


Why Border Patrol Agents won't stop running over people.
I’ve seen too many videos of my fellow agents doing horrible things to be shocked anymore. Yet, the San Diego video disturbed me.
Jan 12


Accomplishments of a Memoir
"Against the Wall" was also responsible for exposing the illegal and secret Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams used by the agency to hide
Dec 31, 2024


When the Department of Homeland Security supports the insurrection candidate.
This is a discussion that our congressional leaders and press are unwilling to have.
Dec 17, 2024


Humane Borders
Contrary to popular belief, agents are not taught in the Border Patrol academy to destroy water and food left on trails for migrants.
Dec 11, 2024


Border Patrol agents committing crimes.
Border Patrol agents are committing more crimes than the people they arrest
Oct 24, 2024

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


Beginning to change the Border Patrol, CBP and DHS rape culture.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) currently offers a unique opportunity for those professionals and scholars of sexual crimes.
Sep 24, 2024


Border Patrol Critical Incident Team & the Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez killing: Trained to obstruct justice.
The illegal and secret CIT unit did its job and obstructed justice by contaminating everything it touched, and continues on today under CBP.
Aug 5, 2024


Border Patrol Agent Sex Crimes Spreadsheet
The following is a spreadsheet created from years of my research.
May 19, 2024


My Involvement with Exposing the Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams
In order to document my work on exposing the Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams and to push back on the recent joke of a report by the...
May 19, 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


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.
This piece is a follow up to "Border Patrol Agent and El Centro Union President Arrested and Charged with Violent Felonies Allowed to...
May 6, 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


Border Patrol Agent and El Centro Union President Arrested and Charged with Violent Felonies Allowed to Plea to Lesser Charges.
On April 23, 2024, Senior Border Patrol Agent Michael Roland Matzke will be allowed to plea to misdemeanor charges instead being tried by...
Apr 9, 2024
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