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Jenn Budd
Former Senior Patrol Agent turned immigration rights and Border Patrol accountability activist.
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My Border Patrol Records
For quite some time, I and a journalist have been trying to get my Border Patrol records. It took 2 years and a Freedom of Information...
Mar 6, 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


How an American citizen died in Border Patrol custody and the case was never investigated.
This is the second article in my series about the illegal and unauthorized coverup teams known as Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams....
Feb 19, 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


Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams
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. This...
Jan 8, 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


Border Patrol Stats Show Agents Commit Crimes More Than the Migrants They Arrest
I first arrived at Campo Border Patrol Station in November 1995, the station was still using hand written carbon copies for processing...
Dec 19, 2023


Attending a Mass Burial Ceremony in the US
Yes, we have mass burial ceremonies here in the United States. If you are an average American, you likely will find this strange. Most US...
Dec 1, 2023


The Argument of Who Seizes more Narcotics: Border Patrol or CBP.
Quite frequently, the US Border Patrol's Union (National Border Patrol Council) argues that their agents are seizing more narcotics than...
Nov 28, 2023


Do I Hate Border Patrol Agents?
"I am worried about you," he said. "I believe you are so angry about what happened to you in the Border Patrol when you were raped that...
Nov 12, 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


Rodeo, New Mexico: A town under siege by reckless Border Patrol pursuits.
On March 23, 2023, a vehicle suspected of smuggling migrants was spiked by Lordsburg, New Mexico Border Patrol agents according to the...
Apr 17, 2023

Border Patrol Agent Shoots U.S. Citizen Point Blank
On March 14, 2023, the U.S. Border Patrol pursued a vehicle that agents suspected of smuggling undocumented persons. When the pursuit...
Apr 14, 2023


How Breitbart Helped Cause a Port Shutdown
Even before Joe Biden won the presidency, anti-immigrant right-wing media group Breitbart was on the Border Patrol beat. They have...
Apr 12, 2023


SCOTUS May Put Bad CBP Agents Back in Uniform
To read the various media reports about the U.S. Supreme Court hearing the 5th Circuit Appeals case of U.S. vs Rahimi that recently...
Apr 7, 2023


Sundown McAllen
I love small border towns. There is a unique community of shared cultures and experiences that exists on both sides. My time as an Border...
Mar 30, 2023

Border Patrol Agent Suicides
I guess you could say that I am somewhat of an expert on Border Patrol agent suicides. I have lost many a good friend in the agency to...
Dec 15, 2022


Biden Administration's Intended Coverup of the BPCITs
I was 50 years old when I learned that the Alamo was not fought over Texas independence but over slavery. I am a college educated woman,...
Oct 25, 2022

OPR Once Again Covers Up Border Patrol Misconduct in Horse Patrol Investigation
While Customs and Border Protection's (CBP) Commissioner Chris Magnus would like Americans to know that he is dedicated to transparency...
Jul 17, 2022


Dona Taide
Dona Taide and husband Jose at their grandson's memorial. Photo taken by John Kurc. I first saw her in 2019 in Washington D.C. To those...
Aug 29, 2021
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