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Jenn Budd
Former Senior Patrol Agent turned immigration rights and Border Patrol accountability activist.
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When mass deportation becomes a training operation.
The more I watch the federal agencies work together, the more I realize the mass deportation is a training exercise.
Mar 20


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


Changing the Border Narrative
Much of the public discussion of our southern border today is one-sided. It is most often created by those with the most power and the...
May 17, 2021
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