Border Patrol Archives

Border Patrol Holding 15,500 Unaccompanied Migrant Minors

Virginia IsaadMarch 23, 2021

by Virginia IsaadMarch 23, 202107067

President Joe Biden assumed office with the promise of making sweeping changes to the border crisis and about two months into his presidency little has changed. While this is undoubtedly a lengthy process the fact that it seems the situation...

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17 Immigrants Have Died in ICE Custody This Year

Virginia IsaadAugust 11, 2020August 11, 2020

by Virginia IsaadAugust 11, 2020August 11, 202003083

The 17th person has died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody making this year the deadliest since 2006 when 19 immigrants died. A total of eight people died in custody in 2019 so this year had been twice as...

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Border Patrol Agents Taser Undocumented Man in El Paso Burger King

Virginia IsaadFebruary 14, 2020July 22, 2020

by Virginia IsaadFebruary 14, 2020July 22, 202001977

A viral video showed U.S. Border Patrol agents tasering a man they suspected of human smuggling and now they’re addressing concerns of the agent’s use of excessive force through the use of stun guns. The encounter happened inside a Burger...

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Video Shows Border Patrol Neglected Guatemalan Teen Who Died in Their Custody

Virginia IsaadDecember 6, 2019July 7, 2020

by Virginia IsaadDecember 6, 2019July 7, 202001728

When 16-year-old Guatemalan immigrant Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez was diagnosed with the flu at the Border Patrol processing center in McAllen, Texas, he should have been properly cared for but instead, he was sent to a holding cell in nearby...

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Border Patrol Detains 3 U.S. Citizen Children Traveling to Mexico

Virginia IsaadJuly 19, 2019August 3, 2020

by Virginia IsaadJuly 19, 2019August 3, 202001396

Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents detained three young girls for about 13 hours at Chicago O’Hare International airport after traveling with a cousin from Mexico on Thursday. The girls, 9, 10 and 13, were detained around 3 a.m. Thursday...

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AOC Calls Out Head of Homeland Security About Border Agents’ ‘Rape Memes’

Pamela AvilaJuly 19, 2019February 18, 2021

by Pamela AvilaJuly 19, 2019February 18, 202103282

Just days after being publicly attacked by President Trump, Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez confronted the acting head of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan about his knowledge of a secret Facebook group creating photoshopped memes of her “violent rape” during a House Oversight...

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#ICEBae: A Latina Border Patrol Officer is Trending and People Aren’t Happy

Virginia IsaadJuly 16, 2019August 2, 2020

by Virginia IsaadJuly 16, 2019August 2, 202003220

Anyone logging into Twitter today would’ve seen #ICEBae trending and found the image of Customs and Border Patrol agent Kiara Cervantes working security during Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to the border. The trending hashtag continues to gain momentum on...

Culture

Why So Many Latino Men Join the Border Patrol that Dehumanizes Latinos

Yvette MontoyaJuly 2, 2019August 1, 2020

by Yvette MontoyaJuly 2, 2019August 1, 202006905

We wish we could say the news about the troubling Border Patrol Facebook group was shocking, but sadly, it really shouldn’t be. ProPublica recently exposed a Facebook group comprised of 9,500 Border Patrol agents that share sexist memes, xenophobic comments,...

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Why It’s So Important Latinxs Vote in 2018 Elections

kamariJune 22, 2018September 30, 2020

by kamariJune 22, 2018September 30, 202011306

Politics aside, each day Americans are faced with mounting moral crises—presented in the form of a new hashtag or unsettling photo shared rapidly across social media platforms. It seems as though just yesterday we were saying #BringBackOurGirls in reference to...

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Hundreds Protest on Father’s Day Against Immigrant Families Being Separated at The Border

Johanna FerreiraJune 18, 2018September 30, 2020

by Johanna FerreiraJune 18, 2018September 30, 20204 1101

A new tragic border patrol story circulates every day, ever since the Trump administration launched their cruel zero-tolerance policy for crossing the border illegally. Many have weighed in including politicians—even Melania Trump—and most agree that separating thousands of families at...

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This Undocumented Woman’s Child Was Taken From Her While Breastfeeding

Johanna FerreiraJune 14, 2018September 29, 2020

by Johanna FerreiraJune 14, 2018September 29, 20204 3691

When it comes to undocumented immigrants, our government has been particularly brutal—especially since the Trump administration came into power. Over the past few months, our news feeds have been flooded with stories about Latinos—undocumented or not—being discriminated and border patrol...

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This Woman Had The Perfect Response When Border Patrol Officers Boarded Her Greyhound Bus

Yvette MontoyaJune 13, 2018September 29, 2020

by Yvette MontoyaJune 13, 2018September 29, 202010 7704

Updated Friday, June 15 2018 We hear the word ally thrown around a lot but what does it really mean to be an ally in a time when people are actually turning in their neighbors, delivery people, and parents dropping...