Big Bend Becomes Congressional Battleground
Pete Gallego’s going green in a bid to reclaim the purple district for Democrats.
Last year, freshman U.S. Representative Will Hurd cosponsored a bill requiring the Department of Homeland Security to build close to 200 miles of road in the Big Bend region, giving Border Patrol agents unfettered authority to chop up large swaths of desert wilderness.
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4 Ways Border Patrol Union’s Trump Endorsement Is Filled With Lies and Misinformation
By Astrid Dominguez
Last month, the National Border Patrol Council — the union representing 16,500 of the Border Patrol’s 21,000 agents — issued a full-throatedendorsement of presidential candidate Donald Trump, who notched another primary victory last night in my fellow border state, New York. So I thought this was as good of a time as any to break down why several statements in NBPC’s endorsement exemplify the agency’s reputation as the nation’s most “out-of-control” law-enforcement agency.
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Caso Anastasio: La dignidad vencerá
Es imposible olvidar los gritos de un hombre indefenso que imploraba auxilio. Fue una noche tibia de mayo de 2010, cuando al menos una docena de agentes fronterizos sometían a puntapiés, macanazos y descargas eléctricas a Anastasio Hernández Rojas. El violento incidente sucedió a escasos metros de la antigua salida peatonal de la garita internacional de San Ysidro, ante la mirada atónita de cientos de personas que observaban horrorizadas como los uniformados acababan con la vida de un ser humano.
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Killings, deaths at the border
Six years after migrant's death, family suit points to larger issues surrounding border activity, investigations
The family of a migrant from Mexico who died from injuries inflicted by border police in 2010 announced last month that they are suing the U.S. in an international case for human rights violations that their lawyer, Roxanna Altholz of the International Human Rights Law Clinic, says is the first of its kind.
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Update: Border Patrol Agent Pleads Not Guilty To Assault
The Border Patrol agent accused of attacking a Massena couple who stopped to help his wife after a fatal accident pleaded not guilty to felony assault charges.
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US House OKs US-Mexico Border Threat Assessment
By Christopher Conover
The U.S. House passed legislation Wednesday that would require the Department of Homeland Security to conduct a threat assessment of the border with Mexico.
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Judge stops Border Patrol from putting war vet in Texas
By AP
BAY CITY, Mich. (AP) — A war veteran seeking to avoid a U.S. Border Patrol assignment in Texas because of post-traumatic stress disorder has won a key ruling from a federal judge in Michigan.
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Undocumented Cal State students fear Border Patrol’s participation in career fair
By Peter Fricke
Students at the California State University, San Marcos staged a demonstration Thursday protesting the inclusion of Border Patrol representatives at the school’s career fair.
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Revealed: immigration officers allowed to hack phones
Home Office granted powers to snoop on detention centre refugees three years ago by amendment to 20-year-old Police Act
By Mark Townsend
Immigration officials have been permitted to hack the phones of refugees and asylum seekers, including rape and torture victims, for the past three years.
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Border Patrol’s use-of-force stats say nothing about immigrant deaths
By Amanda Sakuma
U.S. Customs and Border Protection boasted this week that agents used significantly less deadly force in the field over the last year, with incidents down 26 percent even as assaults against agents held steady. But the embattled agency’s steps toward reform and greater transparency omit one key detail: just how many of their altercations resulted in severe injuries or even death.
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