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America’s Immigration Amnesia

America’s Immigration Amnesia

I Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas were accustomed to encountering a few hundred children attempting to cross the American border alone each month. Some hoped to sneak into the country unnoticed; others readily presented themselves to officials in order to request asylum. The agents would transport the children, who were exhausted, dehydrated, and sometimes injured, to Border Patrol stations and book them into austere concrete holding cells. The facilities are notoriously cold, so agents would hand the children Mylar blankets to keep warm until federal workers...

March 29, 2021
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‘People Actively Hate Us’: Inside the Border Patrol’s Morale Crisis (Published 2019)

‘People Actively Hate Us’: Inside the Border Patrol’s Morale Crisis (Published 2019)

Supported by and One Border Patrol agent in Tucson said he had been called a “sellout” and a “kid killer.” In El Paso, an agent said he and his colleagues in uniform had avoided eating lunch together except at certain “BP friendly” restaurants because “there’s always the possibility of them spitting in your food.” An agent in Arizona quit last year out of frustration. “Caging people for a nonviolent activity,” he said, “started to eat away at me.”For decades, the Border Patrol was a largely invisible security force. Along the southwestern border, its work was dusty and lonely. Between...

September 15, 2019
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