border patrol
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A Weekend of Unrest as Violence Erupts at Protests Across the Country
At this point, it’s common knowledge that protests against police brutality and systemic racism are ongoing across the country, with no sign that they’ll be slowing down anytime soon. Over the past weekend across multiple states, peaceful protests turned violent, with one resulting in a person’s death. In recent weeks, Portland, Ore., has become one…
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Supreme Court Rules Parents of Child Shot By Border Patrol Can't Sue
The Supreme Court as shaped by Donald Trump has proven itself to be highly partisan. Even in issues that don’t directly affect the President, they seem to be ruling in a way that he’d agree with. NBC News reports that the Supreme Court has ruled that the parents of Sergio Hernandez Guereca cannot sue the…
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Greyhound Is Saying No to Border Patrol Immigration Checks on Their Buses
According to the Associated Press, Greyhound, the largest bus company in the country, has officially declared that they will no longer be allowing Border Patrol agents without a warrant to conduct routine immigration checks on their buses. Previously, Greyhound had insisted that they had no choice but to follow federal law in allowing agents to…
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Federal Judge Rules Conditions in Migrant Holding Cells to be Unconstitutional
There is a certain subset of the population that believes a person’s humanity should be disregarded if they aren’t American or came here illegally. Those are people that are a part of a group I like to call “total dicks.” Thankfully, the federal judge responsible for this evening’s story doesn’t belong to that group. CNN…
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Unsatisfied With Being a 1st Round Bust, Cleveland Browns Lineman Greg Robinson Caught With 157 Pounds of Weed
Things to do with 157 pounds of weed: Start a dispensary. Reboot the Cheech & Chong franchise with Method Man and Redman. Roll the biggest blunt in the history of modern mankind. Fuck off a lucrative football career that’s netted you almost $30 million so far by getting knocked on possession charges. Clearly, NFL offensive…
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Border Patrol Agents to Be Deployed to Sanctuary Cities Because That Makes Sense
The 2007 Battle of the Billionaires winner currently masquerading as President really wants you to know he’s a white nationalist. If it’s not the continued employment of Stephen Miller despite being outed as a white nationalist, it’s shit like this. NBC News reports that over the course of February through May, 100 Border Patrol agents…
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Migrants as Young as 14 Are Now Being Subjected to an Intrusive DNA Collection Policy…Thanks to the Trump Administration
On Monday, the Trump administration unveiled its controversial pilot program that will collect DNA samples from migrants and immigrants in U.S immigration custody. CBS News reports that the samples will be taken from cheek swabs and used to create comprehensive profiles in a national criminal database managed by the FBI. This program is the introductory…
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Someone Came Up With a Pretty Simple Way to Breach Trump’s ‘Impenetrable’ Border Wall
Less than two months after Donald Trump hailed his dumb border wall as a “virtually impenetrable” barrier that couldn’t be breached by “world-class climbers,” officials report that industrious border-crossers have figured out a clever way to bypass the wall: A saw and a ladder. The Washington Post reports that people whose level of genius appears…
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ICE Raids to Deport Migrant Families Set to Begin Sunday in 10 US Cities
Despite reported misgivings by the head of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE agents are prepared to start rounding up migrant families with existing deportation orders Sunday in 10 major cities around the country. According to reports by the Washington Post and CNN, both citing confidential sources, the raids are to begin before dawn Sunday…
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Draws GOP Wrath After Slamming Immigrant Detention Centers as Modern-Day ‘Concentration Camps’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling out the dire situation for immigrants being held at the United States’ southern border in federal detention centers as being akin to the concentration camps of the Holocaust—and she doesn’t care who may be butt-hurt about the comparison. “The United States is running concentration camps on our southern border, and…