u.s.-mexico border
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Border Agent Discussed ‘Frying’ Migrants Before Hitting One With His Truck, Feds Charge
A U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of deliberately hitting a Guatemalan migrant with his truck and then lying about it conveyed numerous racial slurs and derogatory statements about Central American and Guatemalan migrants in a series of texts sent weeks before the incident, federal prosecutors charge. According to the Washington Post: In the dozens of…
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FBI Arrests 69-Year-Old Militia Leader Whose Group Boasts Ties to U.S. Border Patrol
Larry Mitchell Hopkins, the 69-year-old leader of the United Constitutional Patriots, an armed border militia group spreading conspiracies and rounding up asylum-seekers along the U.S.-Mexico border, has been taken into custody by the FBI. The New Mexico Resident allegedly illegal detained immigrants crossing the border while posing as United States Border Patrol. The organization has…
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A Group of Wannabe Feds Is Going Around Pointing Guns at Immigrants at the US-Mexico Border and Calling It Citizen's Arrest; ACLU Calls It Kidnapping
Members of a local militia in New Mexico apparently decided to take matters into their own hands regarding this nation’s immigration policy and detained a group of asylum seekers at gunpoint before turning them over to U.S. Border Patrol. Video posted online by a group calling itself United Constitutional Patriots show armed militia members, wearing…
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Donald Trump Handed Rare Victory as 9th Circuit Rules in Favor of Returning Asylum Seekers to Mexico
According to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Trump Administration is allowed to continue sending asylum seekers back to Mexico. The ruling comes after an appeals court decision halted the practice, and days after a federal judge in California blocked the policy, dubbed the Migration Protection Protocols. In a two-paragraph ruling, the 9th Circuit…
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Trump Declares Country 'Full' As States Sue to Block Wall Funding
At this rate, folks, Trump’s next executive order might have ICE agents play “Closing Time” from tank stereos situated along the border. Trump participated in a briefing on immigration in Calexico, a small city situated along the border between the U.S. and Mexico, where he used his bully pulpit to hammer home the creeping threat…
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Trump Ready to Issue First Veto As New Budget Calls for Budget Cuts
They grow up so fast. One day, your new President is on the job for the first day. Wobbly and uncertain, you watched as he moved around Capitol Hill aimlessly, like a deer in headlights after a daring escape from the Doritos compound. He stumbled through his first top-level hires, invented a word, and gave…
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American Citizen Shot in the Head While Attempting to Escape into Mexico
As Republicans decry violence at the United States’ shared border with Mexico, they may want to look a little closer. An American citizen in Nogales, Ariz. was shot in the back of the head while trying to flee into Mexico Thursday night. It remains unclear why the officer involved elected to use lethal force, and…
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New Mexico Governor Orders National Guard Troops Back from Border
The jig is hurtling toward the sun. Deriding the “charade of border fear-mongering by Donald Trump, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham ordered the majority of National Guard troops deployed at the state’s southern border to withdraw. “I reject the federal contention that there exists an overwhelming national security crisis at the Southern border,” Lujan…
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White House Squatter Mulls Fake National Emergency to Secure Border Wall Funds
The current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., is preparing to falsify a national emergency along the southern border in order to bypass Congress’ refusal to fund his steel-slatted fever dream. After being put in his place again (and again) by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi over his plans to carry on…