Trump’s cruel and immoral anti-immigrant frenzy rests on false economic claims.
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Believing Borders Make Us Safer Is Like Believing the Sun Revolves Around Earth Read Post »
You have “nothing to fear if you’re an American citizen. If you’re not an American citizen, then look out.” That’s what Border Patrol “Commander at Large” Gregory Bovino said in December, as he and his entourage of masked agents patrolled a residential neighborhood in Kenner, Louisiana, a diverse suburb of New Orleans. Asked by a […]
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Watch: Four Shocking Months With Gregory Bovino Read Post »
“My own government attempted to execute me — and when they failed, they chose to vilify me,” testified Marimar Martinez.
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US Citizens Describe Being Shot, Harassed, and Threatened by Immigration Agents Read Post »
This post originally appeared on author Garrett Graff’s site Doomsday Scenario, which you can subscribe to here. On Friday, I testified in front of Governor J.B. Pritzker’s “Illinois Accountability Commission,” the state government body he set up after the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” attack on Chicago last summer and the precursor of the even larger federal […]
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What Democrats Need to Know to Truly Reform ICE Read Post »
This post originally appeared on author Garrett Graff’s site Doomsday Scenario, which you can subscribe to here. On Friday, I testified in front of Governor J.B. Pritzker’s “Illinois Accountability Commission,” the state government body he set up after the Trump administration’s “Operation Midway Blitz” attack on Chicago last summer and the precursor of the even larger federal […]
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What Democrats Need to Know to Truly Reform ICE Read Post »
This story was co-published with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom covering gun violence in America. On December 31, in the waning hours of 2025, the Washington Post reported on an internal ICE document that concerned the agency’s “wartime recruitment” strategy, or rather its attempt to expeditiously swell its ranks of deportation officers. The memo, according to […]
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Minneapolis Is the Violent Reckoning the Gun Rights Movement Has Long Wanted Read Post »
Over a few weeks this January, two Minneapolis sisters repeatedly left their homes and headed out to mock, insult, and record Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino, who until recently was leading the disastrous and violent anti-immigrant operation of the city. The first time they heard him speak, the women, who uploaded their street surveillance of […]
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The Power of Mocking Trump’s Pathetic Monsters Read Post »
Ending immigration agents’ abuses requires reckoning with a long history of cruelty at the border.
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ICE Is Not the Only Problem. Border Patrol Has Acted With Impunity for Decades. Read Post »
As January comes to a close, it should not just become a harrowing memory. The past four weeks are a harbinger of what is to come under President Donald Trump, as the administration showed exactly the future it is building: One in which the laws are ignored, American life is cheap, and elections are hijacked […]
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January Was a Warning of Where Trump Will Go Next Read Post »
A former Border Patrol agent rejects the idea of insufficient training causing violence, saying, “this is the training.”
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Trump Administration Brought the Violence of US Border Policies Into US Cities Read Post »
A version of this story was originally published by The Watch, Radley Balko’s Substack publication, to which you can subscribe here. Conservatives are fond of invoking the American founding, the framers of the Constitution, and the principles that drove the fight for independence. Those invocations have always been selective and opportunistic, but they’ve grown downright farcical as right-wingers contort themselves into knots […]
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Trump’s Twin Cities Onslaught Feels a Lot Like the British Tyranny in Colonial Boston Read Post »
Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol “commander-at-large” who terrorized people across America in his Nazi-like trench coat, is being put out to pasture by President Donald Trump. The cause was Bovino’s stupidity, not his cruelty. After his Border Patrol agents disarmed and killed Alex Pretti in broad daylight on Saturday, Bovino shamelessly slandered the 37-year-old nurse […]
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How Greg Bovino Proved Too Openly Fascistic for Trump Read Post »
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