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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Being Sued for ‘Inhumane’ Treatment of Migrants

Kiko Martinez — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 16:47:09 +0000

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a lawsuit on Monday (July 24) against Texas and Gov. Greg Abbott for installing a barrier in the Rio Grande. The lawsuit states that Abbott is breaking the Rivers and Harbors Appropriation Act of 1899, which bans the “creation of any obstruction not affirmatively authorized by Congress, to

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For Months, Border Patrol Has Rejected CDC Suggestions to Vaccinate Immigrants for the Flu

Raquel Reichard — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 16:10:29 +0000

For months, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to vaccinate immigrants and asylum seekers in detention against the flu virus, but the agency has continued to ignore the medical professionals’ suggestions, the Washington Post reports. According to a letter from the CDC to Rep. Rosa

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Former Border Patrol Agent Gets 3 Years Probation for Intentionally Hitting Immigrant With Truck

Raquel Reichard — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 19:26:19 +0000

On Wednesday, a former border patrol agent was sentenced to three years probation for intentionally hitting a migrant with an agency pickup truck. The judge in the case said he gave Matthew Bowen, a former agent in Nogales, Arizona, three years probation rather than the recommended six-month jail sentence plus a year of supervised release

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Families of Teens Killed by Border Patrol Need $5K to Attend Supreme Court Arguments of Their Cases

Raquel Reichard — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 20:34:46 +0000

A GoFundMe campaign is raising money for the parents of Sergio Adrián Hernández Güereca, a 15-year-old Mexican boy who was fatally shot by a U.S. border agent, to attend the oral arguments in a Supreme Court case involving the teen’s death. On November 12, the highest court of the land will decide whether the parents

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Women Detained by Border Agent for Speaking Spanish Are Suing CBP

Yara Simón — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:30:54 +0000

One Wednesday morning in 2018, Ana Suda and friend Mimi Hernández were just chatting in Spanish at a convenience store in Havre, Montana when a border agent interrupted their conversation and questioned their citizenship. Though they said they were born in Texas and California, the agent forced them to show him their driver’s licenses and

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After Border Patrol Agent Murders 4 Women, We Should Be Looking at the Agency’s Hiring Practices

Adriana Cataño — Mon, 17 Sep 2018 19:46:17 +0000

Over the weekend, news broke that Juan David Ortiz, a US Border Patrol supervisor, confessed to killing four women, all of whom were sex workers. He’s currently being held in Laredo on $2.5 million bond. As more information is revealed about him and the women he targeted, it’s important that we not only talk about

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This 900-Foot Tunnel Ran From A KFC In Arizona To Sonora, Mexico

Frances Solá-Santiago — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 21:41:47 +0000

Thanks, in part, to Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, tunnels have become synonymous with drugs. El Chapo reportedly used an elaborate tunnel to escape jail and he used these underground passageways to build his trafficking empire in Mexico. They are certainly nothing new; the first drug tunnel found along the border was in 1990. But in Arizona,

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Border Patrol Held Two US Citizens Just For Speaking Spanish

Remezcla Estaff — Mon, 21 May 2018 15:28:05 +0000

Despite the fact that speaking Spanish in the United States – a country that does not have an official language – isn’t illegal or doesn’t indicate someone’s citizenship status, a Border Patrol agent held two women for 35 to 40 minutes because they spoke Spanish near the Canadian border. On Wednesday morning at a convenience store

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