border patrol

Border Patrol Agents Are Trashing Sikh Asylum-Seekers' Turbans “The turban is sacred.” At least 64 Sikh men have had their headwear confiscated and discarded by Yuma’s Border Patrol. 2 August 2022 Gurjodh Singh was leaning against a rusted vehicle barrier — planted like a giant jack in the...

Uvalde school police chief blamed in Texas shooting response 28 May 2022 The police official blamed for not sending officers in more quickly to stop the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting is the chief of the school system’s small police force, a unit dedicated ordinarily to building relationships...

Why Does Border Patrol Need the Ability To Delete Messages? A lawsuit attempts to find out how federal agents are implementing Wickr, a communications service that has an auto-erase function. 4 April 2022 The same government that wants to demand access to all our secure phone and online...

Faith Under Fire: A Pastor’s Legal Fight Against CBP Exposes a Reckless Surveillance Operation 6 March 2022 The sun was beginning to set as Kaji Dousa neared the border. It was two days into 2019, and the line she was about to cross separating San Diego and Tijuana was the site of a...

The U.S. Border Patrol is Broken | Opinion 2 March 2022 The way the United States handles the arrival of migrants at the southern border is in dire need of reform, as border control agents themselves have told me. Recently, eight former U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents spoke with me...

Migrants Detained in Texas Border Operation Are Fighting Back — and It's Not Going Well For Gove. Greg Abbott A Texas judge ruled that the state’s arrests of migrants caught crossing the border is an unconstitutional encroachment on federal authority. 26 January 2022 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s...

Affidavit: USBP agent tried strangling her 10-year-old daughter 11 January 2022 A U.S. Border Patrol agent landed behind bars for causing injuries to her daughter, according to Laredo police. Brandy Marie Ochoa, 41, was served with arrest warrants on Jan. 7 charging her with two counts of...

Affidavit: USBP agent Francisco Javier Romero admits to drinking beer prior to DWI arrest 13 January 2022 A U.S. Border Patrol agent recently arrested on a drunk driving allegation admitted to drinking beer prior to the arrest, according to an arrest affidavit. The case unfolded at about...

Texas sheriff under investigation for routinely seizing cash from undocumented immigrants Search warrants show that Real County Sheriff Nathan Johnson is under scrutiny by state investigators, accused of illegally confiscating cash and a pickup truck from immigrants stopped by his deputies. 10...

Augmenting the cops with armed soldiers: Texas National Guard Filmed Trespassing During Border Operations Soldiers patrolling border communities with assault rifles is the latest escalation in Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star. 17 December 2021 It was early November when Marianna...

Mexican woman shot in head by US Border Patrol files claim: ‘I am looking for justice’ Marisol García Alcántara was shot shortly after arriving in the US, while riding in an SUV in Arizona 15 December 2021 Attorneys for a Mexican woman who was shot in the head by a Border Patrol agent and...

Startup Brinc Pitched Tasing Migrants From Drones, Video Reveals Well-funded Brinc positions its use of robots as nonviolent, but an early promo video undercuts this message. 13 December 2021 Brinc, a rising star among the many companies jockeying to sell drones to police, has a compelling...

Former federal officer sentenced for threatening 3 Blackfeet tribal employees 23 November 2021 A former off-duty federal law enforcement officer who admitted to misdemeanor assault for pointing an assault rifle at three Blackfeet tribal employees who were testing water on his property was...

California sheriff turning inmates over to ICE in violation of state rules, lawsuit says 17 November 2021 A California sheriff has been hit with a lawsuit from the American Civil Liberties Union after he allegedly violated state law by turning inmates over to Immigration and Customs...

Border Patrol agent shot at naked, rock-throwing migrant, feds say 18 November 2021 A U.S. Border Patrol agent opened fire on a naked man who was allegedly throwing rocks at him Wednesday morning on Otay Mountain, authorities said. The 29-year-old man was not struck by the agent's gunfire...

Frankly, it's where way too many current & former border patrol agents belong! Lock her up! This Woman Served 11 Years in Prison on a Marijuana Charge. She's Been Sent Back Over a Clerical Error. Raquel Esquivel, convicted of a nonviolent drug offense in 2009, was put on home confinement...

SCOTUS Has Made It Practically Impossible To Sue a Rights-Violating Federal Officer 11 November 2021 Several recent Supreme Court decisions have made it practically impossible to sue a federal officer over alleged violations of constitutional rights. Now the Court has agreed to hear a case...

Border Patrol has a ‘shadow police unit’ that protects agents when they kill, groups say These "shadow police units" have been operating since at least 1987 and without any actual authority under federal law, according to a letter sent to Congress calling for an investigation. 28 October 2021...

If the Police Lie, Should They Be Held Liable? Often the Answer Is No. 12 September 2021 In 2010, Officer Heather Weyker of the St. Paul Police Department in Minnesota had the biggest case of her career: a child sex-trafficking ring said to have spanned four states and involved girls as young...

Greyhound settles lawsuit over immigration sweeps on buses 27 September 2021 Greyhound Lines Inc. will pay $2.2 million to settle a lawsuit over the bus line’s practice of allowing U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to board its buses in Washington state to conduct warrantless...