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  1. Democide

    Homeland Security Is Buying Its Way Around the Fourth Amendment

    Homeland Security Is Buying Its Way Around the Fourth Amendment 19 July 2022 American taxpayers pay to be spied upon. That's one takeaway from new documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has been examining how federal agents spent millions to purchase massive...
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    Yuma, Arizona: Border Patrol Agents Are Trashing Sikh Asylum-Seekers' Turbans

    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...
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    The FBI Wants To Be Your Facebook Friend

    The FBI Wants To Be Your Facebook Friend 14 April 2022 Undoubtedly, the FBI has always surveilled the open web, looking for persons or phrases of interest. It’s just going to get a whole lot better at doing it. And it’s going to spend millions of your tax dollars to make it easier to place...
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    Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) force-installed suicide prevention app on employees’ phones

    ICE force-installed suicide prevention app on employees’ phones Staffers say move reflects abysmal morale at immigration enforcement agency 31 March 2022 ICE automatically installed a suicide prevention app on employees’ government-issued smartphones this week, staffers told The Washington...
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    Texas: Gov. Greg Abbott misuses state police (Department of Public Safety) to abuse truckers

    Greg Abbott Screwed Over Truck Drivers in a Misguided Attempt to Increase Border Security The new inspection initiative duplicated screenings that were already being carried out, irking trade officials and truckers—even those who have supported Abbott up until this point. 15 April 2022 Last...
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    Why Does Border Patrol Need the Ability To Delete Messages?

    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...
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    Faith Under Fire: A Pastor’s Legal Fight Against CBP Exposes a Reckless Surveillance Operation

    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...
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    Laredo, Texas: Border Patrol agent Brandy Marie Ochoa tried strangling her 10-year-old daughter

    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...
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    Laredo, Texas: USBP agent admits to drinking beer prior to DWI arrest

    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...
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    Real County, Texas, sheriff Nathan Johnson under investigation for stealing cash & vehicles from undocumented immigrants

    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...
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    Texas National Guard Filmed Trespassing During Border Operations

    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...
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    Customs & Border Protection Proudly Announces Its Facial Recognition Program Has Successfully Nailed A COVID Scofflaw

    CBP Proudly Announces Its Facial Recognition Program Has Successfully Nailed A COVID Scofflaw 16 December 2021 Customs and Border Protection continues to protect our borders against… stuff. Much like the TSA struggles to catch any terrorists (or, indeed, any items actual terrorists might use)...
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    Nogales, Arizona: Mexican woman Marisol García Alcántara shot in head by US Border Patrol files claim: ‘I am looking for justice’

    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...
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    Watchdog: Customs and Border Protection anti-terror unit investigated journalists

    Watchdog; Federal anti-terror unit investigated journalists 11 December 2021 A special Customs and Border Protection unit used sensitive government databases intended to track terrorists to investigate as many as 20 U.S.-based journalists, including a Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press...
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    Cut Bank, Montana: Ex border patrol officer Harrison Garrett Alvarez sentenced for threatening 3 Blackfeet tribal employees

    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...
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    California: Sacramento County sheriff Scott Jones turning inmates over to ICE in violation of state rules, lawsuit says

    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...
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    Laredo, Texas: Customs and Border Protection officer Ricardo Lozoya charged with DUI

    Affidavit: CBP officer charged with DUI 19 November 2021 U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed that one of its officers has been arrested on suspicion of driving drunk. CBP confirmed that Ricardo Lozoya, 42, was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated. He remains on...
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    If Courts Won't Protect People's Phones At The Border, Congress Needs To Act Now

    If Courts Won't Protect People's Phones At The Border, Congress Needs To Act Now 26 October 2021 Invasive searches of people's phones at border crossings and international airports have become standard operating procedure for US border control agencies. The usual justifications have been...
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    Fifth Circuit Says Abdulaziz Ghedi Can't Sue Federal Agencies For Targeting Him After He Refused To Be An FBI Informant

    Fifth Circuit Says Man Can't Sue Federal Agencies For Allegedly Targeting Him After He Refused To Be An FBI Informant 8 November 2021 The secrecy surrounding all things national security-related continues to thwart lawsuits alleging rights violations. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has...
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    California Activists Sue Marin Co. Sheriff for Illegally Sharing License Plate Data With ICE, CBP and Other Out-of-State Agencies Immigran

    California Activists Sue Marin County Sheriff for Illegally Sharing Drivers’ License Plate Data With ICE, CBP and Other Out-of-State Agencies Immigrants’ Privacy, Security Threatened by Sheriff’s Practice, Which Violates California Law 14 October 2021 Community activists in Northern...
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