Sam Chambers

The Border Patrol agent who shot Marimar Martinez and joked about putting seven bullet holes in her in text messages is a 23-year-veteran of Border Patrol.

Before Maine, Charles Exum was stationed at Alamogordo, New Mexico, where he won a nationwide police shooting contest.

Abolish borders.

Increasingly my book is about how we are focusing on discrete agencies & discrete violences - ICE, CBP, DHS - but what we need to be doing is rethinking the entirety of the system that ever imagined human beings as threats.

Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.

Rufo bringing back that vintage, early 20th century eugenic racism that made minute distinctions among “white stock.” Everything old is new again.

Nobody is Protected Now more resonant than ever amid escalating ICE raids and enforcement crackdowns targeting immigrants and American citizens alike, Nobody is Protected is an urgent examination of the U.S. Border Pa…

I wrote about the racism, violence, and impunity of the Border Patrol in my book Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States if you want to learn more www.counterpointpress.com/books/nobody...

Borders also keep you in

Got in 95% of what I wanted which was more than I would have expected

Thanks for explaining, and great piece otherwise! Not at all surprising from the NY War Crimes, of course. Dem party and liberal institution are terrified by the growing popularity of abolish ICE and are scrambling to control the narrative and put the breaks on the popular momentum for abolition.

Until the very last minute the final line was 'So yes abolish ICE but also abolish the Border Patrol.' But I agreed to the change, so pressured isn't quite right

Support Independent Journalism | GF

Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon.

A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website:

www.georgiafort.com/support

Border Patrol applicants train at a New Mexico academy for six intense months. CBP agents have killed more than 70 people since 2010.

(ICE is a completely different agency. The way Hicks conflates the two should help readers evaluate whether he’s minimally qualified to make policy recommendations.)

What is “an immigration problem”

16-year-old José Rodríguez was walking down a street in Mexico in 2012 when U.S. Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz shot at him 16 times. Rodríguez’s body was riddled with ten bullets, eight in his back.

Swartz, who claimed the child threw rocks across the border wall, was acquitted of murder.

ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.

After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I agree, so why end this otherwise spot-on piece by parroting the emerging liberal line that Border Patrol should "go back to the border?" Did NYT editors pressure you to add that in?

Also, as you know, there are "American cities" at the border, too.

Smart phone cameras are being used to track protesters and observers. Mandatory body cams would amount to dollars for contractors and a wearable surveillance camera for each and every agent.

DHS has purchased land and a 418,400 square-foot warehouse for an ICE detention center in Surprise, Arizona near Phoenix
www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

DHS has purchased land and a 418,400 square-foot warehouse for an ICE detention center in Surprise, Arizona near Phoenix
www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Smart phone cameras are being used to track protesters and observers. Mandatory body cams would amount to dollars for contractors and a wearable surveillance camera for each and every agent.

Hillary Clinton and Tucker Carlson Walk Into a Saudi Real Estate Forum

Tucker Carlson: "Saudi Arabia [...] is kind of a weirdly free place.”

Hillary Clinton: "The example that the kingdom is setting for the right kind of development [...] that is a very strong model for other parts of the world"

Quotes from a real estate conference in Riyadh

ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

"The violence, racial profiling and disregard for the Constitution that has burst into public view in Minneapolis is not new or unusual for the Border Patrol.... If you are uncomfortable with what the Border Patrol is doing in Minneapolis, you are uncomfortable with the Border Patrol, full stop."

It always, always goes back to the history of policing.

"From 1994 to 2012, the Border Patrol grew from 4,000 to 21,000 agents, with yearly budget increases, each bringing more capabilities and allowing the agency to expand to more locations, regardless of the president’s politics."

“As historian Greg Grandin writes, the Border Patrol has been a ‘cult of brutality’ since 1924, when it was created.”

Border Patrol Nation? For decades, the Border Patrol has operated with extraconstitutional powers along the U.S.-Mexico divide. Now it’s leading the charge in U.S. cities across the country.

When it comes to the Border Patrol, Border Chronicle cofounder, Todd Miller, literally wrote the book. "Border Patrol Nation" back in 2014. He predicted much of this. And his piece today highlights what the media and others are missing now. It's a must read🦂

Border Patrol Nation? For decades, the Border Patrol has operated with extraconstitutional powers along the U.S.-Mexico divide. Now it’s leading the charge in U.S. cities across the country.

"We are exempted from the Fourth Amendment" — CBP official, 2018. For decades, Border Patrol operated with impunity in the borderlands. Now they're 300 miles inland in Minneapolis & Chicago. The whole country has become the border.
#Immigration #BorderMilitarization

Read full story🦂🔗:

Opinion | The Border Patrol Is the Problem. It Always Has Been.

I wrote for the New York Times about how state violence that was hidden in the borderlands has burst into view in Minneapolis. The solution cannot be simply to send it back there www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

“The Border Is the Entire Country”: How Trump Brought Borderland Violence into U.S. Cities As President Trump shakes up the leadership of his immigration crackdown in Minnesota following the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti by Border Patrol agents, we examine the expanding role of the agenc...

Trump's immigration raids bring decades of Border Patrol violence from the borderlands into U.S. cities. Todd Miller for @democracynow.org: "the border is the entire country." With $33.5B in ICE/CBP budgets, this expanding crackdown comes with built-in impunity.

Full interview🔗: