“In Arizona, heavily armed Border Patrol officers raided the medical camp of humanitarian group No More Deaths and detained 30 migrants whose whereabouts are now unknown. It was the second raid in just two days on the camp, which provides water, food and medical attention to refugees crossing into the United States through the scorching…
“Separated from her parents for fourteen years, Nataly shares how she and her sister bravely persevered on their journey from Guatemala to America and the family reunion of her dreams. Unwilling to be daunted by the language barrier, Nataly plunged wholeheartedly into her new life and will soon graduate from high school in Massachusetts where…
“The number of U.S. Border Patrol agents stood at over 1,700 in 1975, but today nearly 20,000 agents are on patrol as one of the largest and most well-funded enforcement agencies in the country. A new documentary called “Undeterred,” sheds light on how the expansion has impacted one small Arizona community along the southern border….
“U.S. Border Patrol agents have killed 97 people since 2003, including at least six Mexicans on Mexican soil. Democracy Now! traveled to the borderlands of Arizona earlier this month to cover one of these killings: the death of José Antonio Elena Rodríguez, who was gunned down by a Border Patrol agent in 2012. We met…
“A.C. Thompson, a reporter with ProPublica, uncovered a secret Facebook group that included thousands of current and former Border Patrol agents. Members of the group shared racist, homophobic and sexist messages and memes. Thompson, who also reported on the deadly Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, says he sees “definite parallels between the…
“Customs and Border Protection has opened an investigation into the posting of racist and xenophobic messages by current and former Border Patrol agents on a private Facebook group. More than 9,500 people are part of the group, which was exposed by ProPublica on Monday. The Facebook group is filled with racist, homophobic, anti-immigrant and misogynistic…
“Members of the vigilante group United Constitutional Patriots have repeatedly filmed themselves detaining migrants illegally at gunpoint. Peter Simonson of the New Mexico ACLU says the vigilantes’ actions could have had tacit approval from immigration authorities. “There is plenty of video evidence … that suggests that the Border Patrol is actively collaborating with these folks,…
“In January 2017, President Trump signed an executive order to hire 5,000 additional border patrol agents. Two years later, only 118 have joined the agency. USA Today reporter Alan Gomez talks with Hari Sreenivasan about how changing schedules, remote locations with few amenities, increasing workloads and stress have made recruiting, deploying and retaining agents a…
“Extended conversation with Greg Grandin, author of the new book, “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America.” Grandin is a professor at New York University and a Pulitzer Prize finalist.” Democracy Now! is an independent global news hour that airs on nearly 1,400 TV and…