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Uncle Joe

(64,439 posts)
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 01:19 PM 10 hrs ago

Decades of Anti-Immigration Policy Created "Mass Grave" at Southern Border



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 agency in interior enforcement.

Independent journalist Todd Miller says the Trump administration's immigration operations in U.S. cities are an "extension" of "policies and practices that we've been seeing in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands now for decades," characterizing Border Patrol culture as one of rampant abuse and impunity.

We also speak with Jenn Budd, a former Border Patrol agent who quit in 2001 and is now an immigrant rights activist. She disputes the claim that recent violence by CBP staff is a result of insufficient training. "The management of the Border Patrol has been corrupt for many generations, and then after 9/11 we just gave them money with little accountability and let them design their own accountability systems," says Budd.
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Murder Inc Kid Berwyn 8 hrs ago #1

Kid Berwyn

(23,470 posts)
1. Murder Inc
Wed Jan 28, 2026, 03:09 PM
8 hrs ago

USA really has gone downhill fast since going into business with the mob to kill the Kennedys, Dr. King and Malcolm X. I mean Castro.

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