Border Patrol

Indian Country remembers. This is not the first administration to order the forced separation of families.
The Trump administration has initiated a zero-tolerance policy on the border. Zero tolerance means that people caught crossing the border are treated as criminals.
On Friday, the Department of Homeland Security said the Trump administration separated 1,995 children from the adults they were traveling with at the U.S. border between April 19 and May 31.

Tucson: A 21-year veteran of the Border patrol was alone in a rural area when he was attacked by an unknown number of people and shot several times. He is in stable condition. Several people have been taken into custody, but no one has been charged at this time. [...]

The United Nations human rights office on Tuesday demanded that the Trump administration “immediately halt” its policy of tearing migrant children away from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border, declaring that the practice “always constitutes a child rights violation.”

Marijuana possession still will be prohibited at eight Border Patrol checkpoints in California, a reminder that state and federal laws collide when it comes to pot. The U.S. government classifies marijuana as a controlled substance, like heroin and LSD.

(ANTIMEDIA) Local, state, and federal government agencies are celebrating a massive drug bust on Thursday that involved police ramming an armored vehicle through the front door of a private residence in New York.

A woman holds a candle covered by a picture of late Mexican Anastasio Hernandez during a protest at the San Ysidro border crossing in Tijuana, Mexico, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo)
SAN DIEGO – In the first case of its kind, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has given the United States three months to respond to charges of abuse of human rights, from the family of a man killed by Border Patrol agents in 2010.
Border watchers consider it a major test of the Trump administration’s stand on immigration, crime and law enforcement.

(ANTIMEDIA) “Unprecedented” deportations of immigrants through the deployment of up to 100,000 National Guard troops? The Trump administration considered it, according to the Associated Press, citing a “draft memo.” But how legit is the story, and who benefits from it?

A law enforcement officer speaks to a protester against the Dakota Access Pipeline through a wall of razor wire on the Backwater Bridge over Cantapeta Creek on Thursday afternoon, Dec. 8, 2016. (Tom Stromme/The Bismarck Tribune via AP)

Guillermo Jimenez | Arivaca's had enough, and residents of this rural Arizona border town are letting the US Department of Homeland Security know that their inland immigration checkpoint has got to go. Some 100 concerned citizens and like-minded supporters descended upon the Border Patrol checkpoint on Arivaca Road...

By Tim Cushing | Techdirt | May 12, 2014

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