The Border Patrol’s Legacy of Violence - The American Prospect

The Border Patrol’s Legacy of Violence - The American Prospect

The year is 1924, and the Immigration Act has just passed. The Ku Klux Klan is in its heyday. White supremacists use both the law and vigilante action to maintain racial hierarchy and outright push nonwhite people out of the country.

This is the environment in which the Border Patrol was founded.

A century later, the agency, which is under the umbrella of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), is playing a major role alongside Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda. This was perhaps never clearer than last Saturday, when two Border Patrol agents shot and killed VA nurse and observer Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.  

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