DHS Report Confirms Border Officials’ Surveillance Against Journalists and Activists Federal officials say border authorities wrongfully conducted surveillance against journalists and activists crossing between the United States and Mexico — but the United States stopped short of commenting on whether they broke the law in doing so. The Department of Homeland Security’s report addressed a practice first brought to light in a in a March […]
Has ICE Refused Even Donated Flu Shot Vaccines for Detainees? Viral tweets claimed that border agencies turned away flu shot donations — even as new details emerged about a teenaged detainee's flu-related death earlier in the year.
Does Video Show Seesaws on Both Sides of the Border Wall? On July 29 2019, the Facebook page “Jolt Texas” shared a video (archived here), stating that “[artists] installed seesaws at the border wall” so that “kids in the U.S. and Mexico could play together”: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2494457997241197 The clip racked up millions of views in just a few days. Its caption read: Amazing: Artists installed seesaws at the […]
How Ginned-Up Outrage Turned Two Border Patrol Agents Into Right-Wing Heroes The fallout from a February 2005 extrajudicial shooting by two U.S. Border Patrol agents was picked up as a source of outrage by right-wing media personalities two years later. Jose Alonso Compeán and Ignacio Ramos were convicted in 2006 for charges including discharge of a firearm in commission of a crime of violence for shooting […]
