newyorker.com/news/news-desk…
That the BP Union may have goaded the agency into raiding an aid station is further proof that Trump is increasingly using @DHSgov thugs as his personal army theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…
"Of the top 20 posts on its Twitter feed, all but three are retweets of Trump’s personal or campaign messages." (@Edpilkington)
To the extent that there have been any radical shifts in the past few weeks it’s the fact “that white people are starting to care.”
(And of course, Pinochet's terror was made possible by US support)
latimes.com/opinion/story/…
How—as @prisonculture + others have explained—"There is not a single era in US history in which the police were not a force of violence against black people."
nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opi…
Border Patrol's legacy of racist violence, murdering Mexicans, and inculcating agents into a culture that dehumanizes and abuses the undocumented is alive and well.
theintercept.com/2019/01/12/bor…
Attacks against white humanitarians and white protestors is an escalation, not an aberration.
And keep an eye out for the forthcoming Part III of @NoMoreDeaths' DISAPPEARED report series:
Part III: "Left to Die: Border Patrol, Search and Rescue, and the Crisis of Disappearance.”
We suspect there will be much more to come...