Beyond Border Patrol: What CBP Recruiters Won’t Tell You

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Citations

  1. Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC), “Fatal Encounters with CBP Since 2010” (Updated Nov. 20, 2025), https://www.southernborder.org/deaths_by_border_patrol 
  2. Flores v. Garland, Case No. 2:85-cv-04544-DMG-AGR, Doc. 1352 at 41 (“Paul H. Wise Juvenile Care Monitor Report”) (July 18, 2023), https://youthlaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2023.07.18_flores-juvenile-care-monitor-report.pdf 
  3. Alexandra Mendoza, “Migrant woman dies after waiting to be processed at the border near San Ysidro,” The San Diego Union-Tribune, Oct. 13, 2023, https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2023/10/13/migrant-woman-dies-after-waiting-to-be-processed-at-the-border-near-san-ysidro/; Salvador Rivera, “Female migrant dies after crossing the border in California,” Border Report, Oct. 13, 2023, https://www.borderreport.com/news/female-migrant-dies-after-crossing-the-border-in-california/ 
  4. Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC), Civil Rights Civil Liberties Complaint (May 13, 2023) at 7-8 (describing detention of migrants for up to a week). See TEDS Standards § 4.1 https://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/cbp-teds-policy-october2015_2.pdf   (“Detainees should generally not be held for longer than 72 hours in CBP hold rooms or holding facilities. Every effort must be made to hold detainees for the least amount of time required for their processing, transfer, release, or repatriation as appropriate and as operationally feasible.”).
  5. Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC), “100 Year Anniversary of Border Patrol Violence and Impunity: Fighting For Our Dignity” (Updated May 2024), https://www.southernborder.org/100_years_of_fighting_for_our_dignity 
  6. Greg Grandin, “The Border Patrol has been a cult of brutality since 1924,” The Intercept, Jan. 12, 2019, https://theintercept.com/2019/01/12/border-patrol-history/ 
  7. Grandin, “The Border Patrol has been a cult of brutality since 1924,” https://theintercept.com/2019/01/12/border-patrol-history/
  8. Council of Foreign Relations, “ICE and Deportations: How Trump is Reshaping Immigration Enforcement,” (February 27, 2026), https://www.cfr.org/articles/ice-and-deportations-how-trump-reshaping-immigration-enforcement 
  9. Department of Homeland Security Customs and Border Patrol, Laredo, Texas and National Border Patrol Council, American Federation of Government Employees, Local 2455, AFL-CIO, Federal Labor Relations Authority, Case No. DA-CA-17-0067 (Dec. 5, 2017) (“Most border patrol agents work one of three ten-hour shifts:  the midnight shift […] the day shift […] and the swing shift, which runs from 2:00 p.m. to midnight.”). https://www.flra.gov/system/files/decisions/DA-CA-17-0067.pdf
  10. Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem 606 U. S. ____, No. 25A169 (Sept. 8, 2025), https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a169_5h25.pdf ; United States v. Carrillo-Lopez, No. 3:20-cr-00026-MMD-WGC, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 155741 at 9 (D. Nev. Aug. 18, 2021), https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nvd.144227/gov.uscourts.nvd.144227.60.0_2.pdf
  11. Joe Davidson, “Lawmakers, union and DHS fight suicide jump in customs agency,” The Washington Post, Mar. 3, 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/03/cbp-suicides-bennie-thompson-funding/
  12. Human Rights Watch, “US: Border Deterrence Leads to Deaths, Disappearances,” (June 26, 2024), https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/06/26/us-border-deterrence-leads-deaths-disappearances; No More Deaths,  La Coalición de Derechos Humanos, “Left to Die: Border Patrol, Search and Rescue, and the Crisis of Disappearance” (Feb. 3, 2021), http://www.thedisappearedreport.org/uploads/8/3/5/1/83515082/left_to_die_-_english.pdf  
  13. Rory Carrol, “US border patrol routinely sabotages water left for migrants, report says,” The Guardian, Jan. 17, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/17/us-border-patrol-sabotage-aid-migrants-mexico-arizona; Gustavo Solis, “Border agents destroy water and food left for people crossing border illegally,” KPBS, April 21, 2023, https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2023/04/21/border-agents-destroy-water-food-people-crossing-border-illegally 
  14. Katy Murdza, American Immigration Council, “These Humanitarian Aid Workers’ Convictions Were Overturned. Here’s How It Sets Precedent for Future Protection,” (Feb. 13, 2020), https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/humanitarian-aid-workers-convictions-overturned/ 
  15. Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC), Civil Rights Civil Liberties Complaint, “CBP Violations of Custody Standards and Human Rights of Individuals Detained in Open-Air Detention Sites in the San Diego Sector Require Immediate Attention to Save Lives,” (Dec. 11,  2023), https://assets.nationbuilder.com/alliancesandiego/pages/3500/attachments/original/1702482964/OADS_CRCL_Complaint_Final_Combined_for_Submission_2023.12.11.pdf  
  16. Southern Border Communities Coalition (SBCC), “Fatal Encounters with CBP since 2010,” https://www.southernborder.org/deaths_by_border_patrol; SBCC, “100 Year Anniversary of Border Patrol Violence and Impunity: Fighting For Our Dignity,” https://www.southernborder.org/100_years_of_fighting_for_our_dignity; Grandin, “The Border Patrol has been a cult of brutality since 1924,” https://theintercept.com/2019/01/12/border-patrol-history/ 
  17. Tim Dickinson, “‘Guats,’ ‘Tonks’ and ‘Subhuman Shit’: The shocking texts of a Border Patrol agent,” Rolling Stone, June 13, 2019, https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/matthew-bowen-border-patrol-trial-847878/
  18. A.C. Thompson, ProPublica, “Inside the secret Border Patrol Facebook group where agents joke about migrant deaths and post sexist memes,” (July 1, 2019), https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-facebook-group-agents-joke-about-migrant-deaths-post-sexist-memes  

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