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Behind the Bastards

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The Rise and Fall of Border Patrol in Texas

After 9 11, what we end up seeing is the border patrol decides to get very heavily invested into surveillance. So that's why you see them being used in Black Lives Matter protest and things like this. They're trying to get peace officer authority in Texas through the state legislature. The border patrol gets away with everything secret teams cover up teams and all this other stuff. Border Patrol agents will just flat out tell you, Constitution doesn't exist down here. And they never get in trouble for it so Yeah.

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