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Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

The Death of a Border Patrol Agent

There has been white supremacist violence at the border ever since Duke, and long before. In Arizona, groups like Arizona Border Recon and Minute Men American Defence have terrorized border communities for decades. The interaction with these militias, probably far more often than we have documented evidence for, can be fatal,. just like interaction with Customs and Border Protection. Since the mid-1980s, the Border Patrol's Explorer program has recruited young men and women of high school age. Young explorers will learn tracking, survival, shooting, and how to detain and process undocumented migrants - people who in some cases are walking in the footsteps of their own parents. For kids, often the children of immigrants, living in border towns

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