Peter Riley

It’s all just a little bit of history repeating. - Shirley Bassey

https://portside.org/2026-02-03/border-patrols-legacy-violence

The Border Patrol’s Legacy of Violence

The year is 1924, and the Immigration Act has just passed. The Ku Klux Klan is in its heyday. White supremacists use both the law and vigilante action to maintain racial hierarchy and outright push nonwhite people out of the country. This is the environment in which the Border Patrol was founded.

Portside
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Show threadPeter Riley6d ago

367 fatal encounters since 2010

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) - includes Border Patrol - is the largest federal law enforcement agency in the country. No on-duty agent in the nearly 100-year history of the agency has been successfully convicted of a killing while “just doing their job”

https://www.southernborder.org/deaths_by_border_patrol

Fatal Encounters with CBP

Southern Border Communities Coalition
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Not Minnesota Nice
Meditations on the Colonialism of Our Times - Nick Estes Feb 03, 2026

https://nickestes.substack.com/p/not-minnesota-nice

#Colonialism #FirstNations #ICEout #Minnesota

Not Minnesota Nice

Meditations on the Colonialism of Our Times

Red Scare
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#BeGood #ReneeGood #ICEout #minneapolis #AlexPretti
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-06/renee-nicole-good-minneapolis-ice-shooting-timeline/106283054

#ICEout #Minneapolis

After the Minneapolis ICE shooting of Renee Nicole Good a week of chaos unfolds

Ms Good and her wife moved to Minneapolis "to make a better life" with their six-year-old son. But just over two minutes into an encounter with ICE agents she was fatally shot.