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We note with alarm the statements by Trump administration officials, including the Attorney General, slandering the victims, lying about the incidents, and ordering an investigation not of the perpetrators but of the victims.

They understand what a clear-eyed study of the border violence of 1910s shows: that impunity for agents and the denigration of entire communities can lead to mass state-sanctioned killing and the destruction of basic democratic and human rights.

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As Monica Martinez wrote, "through policing and enforcement—Indigenous, Asian, Mexican, & African people were cast as un-American, foreign, incapable of being citizens, and as a threat to the nation. Racist violence was used to subordinate & control populations who refused government intervention."

hey Arivaca! Spent some time there just a two years ago & those three fools the only residents supporting CBP, the rest of the town hates them & they're barred from the only bar & store in town. locals suspect CBP of if not actually working with armed militia thugs, then giving them a wink & nudge