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Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is under fire for her chaotic management of the agency (Al Drago/Getty Images)

Why Kristi Noem wants ICE body cams

Amanda Marcotte
A life-and-death morality play is unfolding on the streets of Minneapolis and across the country as the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign intensifies. (Getty Images)

Vice signaling fuels Trump's appeal

Chauncey DeVega
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Commander at Large Gregory Bovino speaks during a news conference at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal on January 25, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The news conference comes after 37-year-old legal observer Alex Pretti was fatally shot during a confrontation with federal agents. The Trump administration has sent a reported 3,000 federal agents into the area, with more on the way, as they make a push to arrest undocumented immigrants in the region. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Bovino booted from Border Patrol role

Jelinda Montes
MINNEAPOLIS, UNITED STATES - JANUARY 21: US Customs and Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino stands in a gas station parking lot in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 21, 2026 (Photo by Madison Thorn/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Bovino: Border Patrol are real "victims"

Alex Galbraith
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DHS officials shot and killed VA ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minnesota this week. This is the second killing and third civilian shot in just the first few weeks of 2026 in Minneapolis. (Octavio JONES / AFP via Getty Images)

Minn. nurse dead, DHS story falls apart

CK Smith
MINNEAPOLIS, UNITED STATES - JANUARY 21: US Customs and Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino stands in a gas station parking lot in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 21, 2026 (Photo by Madison Thorn/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Bovino gasses Minneapolis protesters

Garrett Owen
Protesters in Chicago march against ICE and the National Guard on Oct. 25, 2025. ( KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump claims unchecked power over troops

Sabrina Haake
Firefighters from all over the Pacific Northwest have been descending on Washington to help battle the Bear Gulch wildfire. Until Border Patrol detained 2, bringing questions about whether emergency services trump political agendas. (David Ryder / Getty Images)

Two firefighters detained by ICE

CK Smith
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This photo shows a US Border Patrol patch on a border agent's uniform in McAllen, Texas, on January 15, 2019. (Suzanne Cordeiro/Afp/getty Images)

Video: Masked agents assault landscaper

Garrett Owen
Greg Abbott (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Abbott is pushing Texas to the brink

Brian Karem
A United States Border Patrol agent on horseback tries to stop a Haitian migrant from entering an encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande near the Acuna Del Rio International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas on September 19, 2021. (PAUL RATJE/AFP via Getty Images)

DHS investigating anti-migrant coins

Jon Skolnik
Immigration Detention Center (J. Emilio Flores/Corbis via Getty Images)

$1B for separated migrant families

Brett Bachman
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Facebook | U.S. Border Patrol agents (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Border Patrol agents got off too easy

Jon Skolnik
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, left, and a border patrol agent on horseback menacing a Haitian migrant. (Salon illustration via Fox News/Getty Images)

Abbott endorses border horsemen tactics

Brett Bachman
A United States Border Patrol agent on horseback uses the reins to try and stop a Haitian migrant from entering an encampment on the banks of the Rio Grande near the Acuna Del Rio International Bridge in Del Rio, Texas on September 19, 2021. (PAUL RATJE/AFP via Getty Images)

The myth of American "border security"

John Stoehr - Alternet
At the Ready (Forward Facing Films)

El Paso teens' Border Patrol career path

Gary M. Kramer
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Border Patrol Chief Carla Provost testifies during a House Homeland Security Committee Hearing on June 20, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Getty/Tom Brenner)

Border Patrol silent on Facebook group

A.C. Thompson - ProPublica
US Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents take part in a safety drill in the Anapra area in Sunland Park, New Mexico, United States on January 31, 2019. (Getty/Herika Martinez)

FBI looks into Border Patrol union funds

A.C. Thompson, Jeff Ernsthausen - ProPublica
U.S. Border Patrol agents detain undocumented immigrants caught near a section of privately-built border wall under construction on December 11, 2019 near Mission, Texas. The hardline immigration group We Build The Wall is funding construction of the wall on private land along the Rio Grande, which forms the border with Mexico. The group, led by former Trump strategist Stephen Bannon claims to have raised tens of millions of dollars in a GoFundMe drive to build sections of wall along stretches of the U.S. southwest border with Mexico. (John Moore/Getty Images)

So much for "small government"

Chauncey DeVega
US Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents take part in a safety drill in the Anapra area in Sunland Park, New Mexico, United States on January 31, 2019. (Getty/Herika Martinez)

"We were all told to do this"

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
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This photo shows a US Border Patrol patch on a border agent's uniform in McAllen, Texas, on January 15, 2019. (Suzanne Cordeiro/Afp/getty Images)

Another step toward "extreme vetting"

Melissa del Bosque - ProPublica

Official to hold party at Trump course

Brad Reed - Raw Story
Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbardo (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio/Paul Sakuma)

Trump's camps: Dark echoes of history

Chauncey DeVega
This photo shows a US Border Patrol patch on a border agent's uniform in McAllen, Texas, on January 15, 2019. (Suzanne Cordeiro/Afp/getty Images)

“Dirtbag,” “savages,” “subhuman”

A.C. Thompson - ProPublica
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