#mexican border

[thelostcanyon]

Along the trail to Coronado Peak looking into the state of Sonora in northern Mexico, Huachuca Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona.

[thashining]

I thought Don's white supremacy plan was supposed to take over the world.....not Radicalize it. ❤️🤍💚

[politijohn]

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[jangillman]

KAMALA’S $800M BORDER CONTRACT WENT TO A CEO WHO LATER PLEADED GUILTY TO BRIBING USAID OFFICIALS

Kamala Harris was handed one job as Vice President: find the “𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘴” of the record border crisis. Her answer was to hand the work to USAID, which awarded up to $𝟖𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐚𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲 to a joint venture to investigate why illegal immigrants wanted to come here.

That contract, finalized August 22, 2024, went to PMCG CollaborateUp JV LLC — a venture whose key operating partner was Vistant, led by Walter Barnes III. Barnes was not a random contractor. He later pleaded guilty to 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝 for steering over $544 million in USAID contracts to his firms through a decade-long corruption scheme (DOJ).

The scheme was methodical. Barnes and associates paid USAID contracting officer Roderick Watson approximately $1 million over roughly a decade — cash, laptops, NBA suite tickets, a country club wedding, down payments on two home mortgages. Watson steered contract after contract Barnes’s way (Daily Wire).

Here is where it becomes unconscionable. On November 9, 2023, USAID formally debarred Vistant and Barnes from federal contracting. And on 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐲, USAID notified PMCG CollaborateUp that it had been selected for the $800M root causes contract. A separate USAID contracting official called the award “𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦” and refused to sign it. Barnes’s company sued. A federal judge sent it back to USAID. USAID awarded it anyway on August 22, 2024.

Trump terminated the contract in February 2025 when he shut down USAID. In June 2025, the DOJ announced 𝐠𝐮𝐢𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬. The agency Democrats fought hardest to protect from DOGE was running a bribery operation the entire time Kamala was supposedly in charge of the border.

𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬 — 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥 $𝟖𝟎𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐫𝐲.

[untruetheband]

Instead of painting the wall on the border wto Mexico black, Trump could simply ruin the USA to such an extent that nobody wants to cross over anymore. Ah wait, he's already done that.

[theallmusiclover-blog]

Exposición fotográfica "El muro y el paisaje destruido" de Guillermo Arias.

Imágenes integrantes de la exposición del fotógrafo Guillermo Arias (Ciudad de México, 1975).

[acomradea]

Would you believe me if I told you there was an anime where a Mexican fights an American border militia in a mech suit?

[humanrightsupdates]

US: Border Deterrence Leads to Deaths, Disappearances

(Mexico City) – Border deterrence policies are driving increased deaths and disappearances of people migrating to the United States, said Human Rights Watch and the Colibrí Center for Human Rights in a web feature published today. The web feature, “‘Nothing but Bones:’ 30 Years of Deadly Deterrence at the US-Mexico Border,” features the stories of nine people who died or disappeared while trying to cross the southern US border and of their surviving family members.

US Border Patrol has reported about 10,000 deaths since 1994, when Prevention Through Deterrence was first implemented, but local rights groups at the border believe the number could be up to 80,000, with thousands more disappeared. Most of those dead are Indigenous, Brown, and Black people.

“The number of deaths is shocking, but each death represents a human being, a family, a community,” said Ari Sawyer, US border researcher at Human Rights Watch. “The US government should end deadly border deterrence policies and enact policies that protect human life.”

Prevention Through Deterrence and its progeny are a set of policies explicitly aimed at forcing irregular migrants onto “hostile terrain” and making crossing the US southern border so dangerous that people are discouraged from even trying. The policies have intentionally funneled migrants into crossing points where there are life-threatening conditions. Deterrence policies include punitive immigration policies and dangerous infrastructure, such as border walls, razor wire, armed soldiers, surveillance technology, and, in Texas, river buoys equipped with saw blades and other infrastructure.

Pushed back to Mexico, criminal groups and corrupt state officials systematically target migrants for kidnapping and violence, while missing person reports are rarely resolved and the human remains of migrants—in known mass graves—remain unidentified.

Former Border Patrol officials who witnessed the initial rollout of Prevention Through Deterrence told Human Rights Watch that the number of people they found dead immediately spiked when the US government began funneling migrants into more dangerous crossings. Predictably, continued border deterrence has driven the death toll higher in the US-Mexico borderlands

Over the past three decades, Prevention Through Deterrence and its progeny have proven ineffective at reducing migration and are harmful to both migrants and Border Patrol agents. Agents have said that being required to enforce deterrence policies inconsistent with their values has contributed to the Border Patrol’s record-high rates of suicide.

Former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden have used deterrence to target asylum seekers. The Biden administration, in close collaboration with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has blocked asylum at ports of entry and removed many non-Mexican migrants to Mexico. Documented deaths and disappearances have hit record highs during Biden’s term.