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Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States
Maybe someday
42
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Readers
67/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Reece Jones
Publisher:
Counterpoint
Date:
July 5, 2022
An look at the U.S. Border Patrol from its xenophobic founding to its assault on the Fourth Amendment in its quest to become a national police force.
What The Reviewers Say
Jones summons readers concerned about abuse of authority, accountability, human rights, and establishing justice to demand rethinking and revising the USBP’s expansive reach, with its legalized racial profiling and carved out exceptions to constitutional protections, along with the implications of an unchecked, heavily militarized police force operating throughout the U.S..
This eye-opening read concludes with signs of hope and suggestions for change..
This well-researched account is disturbing in its demonstration of the unwitting complicity between the American justice system and an organization born of racist violence. Jones also clearly shows the specter of increased—and sanctioned—police power to transform all places within the U.S. into anti-democratic borderlands.
... incisive.
