#cbp — Public Fediverse posts
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#DHS spied on churches that mobilized to defend #Minnesota from #ICE and #CBP invasion. As always, they've been exposed by their own stupidity.
Remember how those protestors (and Don Lemon, who was reporting) got prosecuted for open, legal free speech in a #MAGA church? Those folks showed clearly who they were and what they did was unequivocally legal. And ICE got veeery pissy about it.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
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#CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to #Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up #romantic interests and track colleagues’ cell phones.
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#CBP Workers Allegedly Used Government Databases to Spy on Exes, Crushes, and Colleagues
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Smart comms: "DarkSky International does not take a position on border security policy; that question sits outside our mission and our expertise. Our position, set by our board, is simple: naturally dark places should remain dark."
https://darksky.org/news/darkskys-statement-protecting-dark-skies-in-the-big-bend-region/
#DarkSkies #BigBend #Border #BorderSecurity #UnitedStates #CBP
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US Customs and Border Patrol agents allegedly used govt databases to spy on exes, crushes, neighbors and colleagues.
If you don't subscribe to WIRED , I would. They are doing great work.
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@Nonilex I remember as a youth being told so many times not to point a gun at something I didn't intend to shoot.
And some of the 10 Commandments of shooting safety that seem especially applicable:
1 Always point the muzzle in a safe direction
3 Be sure of your target (and beyond your target)
5 Handle firearms and ammunition carefully
6 Know your safe zone of fire and stick to it
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Sociopaths
ICE equipping agents with gloves that deliver electric shocks
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The first frame of the video #CarolinaMolina posted across her social media accounts shows a masked #ICE agent pointing a gun at the camera.
#ReneeGood #AlexPretti #Trump #immigration #CBP #Sturmabteilung #StateSponsoredTerrorism #law #murder #ExtraJudicialKillings #Constitution #CivilRights #RightToProtest #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #MafiaState
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Porta-Potty supplier for border wall contractor Fisher Sand and Gravel found, hit with phone zap
On the morning of August 10, pro-migrant activists held a phone zap aimed at forcing portajohn supplier Stamback Services to terminate their business relationship with border wall contractor Fisher Sand and Gravel.
Message to Fisher here-you ARE shit, you don't GET to shit, not even piss.
This is an application of the "tertiary targetting model" that was successfully used to bankrupt former puppy-killing vivisector Huntington Life Sciences (HLS). Border walls don't get built without contractors. Contractors cannot operate without everything from tool rentals to portajohns.
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When you see reports of men "posing as ICE" raping women and children, maybe they're not just "posing as ICE", maybe they actually are ICE or CBP.
Here's a horrifying report by the Ohio Immigrant Alliance of 60 ICE and CBP Agents – that we know of – committing sex crimes, 2/3 of them against children.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p1eygf2XQHesa7H347uswjkWLzUni_d8aDlHvJjiHvg/edit?gid=0#gid=0#ICE #CBP #DHS #Crime #Violence #Politics #lawEnforcement #Women #Children #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #America
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Border wall contractor Fisher Industries office stormed and trashed in Tempe, Arizona
It appears this action was executed in the classic guerilla fashion: strike fast, hit hard, then disappear before the Enemy can get their shit together to respond.
From
https://saguaros.noblogs.org/post/2026/08/06/fishing-for-trouble/The following piece is an anonymously submitted reportback from an action against Fisher Industries in Tempe on August 5th.
The border is like an open wound, sliced through the desert with no consideration for its people or ecology. Folks watched in anger as the ancient cottonwoods of Lochiel were bulldozed, save for the last Grandmother Tree, which is protected by the courageous land defenders who climbed its branches. Fisher Industries is the contractor responsible for this wanton destruction in furtherance of colonial ecocide. In response, the anarchists and troublemakers of the metropolis decided to bring resistance to their offices, in solidarity.
A small group pulled up outside and quickly sprinted into their parking lot. Together, they stormed through the front door, invading the building. They chanted, “PROTECT THE TREES, NO BORDER WALL!” trashed their lobby, flyered and stickered their glass, telling them to quit their jobs and abandon their complicity in ecocide. While some acted inside, others outside attached a poster to the front door, issuing a notice of eviction by the people to the company. As a bewildered employee retreated back into an inaccessible part of the building, presumably to call for help, they exited as swiftly as they entered and hightailed it back home.
A message to Fisher Industries:
Your deplorable actions have not gone unnoticed, and you will be held accountable for your perpetration of ecocide in support of the fascist settler state. Cease your destruction of the land or face further repercussions.
To those in the tree and the camp, blocking the machinery of death with your bodies:
The people of so-called Phoenix stand in solidarity, and their hearts beat in time with yours. Stand strong.
Until the last border wall is torn down, the last tree is felled, and the land is once again free.
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Federal Contractors Begin #BorderWall Construction in #BigBend #NationalPark
via #CensoredNews
"New Mexico threatens to revoke licenses of contractors drilling water wells in drought-stricken #NewMexico. The #TohonoOodham Nation has filed for an injunction to halt the Trump administration from seizing its tribal land for the border wall in Arizona, pointing out that only Congress can diminish its land.
"Border Wall construction will destroy O'odham burial places and #SacredSites. Today, contractors are destroying the fragile tree life at Big Bend in Texas. Today is Day 10 of a tree sitter and supporters halting border wall contractors in Lochiel, Arizona, east of Nogales." -- Censored News
Federal Contractors Begin Border Construction in Big Bend National Park
“This is the most heinous attack on an American national park in generations,” said Laiken Jordahl, national public lands advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity.
By Center for Biological Diversity, Censored News, August 7, 2026
TERLINGUA, Texas— "Bulldozers broke ground today on border barrier and road construction in Big Bend National Park amid widespread bipartisan opposition. Videos shared with the Center for Biological Diversity show contractors plowing through native vegetation along the Rio Grande’s riparian corridor, with the iconic Santa Elena Canyon visible in the background.
" 'This is the most heinous attack on an American national park in generations,' said Laiken Jordahl, national public lands advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity.
" 'The administration is preparing to blast hundreds of miles of destructive roads through the wildest place left in Texas and cut off public access to the Rio Grande, all to enrich private contractors. Big Bend belongs to us all, and sacrificing it is a betrayal of every Texan and every American who believes our national parks should be protected. We won’t stop fighting this reckless assault on Big Bend National Park and America’s natural heritage until this destruction ends.'
"Department of Homeland Security contractors have stockpiled heavy equipment across the Big Bend region, where staging yards have been cleared, worker camps built and water wells drilled.
"According to Customs and Border Protection’s [ #CBP ] online map, the agency plans to build vehicle barriers and patrol roads across Big Bend National Park, including in rugged and remote areas such as Mariscal Mountain that would require extensive dynamite blasting. The plans also include building in remote walled canyons where no unauthorized vehicle crossings have been documented and where vehicles cannot access the border with Mexico.
"In May the Department of Homeland Security awarded a $1.7 billion contract for border work through the national park. In June the department waived dozens of #EnvironmentalLaws — including the National Park Service Organic Act, #EndangeredSpecies Act and National Wild and Scenic Rivers Act — to authorize construction of border barriers, roads and lighting through Big Bend National Park. It was the first time in U.S. history that the federal government had waived such a broad set of environmental protections for construction inside a national park.
"The Center sued the Department of Homeland Security, saying the waivers violated the Constitution by taking actions with vast economic and political consequences without congressional authorization. That case is ongoing."
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2026/08/federal-contractors-begin-border.html#USPol #CulturalGenocide #NoBorderWall #TrumpsBorderWall #ProtectTheSacred #EnvironmentalProtectionAct #EndangeredSpecies #RespectTheTreaties #AbolishICE #DefundDHS #MurderPatrol #BorderPatrol #IndigenousSacredSites #DepartmentOfHomelandInsecurity
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Yeah, I'm sure we just need to "reform" #ICE and improve training. /sarc
"NEW REPORT: Of 59 Criminal ICE and Border Patrol Agents, 85% Committed Sex Offenses, Nearly 2/3 Against Children"
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#GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US #Border Search
https://www.pcmag.com/news/grapheneos-defends-data-wiping-function-that-blocked-us-border-search
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A #GrapheneOS #Privacy Feature Became Basis for Federal Indictment
#SamuelTunick faces up to five years in prison after code he gave #CBP wiped his #phone.
Cause of all this was deletion of a Google Pixel #smartphone's contents during a border search, and the case itself sits in the Northern District of Georgia under case number 1:25-CR-499, before District Judge Eleanor L. Ross.
If Tunick is found guilty, the charge carries a fine, up to five years in prison, or both.
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While airport phone searches have been a thing for a while, multiple sources have reported they have risen to record levels under #Trump.
#CBP's own website, which tracks the three most recent years, shows 37k basic searches done in 2023, 42k done in 2024, and 50k done in 2025
https://www.cbp.gov/travel/cbp-search-authority/border-search-electronic-devices.
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So, while Sam #Tunick is a specific case where the feds were looking for a reason to get into his phone without a warrant, we need to talk about how much power #CBP / #ICE has accumulated since the passage of the #Patriot Act.
Under the "border search doctrine", ICE and CBP agents have broad power to search people or property at the border. Any search at the border is considered “reasonable,” meaning no warrant or probable cause is required.
That’s further complicated by the fact that the “border” can be broadly defined as a border-functioning location like an international airport or even within 100 miles of the U.S. border as drawn on a map.
Right now, about 2/3rds of Americans live within an area where ICE can search you without a warrant. While carve-outs for phones existed, the 4th circuit just took some of that protection away.
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In the past, #asylum seekers who entered
the #US legally or were never charged with an #immigration violation had the opportunity to apply for refuge in an office before a trained asylum officer. The officer could refer them to immigration court for removal proceedings if they were rejected, or allow them to continue proceedings & potentially get on a path to obtaining US citizenship.#law #DueProcess #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #MafiaState #autocracy
