"Arguably Serving as the Most Politicized and Abusive Branch of Federal Law Enforcement"

"The viciousness we are witnessing today at the border, directed at children and adults, has a long history, a fact that should in no way mitigate the extraordinary cruelty of Donald Trump. But it does suggest that if the U.S. is to climb out of the moral abyss it has fallen into, it has to think well beyond Trump's malice. It needs a historical reckoning with the true cause of the border crisis: the long, brutal history of border enforcement itself."

Greg Grandin at The Intercept discusses the history of the U.S. Border Patrol.