Dorien Ediger-Seto
@dorienes.bsky.social
Immigration lawyer and scholar, teaching at NYU Law and CUNY Law. Thoughts and feelings about deportation law, prisons, borders, amateur ceramics, cats, etc. All views my own.
And on, and on, and on...
Hold CBP Accountable
Stopping U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Abuse
holdcbpaccountable.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
And on, and on, and on...
And, then, this story about how the Supreme Court refused to hold the agents accountable: tucson.com/news/arizona...
Ruling could halt lawsuit filed by family of teen killed in Nogales by border agent
In a 5-4 decision Tuesday, the justices threw out claims filed by the family of 15-year-old boy who was shot and killed from across the border by an El Paso
tucson.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
And, then, this story about how the Supreme Court refused to hold the agents accountable: tucson.com/news/arizona...
And this story about how a different Border Patrol agent shot and killed a 15 year old named Sergio Adrian Hernandez, also across the wall: www.southernborder.org/sergio_adria...
Sergio Adrian Hernandez-Guereca
www.southernborder.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
And this story about how a different Border Patrol agent shot and killed a 15 year old named Sergio Adrian Hernandez, also across the wall: www.southernborder.org/sergio_adria...
Then, there is this story of how a Border Patrol agent named Lonnie Schwartz shot across the U.S. Mexico border wall into Mexico, and killed a 16 year old boy named Jose Antonio Rodriguez, while he was a few blocks from his home in Nogales, Sonora: www.kinoborderinitiative.org/we-lament-10...
We lament 10 years of justice denied for José Antonio Elena Rodríguez - Kino Border Initiative
Injustice is felt at the human level. When we talk about our priorities and values – like justice, equity, and policy change, they can seem like lofty or nebulous ideas. The reality couldn’t be furthe...
www.kinoborderinitiative.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Then, there is this story of how a Border Patrol agent named Lonnie Schwartz shot across the U.S. Mexico border wall into Mexico, and killed a 16 year old boy named Jose Antonio Rodriguez, while he was a few blocks from his home in Nogales, Sonora: www.kinoborderinitiative.org/we-lament-10...
And these, from 2024, by @florenceproject.bsky.social and @immdef.bsky.social, also on child abuse by the Border Patrol: firrp.org/florence-pro...
Immigration Advocates File Complaints Protesting the Treatment of Children in CBP Custody | Florence Project
Florence Project and Immigrant Defenders Release Alarming New Reports Detailing Abuse of Unaccompanied Immigrant Children in Border Patrol Custody The two organizations filed complaints with the U.S....
firrp.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
And these, from 2024, by @florenceproject.bsky.social and @immdef.bsky.social, also on child abuse by the Border Patrol: firrp.org/florence-pro...
Along with this additional report by the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties: www.aclu.org/press-releas...
ACLU Obtains Documents Showing Widespread Abuse of Child Immigrants in U.S. Custody | American Civil Liberties Union
New Report Is Based on Thousands of Government Documents Obtained Through the Freedom of Information Act That Detail Horrific Stories
www.aclu.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Along with this additional report by the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties: www.aclu.org/press-releas...
This link is a whole compilation of reports and government documents on the Border Patrol's abuse of children, specifically: www.aclu-sdic.org/government-d...
Government documents show Customs & Border Protection Officials Have Abused Migrant Children - ACLU of San Diego
Government documents show Customs & Border Protection Officials Have Abused Migrant Children In 2014, the ACLU Border Litigation Project and partner organizations filed an administrative complaint wit...
www.aclu-sdic.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
This link is a whole compilation of reports and government documents on the Border Patrol's abuse of children, specifically: www.aclu-sdic.org/government-d...
This one by @wola-org.bsky.social and the Kino Border Initiative: www.wola.org/analysis/int...
Introduction: Abuses at the U.S.- Mexico Border: How To Address Failures and Protect Rights - WOLA
Contents Executive Summary Introduction I. Abuse by CBP and Border Patrol: two accountability pathways II. The DHS accountability process: Four...
www.wola.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
This one by @wola-org.bsky.social and the Kino Border Initiative: www.wola.org/analysis/int...
This one by @hrw.org: www.hrw.org/report/2021/...
“They Treat You Like You Are Worthless”
The 26-page report, “‘They Treat You Like You Are Worthless’: Internal DHS Reports of Abuses by US Border Officials,” details internal reports made by asylum officers within US Citizenship and Immigra...
www.hrw.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
This one by @hrw.org: www.hrw.org/report/2021/...
This report by @acluaz.bsky.social: www.acluaz.org/record-abuse/
Record of Abuse - ACLU of Arizona
Record of Abuse: Lawlessness and Impunity in Border Patrol's Interior Enforcement Operations Record of Abuse: Lawlessness and Impunity in Border Patrol's Interior Enforcement Operations Government rec...
www.acluaz.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
This report by @acluaz.bsky.social: www.acluaz.org/record-abuse/
Then there is this website documenting Border Patrol-involved deaths from 2010 until May, 2025, compiled by the Southern Border Communities Coalition: www.southernborder.org/deaths_by_bo...
Fatal Encounters with CBP
www.southernborder.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Then there is this website documenting Border Patrol-involved deaths from 2010 until May, 2025, compiled by the Southern Border Communities Coalition: www.southernborder.org/deaths_by_bo...
Along with other documentation by @nomoredeaths.bsky.social ranging from 2008-2016: nomoredeaths.org/abuse-docume...
Abuse documentation
Blog Published reports: Disappeared (2016–) Shakedown (2014) Post-deportation Health (2012) A Culture of Cruelty (2011) Crossing the Line (2008) Resources: Fact sheets Photos. Videos
nomoredeaths.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Along with other documentation by @nomoredeaths.bsky.social ranging from 2008-2016: nomoredeaths.org/abuse-docume...
The reports themselves are here: www.thedisappearedreport.org
Home
“As crimes pile up, they become invisible.”
www.thedisappearedreport.org
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
The reports themselves are here: www.thedisappearedreport.org
You might start here, with video from @nomoredeaths.bsky.social and the Coalicion de Derechos Humanos based on their decades of work documenting the Border Patrol’s intentionally deadly enforcement tactics: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7A9...
Disappeared: How U.S. Border Enforcement Agencies are Fueling a Missing Person's Crisis
YouTube video by No More Deaths
www.youtube.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
You might start here, with video from @nomoredeaths.bsky.social and the Coalicion de Derechos Humanos based on their decades of work documenting the Border Patrol’s intentionally deadly enforcement tactics: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7A9...
But there is also a rich and disturbing collection of reports by organizers, regular citizens, lawyers, and journalists.
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
But there is also a rich and disturbing collection of reports by organizers, regular citizens, lawyers, and journalists.
This list is by no means comprehensive, just a sampling. For current borderlands context by amazing journalists @mdelbosque.bsky.social and @memomiller.bsky.social who have been embedded in this work for years, I highly recommend @theborderchronicle.bsky.social.
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
This list is by no means comprehensive, just a sampling. For current borderlands context by amazing journalists @mdelbosque.bsky.social and @memomiller.bsky.social who have been embedded in this work for years, I highly recommend @theborderchronicle.bsky.social.
To all of the folks out on the streets, documenting and standing up in this moment, I am so grateful and inspired. But I also want to lift up some of the work, especially that of documentation, that has come before, because there is a legacy here.
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
To all of the folks out on the streets, documenting and standing up in this moment, I am so grateful and inspired. But I also want to lift up some of the work, especially that of documentation, that has come before, because there is a legacy here.
They've been honed by official training, by policy, by a culture of law enforcement where cruelty is the point, and by a wholesale failure of accountability for abuse. The Border Patrol thrives on terror.
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
They've been honed by official training, by policy, by a culture of law enforcement where cruelty is the point, and by a wholesale failure of accountability for abuse. The Border Patrol thrives on terror.
The scale of the terror in Minneapolis right now might be unprecedented. But I don't think it minimizes that horror or this moment to note that the *tactics* are not new. They’ve been honed in the darkness of detention centers, in the desert, along the river, for years.
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
The scale of the terror in Minneapolis right now might be unprecedented. But I don't think it minimizes that horror or this moment to note that the *tactics* are not new. They’ve been honed in the darkness of detention centers, in the desert, along the river, for years.
It is a hurt for all of the folks, adults and children alike, who we have known and witnessed being terrorized by the #BorderPatrol for so long, and with so little attention, even as it feels like we shouted from the rooftops about it.
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
It is a hurt for all of the folks, adults and children alike, who we have known and witnessed being terrorized by the #BorderPatrol for so long, and with so little attention, even as it feels like we shouted from the rooftops about it.
I know I’m not the only person who has lived and worked in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands whose heart is hurting for Alex Pretti, for Renee Good, for their loved ones and families, but for whom that hurt is a familiar one.
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
I know I’m not the only person who has lived and worked in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands whose heart is hurting for Alex Pretti, for Renee Good, for their loved ones and families, but for whom that hurt is a familiar one.
I was 20, basically a kid myself. Most of the kids were indigenous. The @florenceproject.bsky.social, where I interned, filed complaints with DHS’ oversight office, the Office of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties. As far as I know, they didn’t go anywhere.
Most of the kids were deported, eventually.
Most of the kids were deported, eventually.
January 25, 2026 at 4:30 AM
I was 20, basically a kid myself. Most of the kids were indigenous. The @florenceproject.bsky.social, where I interned, filed complaints with DHS’ oversight office, the Office of Civil Rights & Civil Liberties. As far as I know, they didn’t go anywhere.
Most of the kids were deported, eventually.
Most of the kids were deported, eventually.