To paint the Border Patrol as a rescue operation is also to gloss over a pervasive culture of callousness and destruction: while I indeed worked alongside some deeply compassionate and honorable agents, I also witnessed coworkers scatter migrant groups in remote areas and destroy their water supplies without ever being held to account. (These practices have been extensively documented by humanitarian groups and recorded in “The Disappeared Report” compiled by No More Deaths and La Coalición de Derechos Humanos.)
