Nobody Is Protected
How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States

In…Almeida-Sanchez v. United States in 1973, Justice Thurgood Marshall, an icon of the civil rights movement and the first Black man to serve on the Supreme Court, asked a series of questions that pressed the government’s lawyers about the true extent of the Border Patrol’s authority on American......more

In the United States, people look overseas, puzzled at the numerous national police forces used by corrupt or ideological governments to control the citizenry or foist a reign of terror on everyone. This could never happen in the USA, as police are constitutionally local or state institutions. Feder......more

Nobody is Protected by Reece Jones is a much-needed examination of how the Border Patrol has become a major arm of the white supremacist enforcement forces, which now includes every police department in the country since they are now actually amateurs formed into paramilitary units with powers well......more

This book has numerous shortcomings. As a whole, analysis is lacking; instead there are data dumps of information culled from the Internet, with predictable accompanying partisan assertions. Misleadingly, the Border Patrol is treated as if it were an autonomous agency, entirely in control of its own......more

"Nobody is Protected" is a solid little piece of pop journalism that is light on analysis. It will not tell you anything new if you have even a passing familiarity of early 20th century US immigration laws. This book is an info dump and I honestly felt my time would have been better spent on Wikipedi......more