Conner Martinez is a graduate student in political science at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
The Border Patrol has largely avoided the scrutiny that police have come under in recent years. That should change: the Border Patrol’s powers are increasingly authoritarian, with few legal checks, and expanding throughout the United States.
Arizona governor Doug Ducey allowed pressure from Donald Trump and business leaders in the state to pressure him into prematurely reopening the state. Now the state is suffering the worst coronavirus numbers in the entire world.