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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
— ProPublica (@propublica.org) 2026-02-01T21:10:18.072Z
malaise
(293,945 posts)Rec
dweller
(27,976 posts)I suspect theyll be deported to CECOT , citizen or no
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Swede
(38,680 posts)Trump cannot pardon state charges.
CaliforniaPeggy
(156,272 posts)BlueWaveNeverEnd
(13,319 posts)fierywoman
(8,528 posts)Duncan Grant
(8,894 posts)Holy shite, how do these guys sleep at night?
PittBlue
(4,738 posts)Ritabert
(2,122 posts)...and even with a balaclava on you could see the dark skin under the eyes typical of Hispanics or Indians.
Marcuse
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vapor2
(4,069 posts)Aviation Pro
(15,332 posts)They will be thrown under the bus, then the prison then the dumpster fire by President Miller et al before the end of the week.
Sucks to be them.
UTUSN
(77,267 posts)as others have said, the White Nationalists won't take a hit - next better thing than deportation and killing others is taking the heat off themselves and (in their mind) proving their core point (racism).
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Alfredo Mancillas was reportedly slumped in vehicle and covered in vomit when state troopers found him in St Paul
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WhiskeyGrinder
(26,625 posts)dem4decades
(13,837 posts)JI7
(93,352 posts)Srkdqltr
(9,493 posts)iemanja
(57,572 posts)Whose families were here centuries before Anglo-Americans? Thats what happens when a country steals half its territory from Spain and Mexico. Assuming someone has any particular immigration status because they have a Hispanic name is exactly what ICE does.
Srkdqltr
(9,493 posts)And Latino Spanish people are European, white.
iemanja
(57,572 posts)What makes you think its any different when directed toward Border Agents?
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surfered
(12,236 posts)They cant get those
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erronis
(23,019 posts)Last edited Sun Feb 1, 2026, 07:18 PM - Edit history (1)
How many had names switched by immigration to something looking more "English"?
How many are descendants of families that have intertwined with other cultures for centuries?
And it is an insult to anyone with an "ethnic" name that has served this country in many ways.
(Edited to remove an unnecessary defamatory statement.)
iemanja
(57,572 posts)Last edited Mon Feb 2, 2026, 12:03 AM - Edit history (1)
but I recd your post for the rest.
BTW, those poor white trash are my ancestors on my fathers side. The one who first came over was an indentured servant. Servants, like the enslaved, were not trash because of their legal status, anymore than the working poor today are trash.
erronis
(23,019 posts)iemanja
(57,572 posts)I live in south Texas, which was part of Mexico until the Mexican American war. An old saying here is, "A Gringo is anyone born north of the Nueces River." Another says, "We didn't cross the border. The border crossed us."
Torchlight
(6,473 posts)Good luck.
LudwigPastorius
(14,352 posts)It's going to be tough in prison for former cops.

Cha
(317,588 posts)SHITHEADS
FRY IN HELL
Jilly_in_VA
(14,016 posts)For someone named JESUS to be a murderer. I hope his mother is proud.
And BTW, where are these guys? I bet they are not hiding out in Mar-a-Lardo like Jonathan Ross. Hand 'em over, CBP. NOW!
Ritabert
(2,122 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(15,090 posts)Along with Johnathan Ross.
dalton99a
(92,747 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(26,625 posts)GusBob
(8,183 posts)Do you that maybe thats where they learned the trade ?
The Devils highway is a bad place to get trained
WhiskeyGrinder
(26,625 posts)tblue37
(68,333 posts)flvegan
(65,924 posts)Takket
(23,541 posts)only question is if the next AG will indict or will drumpf pardon them
JI7
(93,352 posts)bluestarone
(21,586 posts)I trust none of this for now. They just throw 2 names out there? It would not surprise me in the least that the REAL killers are still working there. It's just to fast to trust these FUCKERS.
Ritabert
(2,122 posts)Very distinctive.
bluestarone
(21,586 posts)I just cannot believe them, because they lie lie lie.
Ritabert
(2,122 posts)...and that wasn't the one I saw. His name was Jesus, go figure.
bluestarone
(21,586 posts)If it came from ICE boss's i will never believe it. I fear the true killers will not be found.
Ritabert
(2,122 posts)leftyladyfrommo
(19,964 posts)What kind of person can execute someone and then just walk away like it was no big
deal. Those guys are really bad dudes that are coming in for the high salaries.
iemanja
(57,572 posts)Ignoring the fact that families in the border region were here centuries before Anglo-Americans. Its not the agents who are exposed.
Takket
(23,541 posts)This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
— hannah gais (@hannahgais.bsky.social) 2026-02-01T22:02:07.150Z
it ain't the lack of training (though that is a problem as well). These organizations are rotten to the core and no one in them is employable.
Ritabert
(2,122 posts)....for a person with brown skin to be hunting people with brown skin. If they're in civvies going to the store they could be nabbed themselves.
LuvLoogie
(8,622 posts)does not require white skin. Having white skin will not protect you from the enforcement of white supremacy.
That said, Spanish surnames are European surnames. There are white Hispanics with little to no indigenous DNA. And there is plenty of right-wing, toxic masculinity to go around.
johnp3907
(4,245 posts)Ritabert
(2,122 posts)...plus they're being paid.
haele
(15,174 posts)Jobs for combat only vets, especially if they only did 3 and out, or 4 and out, who basically just graduated HS and had minimal skills other than being bi-lingual are the type DHS was hiring for ICE and CBP Enforcement.
Same attitude with local sheriff's departments all over the SW.
They didn't need people with smarts or integrity, they just needed people who could look tough, speak Spanish, and follow orders.
And the Hispanic guys end up trained to view immigrants the same as the White Nationalist bubbas - the current asylum seekers and border crossers are criminal invaders doing it the wrong way.
Not like hard working Mama and Papa, Abuelita and Abuelo, or the Tios and Tias did back before the last major mass Amnesty programs during the Reagan and Bush 41 era...because, of course after Gingrich and Faux News started popularizing the GOP agenda, any Democrats proposing mass Amnesty means they're going to let cartel and gang members in.
MichMan
(16,845 posts)"Jobs for combat only vets, especially if they only did 3 and out, or 4 and out, who basically just graduated HS and had minimal skills other than being bi-lingual are the type DHS was hiring for ICE and CBP Enforcement."
haele
(15,174 posts)But my comments do still stand for a lot of BCP over the years in this border town. It's the excuse many have used to others in their communities.
IcyPeas
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Ms. Toad
(38,386 posts)IcyPeas
(25,111 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,784 posts)How sure are we that these records are accurate?
It could be those were just agents they wanted to get rid of.
Scrivener7
(58,784 posts)is the Nazi leader of a rogue militia that includes Latino men who are killing protestors standing up for Latino immigrants.
I know this has something to teach us, but I can't for the life of me figure out what it is.
Cirsium
(3,578 posts)Very disturbing.
I watched a video yesterday of white MAGA "trad wife" women saying that the greatest threat the country faces comes from "liberal white women."
Scrivener7
(58,784 posts)At least the women in the most conservative circles.
Cirsium
(3,578 posts)A common use of this term refers to the ways in which, often unconsciously, people might identify with their aggressors through mimicry. For example, a child victim of verbal abuse who becomes verbally abusive toward others might be imitating the behaviors he was subjected to, as an attempt to experience a sense of safety (other defense mechanisms, such as displacement, might also be at play). Identification with the aggressor is, in this way, understood as a form of imitation of behaviors or ways of being.
Ferenczi understood identification with the aggressor differently. He observed that many victims of childhood sexual abuse experienced helplessness and anxiety in the relationship with their abusers, to the point of [subordinating] themselves like automata to the will of the aggressor, to divine each one of his desires and to gratify these; completely oblivious to themselves they identify themselves with the aggressor (Ferenczi, 1949). As psychoanalyst Jay Frankel (2002) puts it, we stop being ourselves and transform ourselves into someone elses image of us. To be safe from abuse, the child needs to learn what is expected of them and become who the adult needs them to be, by identifying with the adults needs, expectations, demands, and desires.
This is not a conscious process, a decision, or a choice the child makes. The process of identification is unconscious and automatic, getting reinforced with each interaction, particularly when no other adult is available to witness, protect, or help us make sense of the experience, or when the abuse is denied, minimized, or invalidated. The child will develop an acute sensibility to other peoples moods, anticipate others demands and expectations, and accommodate their own self to what they consciously or unconsciously perceive that the aggressor requires from them.
"Identifying" with the adults around us is not necessarily a bad thing and, in fact, can be very important in the development of our personality and sense of self. However, psychoanalyst and trauma expert Elizabeth Howell (2014) notes that Ferenczi does not talk about healthy identification that supports the childs developing identity. Instead, traumatic identification with the aggressor is a response to events that cannot be assimilated into narrative memory but, instead, remain unlinked and dissociated.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/relationships-healing-relationships/202401/identification-with-the-aggressor-and-complex
erronis
(23,019 posts)B.See
(7,963 posts)there will ALWAYS be those from every minority who'll seek to gain acceptance, protection, even profit, from embracing or endorsing an ideology of racism and hate. That kind of s--- is as old as the slave trade.
Scrivener7
(58,784 posts)B.See
(7,963 posts)about the cause, and not nearly as much as the effect.
Cirsium
(3,578 posts)Again and again when a LEO is identified and brought to justice it is so rarely Anglo men even though the majority of the perpetrators are Anglo men. No, it will be women, or Latinos, or African Americans.
Escape
(400 posts)over and over and over and over again. Until they are no longer safe ANYWHERE outside a federal prison!
JoseBalow
(9,255 posts)Escape
(400 posts)struggle4progress
(125,656 posts)paleotn
(21,811 posts)Or is this a DHS leak meant to cover for the actual murderers. Granted, there's more than enough fascism in the Latino community, but this just seems a little too convenient for me.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143609580#post8
I'll hold judgement until more is known. When the true murderers are doxed, go to work on them.
2na fisherman
(270 posts)How may Spanish-speaking rogue CBP agents are accustomed to committing crimes against Latinos along the Mexican border? They often patrol in small groups in uninhabited areas. And they probably operate under minimal supervision, especially at night. So some may feel they can get away with drug crimes, sex crimes and even murder under color of law. Banditos with badges. Some have already been busted for things like this. ICE and CBP must be completely overhauled and all rogue agents must be screened out ASAP. And there must be constant oversight of such agencies to prevent the recruitment and fostering of a work culture which supports goon squads rather than peace officers.
LeftInTX
(34,027 posts)Their idea of a protest is a truck caravan.
And yes, minimal supervision. Since they target immigrants who are more than likely here illegally, and are often trafficking something or other, no one seems to give a fuck if one of them dies.
Mysterian
(6,239 posts)when the rule of law is re-established in the USA.
Norrrm
(4,329 posts)usonian
(24,013 posts)IN ARGENTINA.
Give Peace A Chance
(153 posts)These are the people trump promised to DEPORT!
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