{"id":52751,"date":"2019-08-03T14:42:25","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T20:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/?p=52751"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T15:46:43","slug":"an-arizona-border-patrol-agent-spent-6-years-arresting-immigrants-while-being-undocumented-himself-we-are-mitu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/an-arizona-border-patrol-agent-spent-6-years-arresting-immigrants-while-being-undocumented-himself-we-are-mitu\/","title":{"rendered":"An Arizona Border Patrol Agent Spent 6 Years Arresting Immigrants While Being Undocumented Himself &#8211; we are mit\u00fa"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A former U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona was sentenced this past month to one year of probation and fined $1,000 for lying about being a U.S. citizen. Marco A. De La Garza, 38, spent almost six years as a Border Patrol agent on America\u2019s southern border in Arizona. Officials found out De La Garza is a Mexican citizen during a background check in 2016 and when he applied for a U.S. passport in 2017. As well as being a Border Patrol agent, De La Garza served five years in the U.S. Navy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/wearemitu.com\/things-that-matter\/undocumented-border-patrol-officer-lied-about-his-legal-status\/?utm_campaign=UndocuBorderPatrol&amp;utm_source=MituFBO&amp;utm_term=0&amp;utm_referrer=FL&amp;utm_content=JavierRojas&amp;utm_medium=TI&amp;fbclid=IwAR2qR18IxPqbArkkggAVorYs1J1xIJkQp5MB0UrqkdBhU0kFVSAH3q01iMc\">we are mit\u00fa<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have so many complicated feels about this news story from We Are Mit\u00fa. I get a mental image of collaborators during the occupation of France, of slavery in the US, and of many other folks who shut the door behind themselves when they achieve a small measure of security or success. Our game, La Migra, imagined a situation similar to this one. It may be that this person is one of many in his situation. Border Patrol recruits from the regions in which it serves.<\/p>\n<p>related to: <a href=\"http:\/\/sudor.org\">http:\/\/sudor.org<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sudor.net\">http:\/\/sudor.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona was sentenced this past month to one year of probation and fined $1,000 for lying about being a U.S. citizen. Marco A. De La Garza, 38, spent almost six years as a Border Patrol agent on America\u2019s southern border in Arizona. Officials found out De La Garza [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,2,2082],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-52751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communities","category-games","category-tumblr-archive","tag-humane-games"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-dIP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52752,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52751\/revisions\/52752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}