“When you spend enough time out there, you start trying anything—Punjabi, Arabic, French—just to make small talk and connect,” says Border Patrol whistleblower Aaron Veckey, reflecting on his time working the border. “But some of these men wouldn’t crack a smile. It’s like they’d been told not to talk, told to harden their hearts. We are not their friends.”
He recalls encounters where groups would even hush each other, leaving him to wonder who trained them, and why.
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