Border Patrol agents in El Centro are producing fictionalized videos that portray migrants as violent criminals. The latest video features a narrative about undocumented migrants committing heinous crimes, aiming to evoke fear and portray urgency in border security. Bovino, a Border Patrol agent, defends these portrayals as rooted in reality, despite agency data showing that less than 1% of migrants encountered have criminal records. This raises concerns about misleading narratives and the implications for perceiving immigrant populations in the broader society.
Bovino is proud of the videos, and rejected the idea that the fictional portrayals are, in fact, fictional. "Those fictionalized accounts that you're talking about are really not fictionalized accounts."
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