Agents of Chaos: Unpacking the Actions of Border Patrol Agents Across US

Agents of Chaos: Unpacking the Actions of Border Patrol Agents Across US

This investigation is part of a collaboration between Bellingcat, Evident Media and CalMatters. You can watch Evident’s investigative video here, and read CalMatters’ report here. In early January 2025, a gardener named Ernesto Campos was pulled over by Border Patrol agents in the city of Bakersfield, California.  The agents were a long way from home: Bakersfield is over 240 miles (386km) from the US border with Mexico. They were there as part o…

Agents of Chaos: Border Patrol’s year of unchecked force

Border Patrol agents have been roving from city to city over the last 15 months, far from their home bases in California and elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border, engaged in an unprecedented mass deportation campaign.  A collaboration between CalMatters, Evident Media and Bellingcat has tracked these agents, documenting their tactics on the ground and through mountains of video footage, since their first proof-of-concept raid in Bakersfield in…