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For Racial Justice Protests, US Taps Tactical Border Squads

Associated Press

   WASHINGTON - They are the most highly trained members of the Border
   Patrol, agents who confront drug traffickers along the U.S.-Mexico
   border and track down dangerous fugitives in rugged terrain.

   One day this past week, they were in a far difference setting -- a city
   park in Portland, Oregon, looking for two people suspected of throwing
   rocks and bottles at officers guarding the downtown federal courthouse.

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