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    The latest migrant tool of resistance on the border is a video app

    by Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times Jun 03, 2018 5 minutes

    OWASSA ACRES, Texas - Taking video of police with cellphones or body cameras became so common after high-profile shootings of black men in Ferguson, Mo., Baltimore and Chicago that there's a word for it: "copwatching." But the practice never spread to the U.S.-Mexico border - until now.

    One evening last month, a dozen immigrants pulled folding chairs into a circle behind one of their trailers for training on the latest tools of resistance in the border communities known as colonias.

    Christina Rocha, an organizer with the community group La Union Del Pueblo Entero, or LUPE, told them about MigraCam, one of several cellphone apps designed specifically for people to film encounters with border authorities. It takes its name from the Spanish slang for U.S. immigration authorities.

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