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Jenn Budd, Border Patrol agent turned migrant activist, has deep Alabama roots Updated Feb 19, 2021; Posted Feb 19, 2021 Deported U.S. Vietnam veteran Ruben Robles, 70, left, shows the wrist band he made for migrant rights activist Jenn Budd who works with deported U.S. veterans at Friendship Park in Tijuana on June 16, 2019. Budd, a former senior border patrol officer with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, now works with veterans who have been deported to Mexico and are now living in Tijuana. She also helps immigrants, asylum seekers and deportees in San Diego and Tijuana. Budd appre...

Print The migrant girl was around 6 years old, dehydrated, fluish and despondent. Her head looked too big for her body — a sign of malnutrition — and she had lice in her hair. The girl had spent two weeks outdoors held at the sunbaked Border Patrol detention center in El Paso with her asylum-seeking family before being brought to a migrant shelter in San Diego. That’s where Jenn Budd found her in the summer of 2018, and she needed serious medical intervention. For the record: 11:43 AM, Feb. 14, 2021An earlier version of this story incorrectly said the migrant girl at the shelter had Ly...