If you are uncomfortable with what the Border Patrol is doing in Minneapolis, you are uncomfortable with the Border Patrol, full stop. Today, there are about 20,000 Border Patrol agents, compared to some 1,500 agents in the 1970s. Some 50 million vehicles are screened every year at internal Border Patrol checkpoints miles from a border. Border Patrol agents have killed Mexican teenagers on the Mexican side of the border. Still, at the time, the Border Patrol remained a relatively small group focused on racial policing near the Mexican border.