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Today down in El Paso I witnessed one of the wildest scenes I’ve ever seen in my time covering the border. National Guard troops were attempting to ‘push back’ male migrants hoping to be admitted into the U.S. when the crowd grew impatient and surged forward, tearing down razor wire and fences and overwhelming the Texas soldiers standing guard.
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Copyright James Breeden for the New York Post
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Come on, @elonmusk. There must be something that can be done to protect original content creators on this platform. My video from yesterday has been ripped off and stolen by huge accounts with millions of views, and small freelance journalists like myself don’t benefit from our hard work.
Today down in El Paso I witnessed one of the wildest scenes I’ve ever seen in my time covering the border. National Guard troops were attempting to ‘push back’ male migrants hoping to be admitted into the U.S. when the crowd grew impatient and surged forward, tearing down razor wire and fences and overwhelming the Texas soldiers standing guard.
For all licensing enquiries please contact The Mega Agency.
Copyright James Breeden for the New York Post
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My amazing little 4-year-old niece has been given a last-minute date for heart surgery next week in Bristol (UK). She will be in hospital for at least 2 weeks & it's a long way from home. My sister usually stays in the Ronald McDonald house, AirBnB etc but these are closed. (1/2)
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From Texas to Wembley, we’re on our way!
Can’t wait to take over London with the massive Green Army and our @ArgyleUsa contingent. And hopefully run into @tatsumakibones #PAFC #greenarmy #argyle @Argyle #PapaJohnsTrophy #EFL
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WOW. Can't believe the response. Amazing people! Going to start replying to everyone who's so kindly offered help. Just quickly - this will be my niece’s 3rd open heart surgery & our whole family is forever thankful to the team at Bristol Children's Hospital #UHBristol @uhbwNHS
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Ball completely out of play before Coventry’s goal. As usual shocking refereeing in the EFL #pafc
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SO if anyone out there knows of a flat in Bristol where mum & dad can swap out bedside duties and get some rest please contact me and I'll rent it from you. They have a 'permitted purposes' letter from the hospital, if required. From Tuesday next week 🙏 (2/2)
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Well done for calling this out. It’s a really bad problem - and you’re at a large TV network with the backing that brings. For us independent freelancers having all our work ripped off and stolen, there’s nobody who has our backs.
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One minute this guy’s an Arsenal player and the next day he’s stood on top of a Ford Galaxy in Plymouth. Life comes at you fast.
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Headed back to Texas, slightly sore and bruised, after an unforgettable weekend in Plymouth.
I still can’t quite believe what this amazing team has achieved in an absolutely remarkable promotion campaign.
And a chance to top it all as champions this weekend.
COYGs #pafc
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If you’re going to steal my video for clicks, at least attribute it to me.
JUST IN: El Paso judge rules on Easter Sunday that illegals involved in the riot at the Southern Border where National Guard troops were assaulted, must be released from jail.
Insanity.
Magistrate Judge Humberto Acosta made the announcement on Sunday, blasting the El Paso District Attorney's Office for "not being ready" with detention hearings.
"It is the ruling of the court is that all the rioting participation cases will be released on their own recognizance," Acosta said.
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Pretty crazy day at work when the Governor of Texas responds to your video
About the surge of illegal immigrants in El Paso:
The TX National Guard & Dept. of Public Safety quickly regained control & are redoubling the razor wire barriers.
DPS is instructed to arrest every illegal immigrant involved for criminal trespass & destruction of property.
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Totality during the 2024 Great American Eclipse, as seen at the Dallas Zoo in Dallas, Texas, USA.
Amazingly lucky that the clouds broke right as this happened.
#Eclipse #Eclipse2024
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It doesn’t make a difference, they crop it out and still use it anyway. The point is there are copyright laws and you can’t just take what you like.
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And if you live and marry abroad you’re effectively exiled from the UK, unless you’re prepared to return to the UK without your family and try to find a job paying over that amount for months / years.
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🤝 @JennieSTaer
Working the border is always about access. It was only thanks to you that we were there in the first place.
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Good to see so many photographers flocking to Twitter from IG. I’ve been here a while but thought I’d introduce myself (I could use some follows!) I’m a freelance photographer based in Texas, and this year I’ve mostly been covering the southern border with Mexico.
#Immigration
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As a freelance I love it when a pitch comes together like this one did. Working up an idea, speaking to the parties involved, consider the audience and outlet it best fits, and crucially approach editors who trust and have faith in you. Thanks @pixed @Telegraph @40commando
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Watching @Only1Argyle live on my flight, with the new multi-camera setup. Amazing watching replays of our 2 goals so far from different angles - what a brilliant setup and service for a L2 club. Thanks @SimonHallett!
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iPhone shot of the start of the total solar eclipse here in Dallas, Texas. Luckily we’re getting some breaks in the cloud with blue skies!
#Eclipse #Eclipse2024 #texas
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Thank-you, Ashley.
The insane footage of the the migrant stampede at the border that has been shamelessly ripped by accounts here is the amazing journalistic work of @JamesBreeden
If you are a journalist who wants attribution, watermark your content. Good content will ALWAYS get stolen and redistributed.
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UK-bound & really excited to visit the new Mayflower Grandstand at Home Park and see @Only1Argyle take on Crawley Town #PAFC
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Amazing as a fan to be able to watch Argyle live after 10 years of living in the US and only getting radio commentary #PAFC @Only1Argyle
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Now available online, @AlHannaford and my story about mass shooters and what could have stopped them, for @BritishGQ gq-magazine.co.uk/article/ma…
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Can't imagine bill if I was still with @ATT. Used 9GB of data in Brazil. Luckily with @TMobile it was completely free. Thanks @JohnLegere!
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Delighted with the opener in September’s British GQ, for @AlHannaford and my latest work together, about mass shooters in America. Paul Devoe, 54, awaits execution at the Allan B Polunsky Unit in Texas.
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Wrapped up a week on the northern bank of the Rio Grande in Del Rio, Texas, documenting mostly Venezuelan migrants arriving at the U.S. border for @reuterspictures
#Borderlands #Texas #migrants #Venezuela
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Jim Leavelle, the Dallas detective who was handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald was shot by Jack Ruby, has died at 99. I photographed him here in 2013. RIP, Jim.
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Honored to have this photograph included in the @TheBPPA #Assignments exhibition at Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf in London this weekend. Shot on assignment for @BritishGQ, Paul Devoe sits on death row in Texas after shooting dead six people in 2007.
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Really appreciate it Tom! I don’t have Facebook but everyone’s been so overwhelmingly kind and generous that I think I should have somewhere sorted for my sister. Thank-you so much mate.
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I’m absolutely devastated to hear my good friend and former colleague Tristan Nichols has passed away. My heart bleeds for his wife and 4-month-old daughter. instagram.com/p/Bo7hVoulE6j/
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Central American migrants from El Salvador wade to the bank of the Rio Grande river after crossing from Mexico on an inflatable raft with coyotes.
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The shooters: new work in British GQ, out in print today. @alhannaford and my 10-page feature on mass shootings in America. “I wrote to each of them and asked this: what could have stopped you?” Thank-you @BritishGQ
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Especially lately. I’d almost given up on Twitter completely in the last few weeks. Helen, it’s not letting me DM you. I think maybe you have to follow me?
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Amazing Ben and much appreciated. I won’t be able to come back to the UK myself because of the quarantine but I look forward to having a beer with you next time I’m back under normal circumstances. Thank-you.
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Proud to have worked on this special climate issue of @DailyMirror - a real privilege to do this for work.
Exhausted polar bears cling to life on thawing ice as they face extinction #MirrorClimateCrisis
mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ex…
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Went for my second dose of freedom at Fair Park in Dallas and found out that remarkably, at virtually the same moment, my sister had her second dose of the same vaccine 4707 miles away across the Atlantic in Plymouth, England. What a truly amazing global effort.
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Gutted #PAFC legend Paul Wotton left the club under the circumstances he did, nobody would want success for Argyle more than this man. Many great memories photographing his playing days in the Championship.
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*UPDATE* My niece is doing amazing 9-days post surgery thanks to all the incredible staff at Bristol Children's Hospital. Tubes are out, scars are healing and she has a smile on her face. @thegrandappeal sorted my sister out with accommodation - we cannot thank everyone enough!
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The search for missing Gabby Petito reached a heartbreaking conclusion today as a body was found that matches her description. Multiple agencies scoured the backcountry surrounding the Spread Creek dispersed camping area just outside the Grand Teton National Park.
#gabbypettito
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This is insane. This is the exact helicopter - N204TX - that I recently spent several days and nights in with the Texas DPS Aircraft Operations Division in El Paso. So relieved to hear everyone walked away from this 🙏
“Everyone walked away…”
Collective sigh of relief from law enforcement in Kinney County after a TX DPS chopper went down in the area.
📸 via sources
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An asylum-seeking migrant family from Venezuela are assisted by Texas State Trooper Nubia Rodriguez after wading across the Rio Grande river into the United States from Mexico in Del Rio, Texas, May 7, 2021.
#migrants #Venezuela #borderlands #riogrande
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Like other freelance photographers, I'm trying not to think about how grim it's looking for work right now, so here's a map showing places I can reach in a day's drive:
- Kansas City
- Oklahoma City
- Austin
- San Antonio
- Houston
- New Orleans
- Memphis
- And obviously, Dallas
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Migrants, predominantly from Venezuela, cross the Rio Grande river from Mexico into the United States and climb up onto the riverbank in Eagle Pass, Texas. National Guard troops were preventing the migrants from passing through the razor wire.
#Border #Immigration #Migrantes
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Wonderful Machine interviewed me for their blog about my recent work for British GQ, Charming Killers: James Breeden Meets Murderous Mafiosos for GQ
wonderfulmachine.com/blog/ch…
@wonderflmachine @AlHannaford
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I’ve been looking at this photo by @TomFoxPhoto all day and I’m still completely in awe of his composure under fire to make this image. Incredible bravery.
DMN staff photographer @TomFoxPhoto captured this image shortly before a gunman opened fire on the Earle Cabell Federal Building Monday morning in downtown Dallas. Fox was waiting to enter the building to cover a trial when the attack took place. bit.ly/2XofZ0q
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A pleasure spending a few days with @40commando in the Mojave Desert watching all the new elements of the Commando Force concept come together for the first time in a major exercise.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/11…
#royalmarines
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Statement from the White House on our video from El Paso yesterday:
NEW: A White House spokesperson issued this statement to FOX regarding the El Paso violent migrant video:
“We are grateful for Border Patrol’s quick work to get the situation under control and apprehend the migrants. When the former President told Congressional Republicans to block the bipartisan border security agreement – he said to blame him for it. Well he got his wish, and the result was chaos after Governor Abbott’s Operational Lone Star and razorwire were overrun yesterday. While we cannot comment on individual cases, anyone who does not have a legal basis to remain in the United States is promptly removed.”
@FoxNews
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She is brilliant. This is her third heart op now, and you’d never know it. Strongest little girl I know, keeps her two older brothers in check. Glad you are going strong, amazing what these doctors do.
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Encourage everyone who can to visit the BPPA Assignments exhibition in London. Always incredible work.
Save the date! The #Assignments2021 exhibition opens August 27th. #thebppa
thebppa.com/assignments-2021…
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Having just finished your book, it sounds like the FIDF needed some updated weapons in their armory too!
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📷 I photographed the 'QAnon Shaman' Jacob Chansley for the anniversary of the January 6 U.S. Capitol riot for @Telegraph in Phoenix, Arizona, where he is running for Congress.
✍️ Read @SusieCoen's piece below.
ALT Portrait of Jacob Chansley the 'QAnon Shaman'
🗣️ "Who’s going to be the next leader? I love Trump, but no offence to him, he’s getting up there in age."
Three years on from the January 6 riots, Jacob Chansley reveals what the day was like and what's next for him
🔗 Read more from @SusieCoen: telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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After months of planning, interviews and reporting spanning four states, @AlHannaford and I have a new story out today in print about the Italian-American mafia for June’s @BritishGQ.
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Today is my first freelance anniversary and I'm delighted with this 10-page feature I worked on w/@AlHannaford in December's GQ, out today:
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A suspected Mexican cartel scout watches me through binoculars as I film for an upcoming project for @Telegraph on the Mexico-United States border
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Stones arranged in a cross are left as an apparent memorial to Gabby Petito at Spread Creek in the Bridger-Teton National Forest where authorities say they have found a body matching Miss Petito’s description.
#GabbyPetito
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Work in today’s @Telegraph from a recent assignment with @RozinaSabur: Residents of Florida Keys face losing homes as rising sea levels threaten to cut them off telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01…
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Spare a thought for Plymouth Argyle fans and players, who as of 7pm have no idea whether their game tomorrow against Macclesfield, 6 hours away, is going ahead. Farcical from the @EFL
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Absolutely heartbroken by what’s unfolded in my hometown Plymouth tonight. Never in a million years could have thought something like that would happen there. So sorry for those who’ve lost loved ones 💚💚💚
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Honored to have new work out in National Geographic Traveller this month
Photo by @jamesbreeden for our July August 2018 issue // Chocolatier Eddie Murphy Dude, Sweet Chocolate store in Bishop Arts District, Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas. Read the city guide in the magazine today
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#NGTUK #natgeo #Dallas #USA #citylife #citygu… ift.tt/2JVNo8K
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Please consider helping fellow journalist Tristan Nichols' young family in their time of need. In loving memory of Tristan Nichols gofundme.com/in-loving-memor…
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Only just seeing this. Thank-you so much @BritishGQ, @JonathanHeaf and Robin Key for your continued support of original long-form journalism: 10 amazing images from British GQ in 2018 gq-magazine.co.uk/gallery/10… @AlHannaford
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This is the kind of solution it needs. So many people telling me I should have watermarked the video which is completely useless. There has to be a better way.
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The first sign of any activity at the duck boat salvage site were these two life jackets that burst to the surface. A truly heartbreaking scene.
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Goosebumps. At 4:53pm, the exact time the earthquake struck #Haiti 10 years ago, this rainbow appeared over Port-au-Prince #HaitiEarthquake
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This freelancing lark certainly isn't easy. 188 days on the road this year, away from family, in a hotel somewhere, to make it work. About 30 of those days just to pay for healthcare. Staffers, spare a thought for us as you enjoy paid time off over the holidays! #freelancer
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Updated gallery with some photos from this morning in Del Rio, Texas: Asylum-seekers wade across Rio Grande into U.S. reut.rs/3vWpS3k?slideId=1561… via @Reuters
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The President of Haiti Jovenel Moïse, who has been assassinated in an attack at his home in the early hours of Wednesday, pictured at his desk at the Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan 11, 2020.
#Haiti #JovenelMoise
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One of the nicest guys I've ever met. Thank-you for everything and best of luck @mattbutcher11
#pafc
✒️ After 66 games, a promotion, and an iconic derby-winning goal, Matt Butcher has left Home Park.
Matt signs for Wycombe Wanderers with our very best wishes. Good luck, Butch.
#pafc
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Proud of this. My first ever all-video assignment, looking at Trump’s immigration policies ahead of the mid term elections, by @h_alexander
Two Years Of Trump - a video series special: @h_alexander examines if Donald Trump’s venom on immigration could prove toxic to his midterm chances.
Watch the full video: telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11…
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It’ll be interesting to see the data in three weeks from the rally in Tulsa yesterday, albeit from a much smaller sample set...
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Two migrant children from Venezuela try to stay warm by a fire on the banks of the Rio Grande river in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, this afternoon. Their parents are waiting for Title 42 to end on December 21st before they attempt to cross the border into the U.S. to claim asylum.
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This was the line for an @ntfb drive-thru food bank in Dallas, TX this morning. Shot for @DailyMail
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