Border Patrol
Of 142 complaints filed against Border Patrol agents in Yuma and Tuscon Sectors, the only case to recieved discipline resulted in a one-day suspension, according to a report released by the ACLU.
Most of the complaints that immigrants and American citizens present against the United States Border Patrol are not given any attention and haven't caused any sort of disciplinary action, revealed a report released on Tuesday.
US Border Patrol agents managed to rescue various illegal immigrants last weekend who had been abandoned by drug trafficking gangs in Arizona, local media reported.
Facing repeated reports of use of excessive force by agents of the Border Patrol, legislators from both parties have joined forces to promote a law initiative which seeks stricter enforcement of accountability of Department of Homeland Security agencies, among them the Border Patrol.
A US Border Patrol agent was found dead inside his home, located in southern Texas, responsible for kidnapping and raping three women who had illegally entered the country, authorities reported on Thursday.
A Mexican citizen has been sentenced by a U.S. court to 30 years in prison for the homicide of a Border Patrol officer in 2010, during a shootout in which firearms from the controversial "Fast and Furious" operation were allegedly involved.
The Arizona Border Patrol presented three robots that will be employed to identify tunnels used by criminal groups to smuggle drugs across the border and to detect and prevent illegal immigration.
Roberto Venegas Fernández, a Mexican immigrant detained after crossing the border, murdered his cellmate to avoid being deported to his native country.
A report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) released in the past few days concluded that the United States Border Patrol does not have a procedure that adequately classifies in its system cases of use of force, which makes it impossible to determine the number of complaints and investigations regarding abuses.
The bipartisan immigration reform bill proposed by the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” has plenty of critics on the right, particularly in the more conservative House of Representatives, but some criticism is also coming from the left over a controversial drone program.
Controversy over Arizona's immigration laws sparked protests in Tucson yesterday after an immigration rights activist and a father of six were detained by authorities citing immigration violations.
