As border security expands, complaints of abuse rise among Americans
A series of lawsuits filed in recent months in federal courts along the U.S. border with Mexico highlight what advocates say is a growing list of complaints against two U.S. agencies that have expanded rapidly amid the clamor to secure the nation’s borders.
In one lawsuit, centered on events in Chula Vista, Calif., a Border Patrol agent is accused of leaping on the hood of a car driven by a mother of five and shooting her dead. She was unarmed. The agent had been fired from his previous job as a sheriff’s deputy for a variety of misconduct.
In a second case, a Customs officer in Brownsville, Texas, violently pushed a disabled woman to the ground. She had a miscarriage the next day. Border officers also had to call firefighters to remove handcuffs that allegedly had bound her wrists too tightly.
For a third woman, her return to the United States was intrusive and painful. She was pulled from a line at an El Paso, Texas, border crossing, apparently on the suspicion that she was carrying drugs. She was handcuffed. Over the next six hours, agents escorted her to a hospital, where they oversaw the probing of her anus and vagina, forced her to take a laxative and then watched as she moved her bowels. When no drugs were found, they ordered her to submit to an X-ray and a CT scan.
Well now, I guess my idea of border security was totally out of whack! I always thought the purpose was to, well, SECURE THE BORDER, prevent illegals, stop the cartels from bringing in drugs, and stopping the coyotes from escorting extreme undesirables, like islamists, into the country, not to mention those….what do they call them? Panty trees? Where young women are savagely raped, and their underwear is hung on a tree.
Since when it is the job of the Border Patrol to abuse American citizens? Please, read the entire column. I’ve no doubt you’ll be as disgusted as I am. I honestly cannot express the revulsion I feel at this blatant abuse of power towards Americans. LEGAL U.S. citizens.
I’m seeing a serious need for some reform within ALL the federal law enforcement agencies. Psychological tests might be in order. I’ve no doubt that most of these people are the good guys, but when you have a number of agents abusing citizens, we definitely have a problem, and that problem needs to be resolved….NOW! Stop the flow of illegal invaders, and leave US alone!
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They might be hiring more agents, but apparently, they aren’t doing the job they were hired to do. Many want to serve their country in one capacity or another. Others….want the power they feel it brings. The power to abuse, to make helpless, those very citizens they were sworn to protect!
Seriously, READ THE WHOLE THING!
