Tag Archives: U.S. Customs and Border Protection
Agents Humiliated, Wrongfully Detained Border-Crossers, Say Civil Rights Groups
Rights groups say border agents harassed and humiliated women crossing between the United States and Mexico, including unlawful strip-searches....Read More
Homeland Insecurity
Want to run drugs, smuggle migrants and get away with it? Join America’s biggest law enforcement agency.
What good are more boots on the ground if the men and women wearing them also work for the cartels? What benefit is an 18-foot wall when criminals can bribe the...Read More
Western Block: One Woman’s Quest for Citizenship
Refujia Roman-Chavez could be a U.S. citizen, but she can't prove it without the cooperation of the West Texas border agents who’ve repeatedly told her to return to Mexico.
Much as undocumented parents have struggled with a sometimes hostile Texas bureaucracy that hinders easy access to their American-born kids’ birth certificate...Read More
Full Video of DPS Helicopter Shooting
Full unedited video of the October 2012 DPS helicopter shooting....Read More
Death on Sevenmile Road
The rush to militarize the U.S.-Mexico border has tragic consequences in Texas.
Beefing up border security means an increasingly military-style presence on the ground and in the air. The Observer investigates a surge that puts immigr...Read More
Texas DPS Officer Shoots at Unarmed Vehicle
With increased border militarization, South Texas is becoming a dangerous place for unarmed immigrants. ...Read More
Could a Border Patrol Accountability Bill Pass?
In March, two border congressional leaders filed a bill to make the Border Patrol more accountable to the public....Read More
Border Residents Tell Congress They Need Better Schools and Jobs, Not More Drones and Guns
In April 2012, PBS aired footage of as many as 20 border agents beating an unarmed man, Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, to death. After viewing the shocking footage,...Read More
“It Took Twenty Lives To Get Us To This Place.”
Says Border Civil Rights Advocate About CBP Announcement On Use of Force Policies
In the wake of a federal report released last week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Wednesday new measures to address a trend of lethal beatings an...Read More