Border Patrol beat, sexually assaulted, and denied medical care to immigrant children, ACLU says

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As a detained 16-year-old immigrant waited in her cell with her infant child, a Border Patrol stood in the doorway and warned her, “Right now, we close the door, we rape you and fuck you.” On a separate occasion, an agent tossed an immigrant child to the ground, leveled a gun at him, and told the kid, “Stop or I will shoot you.” A group of officers once told several pregnant girls that they’d "come to contaminate this country with all those things. Look at all those other girls, all fat.”

These incidents, and dozens of similar allegations of child abuse by Border Patrol agents, are all detailed in a report released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union’s Border Litigation Project and the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago School of Law. All of the incidents, which are drawn from complaints filed with a Department of Homeland Security watchdog agency and obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, took place between 2009 and 2014, under the Obama administration.

“The records show that the leadership at Customs and Border Protection were well aware of the allegations of unlawful child abuse — including people still now directing the agency — yet there is no indication that any individual official was ever held accountable for abuse,” Mitra Ebadolahi, a staff attorney with the Border Litigation project and the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties, wrote in a blog post accompanying the report’s release. (CBP oversees the Border Patrol.)

CBP flatly denied the allegations in the ACLU report.

“The false accusations made by the ACLU against the previous administration are unfounded and baseless,” CBP spokesperson Dan Hetlage said in a statement, adding the ACLU’s report “ignores a number of improvements” and oversight mechanisms implemented by the CBP. “The [Office of Inspector General] has already completed an investigation and found these claims unsubstantiated and did not observe misconduct or inappropriate conduct. CBP takes seriously all allegations of misconduct, but without new specifics is unable to check to commence reasonable steps to examine these assertions and address the accusations levied.”


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[TimeSnowDemos]

1. There's a pattern

Go look at the insane criminality Arpaio got up too (remembering he's a hero to millions of Americans) and it becomes pretty clear: the people obsessed with illegal immigration are scumbags and often criminals.