Report: Border Patrol abuses widespread

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(CNN) -- Back in 2006, volunteers with No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization dedicated to helping migrants along the Arizona-Mexico border, began hearing the same stories from many who had been in the custody of the U.S. Border Patrol.

Thwarted would-be unauthorized immigrants spoke of being denied water or food during their custody. Others said they were beaten.

The organization started properly documenting these allegations, and the stories added up to nearly 13,000 testimonies whose results were released in a report this week.

The findings went beyond denial of food and water. Migrants held by the Border Patrol spoke of being exposed to extreme heat or cold, sleep deprivation, death threats, and psychological abuse such as blaring music with lyrics about migrants dying in the desert.

full: http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/22/us/border-patrol-allegations/index.html

Apparently as is the case in ANY article related to immigration issues the comments will favor the law-and-order side...maybe Border Patrol is paying people to comment and vote on favorable comments?

[Mnemosyne]

1. BIL is reich-wing border patrol. Knowing that leads me to have no doubt of

these abuses/tortures. No doubt at all.

[cutlassmama]

2. they could be, however there are many people that are racist out there