NPR: Obama, Rights Group Want Body Cameras on Border Patrol
By: Nancy Montoya The Southern Border Communities Coalition reports that since 2010, 42 people have died as a result of encounters with Border Patrol agents. The group is made up of more than 60...
View ArticleThink Progress: The $5 Million Proposal To Hold Border Patrol Agents...
By: Esther Yu-Hsi Lee Tucked into the final budget proposal of President Obama’s administration is an effort to prevent U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents from operating with impunity...
View ArticleBorder volunteers find ‘gory’ vandalism at water stations
By: Kendal Blust Volunteers for Humane Borders found six of their water stations vandalized during a routine check Tuesday in an area near . One of the stations, at Cemetery Hill, had been shot, and a...
View ArticleObama’s Budget Contains Some Small Victories for Immigrant Advocates
By: ChaKiara Tucker / Communications Coordinator for Alliance San Diego Recently, President Obama revealed the budget for 2017, his final budget as Commander-In-Chief. The $4.7 trillion financial...
View ArticleActivists push for body cams for border agents
By: Tatiana Sanchez Immigration activists in San Diego are continuing a national push for the implementation of body-worn cameras for agents and officers of U.S. Customs and Border Protection....
View ArticleBody cameras on Border Patrol agents could save live
By: Pedro Rios In 2010, Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, a husband and father of five, was handcuffed, tortured and brutally beaten to death by 12 Border Patrol agents at the San Ysidro border crossing in...
View ArticleBorder Patrol To Review San Ysidro Taser Death Of Mexican Immigrant
By Jean Guerrero On Thursday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection will begin reviewing the death of a Mexican immigrant shot repeatedly with a Taser by Border Patrol agents. The 2010 incident went viral...
View ArticleCBP board to review controversial border death
The board is set to review the 2010 death of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, who died after a confrontation with border agents at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. By Tatiana Sanchez U.S. Customs and Border...
View ArticleLetter to The Editor: Fight for Body Cams on Border will Continue (San Diego...
By Christian Ramirez The recently published article, “Activists push for body cams for border agents” demonstrates the lack of justice given to Anastasio Hernandez Rojas’ family. This family has been...
View ArticleComité de CBP evaluará caso de muerte de Anastasio Hernández en frontera
By EFEUSA Un comité de la Oficina de Aduanas y Protección Fronteriza evaluará a partir de este jueves la investigación realizada tras la muerte del mexicano Anastasio Hernández hace casi seis años...
View ArticleTime for CBP to hold its agents accountable
For almost six years, the Hernandez Rojas family has asked our government to provide them with vindication and justice for the preventable death of Anastasio Hernandez Rojas. In 2010, Anastasio, a...
View ArticleLaw Enforcement Panel Says Border Agency Vulnerable To Corruption Scandal
By Jean Guerrero A panel of law enforcement experts found that U.S. Customs and Border Protection has made little movement on a call to sharply increase the number of agents assigned to investigate...
View ArticleSymposium Examines Social Justice For LGBTQ Community
By Samantha Sonner This year’s J. Paul Taylor Social Justice Symposium focused on equality for LGBTQ identities in the borderlands. Movies, speeches and panel discussions focused on different aspects...
View ArticleThe Problem With Designing Trump’s Border Wall
By Sukjong Hong Christian Ramirez remembers what life was like before the border wall went up in San Diego. Growing up in San Ysidro, a neighborhood on the city’s southwestern corner, he regularly...
View ArticleOtra vez… Arizona
By Christian Ramirez Arizona se convierte, por enésima vez, en escenario de conductas vergonzantes. Y es que el gobierno del estado vecino, no conforme con su siniestro legado de racismo e...
View ArticleDeath on the border: Family suing U.S. for “torturing and killing” Latino...
Lawyer says Border Patrol’s impunity after Anastasio Hernández Rojas’ death on camera is “miscarriage of justice” By Ben Norton The family of a longtime U.S. resident is suing the government on charges...
View ArticleKillings, deaths at the border
Six years after migrant’s death, family suit points to larger issues surrounding border activity, investigations The family of a migrant from Mexico who died from injuries inflicted by border police in...
View ArticleCaso Anastasio: La dignidad vencerá
Es imposible olvidar los gritos de un hombre indefenso que imploraba auxilio. Fue una noche tibia de mayo de 2010, cuando al menos una docena de agentes fronterizos sometían a puntapiés, macanazos y...
View ArticleActivistas fronterizos reaccionan tras visita de 3 días a frontera de Texas
By Agencia EFE Tucson (AZ), 18 abr (EFEUSA).- Activistas de organizaciones fronterizas del sur del país realizaron la pasada semana una visita de tres días a la frontera de Texas por donde están...
View ArticleUnion for Border Patrol agents under fire for endorsement of Trump
By Ricard Marosi The tears begin flowing the moment the U.S. Border Patrol agents swing open the doors of the border enforcement zone, allowing Mexican families to step through and reunite with loved...
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