Customs and Border Protection Inches Forward in Deployment of Body-Worn Cameras
By Joshua Breisblatt
For over two years, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has examined body-worn cameras to see if this technology which is quickly becoming standard police practice, should be used by its agents and officers. In their most recent step forward in implementing body-worn cameras for its agents and officers, CBP announced last week they will be requesting quotes to purchase 108 body-worn cameras and 12 vehicle-mounted cameras by the end of September.
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Border Patrol Chief Must End Biased Policing to Restore Trust in Communities
By Jorge Rodríguez
The House Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee will hold a hearing tomorrow, September 13, to discuss Border Patrol’s power grab in the government’s 100-mile border zone. For me, this hearing isn’t about efficiency. This is about my right — and the rights of roughly 200 million Americans — to travel freely and be respected in my community.
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67 Organizations Urge Justice Dept. to Improve Data Collection Mandate on Deaths in Police Custody
WASHINGTON –67 national and local criminal justice, civil rights, human rights, faith-based, immigrants’ rights, LGBTQ, and open government organizations urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to strengthen its proposed rule outlining the process for police departments to collect and report data about people who die while in police custody.
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Shots fired at Pembina border crossing
One man was hospitalized after a shooting at the Pembina, N.D., border crossing early Saturday morning.
A spokesman for U.S. Customs and Border Protection said the incident took place on the U.S. side of the border around 2 a.m. Border agents were alerted to a vehicle with a "suspicious" occupant travelling south from the border. Two agents attempted to stop the suspect but the driver allegedly rammed his vehicle into a border patrol vehicle.
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Justice Department says it will end use of private prisons
By Matt Zapotosky
The Justice Department plans to end its use of private prisons after officials concluded the facilities are both less safe and less effective at providing correctional services than those run by the government.
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President Obama: Castner Connects The Past And Future
Mayor Oscar Leeser
Mayor of El Paso, Texas
Mayor Javier Gonzalez Mocken
Mayor of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
President Obama, help unify our community through designating Castner Range as a national monument.
If you ask El Pasoans and Juarenses how they view the U.S.-Mexico border between El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, they will say the same thing: the separation between the two cities is more or less a fiction. And as the mayors that represent these two cities, we agree.
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U.S. needs more Mexican workers
BY PIA ORRENIUS
“You got what you wanted! But you lost what you had!”
Friends on the Other Side,
“The Princess and the Frog”
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Border agent charged with sexually assaulting girl
LAS CRUCES - A U.S. Border Patrol agent allegedly had sex with an underage high school student at least 20 times since last summer, according to court documents filed in Doña Ana County Magistrate Court.
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Federal judge orders more photos unsealed in suit alleging overcrowding in migrant detention centers
A U.S. District Court judge in Tucson has released photographs and documents that immigration activists allege will show crowding and unsanitary conditions at detention centers maintained by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency in its Tucson Sector along the Arizona-Mexico border.
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The Long History of America's Constitutionally-Challenged 'Border Zones'
Recently Maria Abi-Habib, a journalist at the Wall Street Journal, had a troubling experience. As she detailed on Facebook (picked up by Motherboard), customs agents at Los Angeles airport tried to take her phones after grilling her for an hour—something she protested as a violation of her rights. But it went further than that. "My rights as a journalist or U.S. citizen do not apply at the border," she wrote, "since legislation was passed in 2013 giving DHS very broad powers."
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