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May 29, 2015

Report: U.S. Border Patrol Racially Profiling Citizens in New Mexico 
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The ACLU has issued a new report documenting racial profiling and other
abuses by U.S. Border Patrol agents operating inside the state of New
Mexico. There are six permanent Border Patrol checkpoints in southern
New Mexico, where agents stop millions of people annually. The report
finds border agents have engaged in "racial profiling, unjustified
detentions and searches, verbal abuse, intimidation, physical abuse and
interfering with the delivery of emergency medical treatment," all with
little effective oversight or accountability. Ninety percent of abuses
were reported by U.S. citizens, the vast majority Latino.

 

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