Published by WOLA on March 8, 2023.
Raises 10 fatal cases since 2020, from this database, for which a reasonable doubt exists about whether deadly force was warranted.
CBP and Border Patrol Deadly Force Incidents Since 2020
Tag: Use of Force
2023 Update to the Department Policy on Use of Force
Published by the Department of Homeland Security on February 6, 2022.
The main revisions concern chokeholds and no-knock warrants. (Link at dhs.gov)
Fiscal Year 2021 Office of Professional Responsibility CBP-Related Deaths Report
Published by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on February 6, 2023.
“Includes statistical data on a total of 151 deaths, which occurred during FY 2021, including 55 in-custody deaths, 53 reportable CBP-involved deaths, and 43 additional deaths that Appropriations staff requested OPR to review.” (Original link)
I was a border patrol agent. The experience was horrifying
Published by the Guardian on June 14, 2022.
Former Border Patrol agent Jenn Budd, author of Against the Wall, writes about her harrowing experience in the agency and about the 2010 killing of migrant Anastasio Hernández-Rojas.
Egbert v. Boule decision
Published by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 8, 2022.
In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 8 that a U.S. citizen could not sue a Border Patrol agent who assaulted him. (Link at supremecourt.gov)
CBP staffs up border line as asylum seekers try to reach U.S. soil by driving across
Published by the San Diego Union Tribune on February 5, 2022.
Asylum seekers, many of them Russian, are seeking to reach U.S. soil through San Diego’s main port of entry from Tijuana. One case led to a December 12, 2021 use of force incident.
Request for congressional investigations and oversight hearings on the unlawful operation of the U.S. Border Patrol’s Critical Incident Teams (BPCITs)
Published by the Southern Border Communities Coalition on October 27, 2021.
Calls on Congress to look more deeply into the operations of secretive Border Patrol teams whose purpose appears to be to exonerate agents alleged to have committed serious human rights abuses.
Unresolved Complaints of CBP Misconduct Require Immediate Attention and Accountability
Published by the ACLU on March 3, 2021.
A memo to the incoming Biden administration’s new Homeland Security secretary details numerous unresolved cases of CBP and Border Patrol misconduct and abuse. Accompanied by a 207-page appendix of complaints issued in 2019 and 2020.
Appendix of Unresolved Complaints
Published by the ACLU on March 3, 2021.
A collection of ACLU complaints about CBP and Border Patrol misconduct and abuse in 2019 and 2020, accompanying a memo to the incoming Biden administration’s new Homeland Security secretary.
CBP Use of Force Policy
Published by Customs and Border Protection in January, 2021.
The agency makes public its current guidelines for using lethal and less-than-lethal force. (Link at cbp.gov)
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Compliance with Use of Force Policy for Incidents on November 25, 2018 and January 1, 2019
Published by the Department of Homeland Security Inspector-General on August 24, 2020.
Examines two incidents of cross-border use of tear gas and other crowd control measures during the arrival of a “migrant caravan” in Tijuana, and finds only minor wrongdoing. (Link at oig.dhs.gov)
Border Enforcement Developments Since 1993 and How to Change CBP
Published by the Center for Migration Studies on August 24, 2020.
A summary of recent experience with border security and migration, with a long list of recommendations.
Report No. 198/20. Petition P-524-16. Admissibility. Anastasio Hernández Rojas and family.
Published by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission on July 23, 2020.
The Commission finds admissible the case of Anastasio Hernandez, a Mexican citizen who was violently beaten and tasered to death by CBP agents on May 31, 2010.
Carta al gobierno de México: es imperativo proteger los derechos de personas migrantes durante la pandemia COVID-19
Publicado por WOLA y varias otras organizaciones el 15 de abril de 2020.
A research-based letter expressing concern about migrants’ rights and health in Mexico in light of the coronavirus emergency.
A Group of Agents Rose Through the Ranks to Lead the Border Patrol. They’re Leaving It in Crisis.
Published by ProPublica on February 10, 2020.
A cohort of Border Patrol agents who served together in Douglas, Arizona in the 2000s rose to the topmost ranks and leaves a difficult legacy.