Brutality Unchecked: Human Rights Abuses Along the U.S. Border with MexicoHuman Rights Watch, 1992 - 81 páginas In this report, Americas Watch concludes that the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is responsible for serious and systematic human rights violations against undocumented migrants along the border with Mexico. The study, which focuses on incidents in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas, charges that beatings, rough physical treatment, and racially motivated verbal abuse by Border Patrol and INS agents are routine. Even more serious abuses, including unjustified shootings, torture and sexual abuse, occur. The violations detailed in "Brutality unchecked" are similar in kind and severity to those that have been documented by Americas Watch in many other countries. The INS and its parent, the justice Department, regularly cover up INS misconduct. Investigations of INS abuses are almost invariably perfunctory. The result is that offending agents uniformly escape punishment. When complaints are filed, the U.S. government is as defensive and unyielding as many of the most abusive governments. |
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Brutality Unchecked: Human Rights Abuses Along the U.S. Border with Mexico Vista de fragmentos - 1992 |
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Página 3 - Body of Principles for the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment...
Página 2 - States, and make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence, or for any felony cognizable under the laws of the United States, if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such felony.
Página 16 - ... there is a substantial risk that the person to * be arrested will cause death or serious bodily harm if his apprehension is delayed.
Página 1 - That this section and sections 136, 154 and 180a-180d of this title shall not apply to any alien arrested and deported before March 4, 1929, in pursuance of law, in whose case prior to his reembarkation at a place outside the United States, or his application in foreign contiguous territory for admission to the United States, and prior to March 4, 1929, the Attorney General has granted such alien permission to reapply for admission.
Página 71 - The INS needs to redirect its mission to emphasize the promotion and protection of human rights in the fulfillment of its responsibility to enforce US immigration laws.
Página 71 - Law enforcement officials, in carrying out their duty, shall, as far as possible, apply nonviolent means before resorting to the use of force and firearms. They may use force and firearms only if other means remain ineffective or without any promise of achieving the intended result.
Referencias a este libro
Caring Capacity Versus Carrying Capacity: Community Responses to Mexican ... Todd A. Eisenstadt,Cathryn Thorup Vista de fragmentos - 1994 |
International Migration, Refugee Flows and Human Rights in North America ... Alan Burtham Simmons Vista de fragmentos - 1996 |