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Judge awards half-million dollars to man shot by US border patrol agent

 

Border Patrol agents, an FBI investigator and rescue personnel from the Rio Rico Fire District gather along State Route 289 west of Nogales on Nov. 16, 2010, after Border Patrol Agent Abel Canales shot Jesus Castro Romo of Mexico in a nearby canyon area.

 

U.S. Judge James A. Soto has found that a former Border Patrol agent was not justified when he shot and seriously wounded an undocumented border-crosser west of Nogales in 2010, and awarded the victim nearly $500,000 in damages.
Source: www.nogalesinternational.com

 

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Checkpoint Refusal Gone Horribly Wrong: Man Detained for 19 Days for Flexing His Rights [VIDEO]

 

You’ve probably seen them before: internal border checkpoint refusals, now a popular YouTube genre. Some are funny. Others are hostile. But for Greg Rosenberg, a naturalized U.S. citizen who speaks accented English, an encounter with South Texas border patrol resulted in weeks of jail time without a single charge being prosecuted.

 

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Source: thefreethoughtproject.com

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CNN calls dead refugee ‘illegal’

CNN has no heart.

This person who died while fleeing or (im)migrating, CNN calls him ‘illegal’.

  1. No human is illegal
  2. Is the action of fleeing as a refugee an illegal act? No.
  3. When Black or Latino people flee as refugees they are called ‘illegal‘
  4. When White people flee as refugees they are called pilgrims, settlers or immigrants.

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Judge: Border Patrol caught human traffickers too far from Mexican border

Two border agents who stopped a Chevrolet Suburban they thought looked suspiciously heavy were well intentioned but overly zealous, a federal judge has ruled.

U.S. District Judge Marina Garcia Marmolejo in Corpus Christi on Thursday granted a defendant’s motion to suppress evidence, stating that the agents in question lacked “reasonable suspicion to believe that criminal activity was afoot.”

Source: www.chron.com

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Mexicans Shot on Own Soil by Border Patrol Given Hope in Legal Quest for Justice

 

Over the last four years, a half dozen Mexican families have suffered the loss of one of their family members as a result of Border Patrol shootings. All of the fatalities were of unarmed men, were Mexican and in Mexican territory. The Supreme Court will likely decide the fate of legal efforts to hold the CBP legally accountable for these killings.

 

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Source: www.telesurtv.net

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Migrants snared in multi-million dollar kidnap racket on U.S.-Mexico border

 

Tens of thousands of Central American migrants are being kidnapped, abused and extorted by Mexican gangs just yards from the United States in a growing racket that may be worth up to $250 million a year.

 

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Source: mexicoinstitute.wordpress.com

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Massacres in Mexico underscore government collusion with cartels

 

Two recent massacres tell the story of human rights failures in Mexico. One massacre was committed by municipal police in Iguala, the second one by Mexican soldiers in Tlatlaya. Both occurred in areas teeming with crime, and activists have linked each one to a government increasingly powerless against drug cartels and violence.

 

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Source: mexicoinstitute.wordpress.com

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Events planned for first anniversary of Andy Lopez killing – Oct 22, 2013 – Santa Rosa, CA

SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. — Sonoma County residents are preparing several events to mark the one-year anniversary of the killing of 13-year-old Andy Lopez by a county sheriff’s deputy on Oct. 22, 2013.

Community members plan to attend a 6 p.m. meeting Monday in Santa Rosa of the Community and Local Law Enforcement Task Force, which was established by the county Board of Supervisors following the shooting of Andy by Deputy Erick Gelhaus, who believed the airsoft rifle the teen was carrying was an AK-47 rifle.

 

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Source: www.ktvu.com