Report: Border Patrol Abuses on the Rise
Saturday 24 September 2011
Phoenix, Ariz. – The number of apprehensions of undocumented immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border has dropped, but reports of abuses against immigrants are on the rise.
Those are the findings of a new report released by the Arizona humanitarian aid organization No More Deaths.
The report, “A Culture of Cruelty,” documents 30,000 incidents of human rights abuses against undocumented immigrants in short-term detention Read more
Portland, Oregon ICE detention jail stopped!
Rally against new Border Patrol Station in Port Angeles
By Rob Ollikainen
Peninsula Daily News
PORT ANGELES — Dozens flocked to a Port Angeles rally against the
expansion of the Border Patrol headquarters at the site of the planned building renovation on Sunday. Thirty-five protesters held signs in support of immigrants’ rights and against defense spending during the two-hour May Day Rally.
They stood on both sides of Front Street near the intersection of
Penn Street, where Homeland Security will Read more