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Crossing the line at the border

[full 23m32s video at http://video.pbs.org/video/2225180660 , smaller version embedded]

By Brian Epstein
April 20, 2012

In partnership with the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute [ http://www.nationinstitute.org/ ], Need to Know investigates whether U.S. border agents have been using excessive force in an effort to curb illegal immigration. Eight people have been killed along the border in the past two years. One man died a short time after being beaten and tased, an event recorded by two eyewitnesses whose video is the centerpiece of the report. Both eyewitnesses say the man offered little or no resistance. One told Need to Know that she felt like she watched someone being “murdered,” and the San Diego coroner’s office classified the death as a “homicide.”

The report raises questions about accountability. Because border agents are part of the Department of Homeland Security, they are not subjected to the same public scrutiny as police officers who use their weapons. It also questions whether, in the rush to secure the border, agents are being adequately trained. And it raises the question: why aren’t these cases being prosecuted?

© 2012 WNET.ORG

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/security/video-first-look-crossing-the-line/13597/ [with comments]


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‘I think I witnessed someone being murdered’

[1m56s segment of the above at http://video.pbs.org/video/2224793201 , smaller version embedded]

April 20, 2012

On May 28, 2010, 24-year-old Ashley Young was on a pedestrian bridge along the San Diego-Mexico border when she heard a man below crying out for help. In a nearby U.S. Customs and Border Protection holding area, Young saw what she says was a man on the ground being beaten and tased by agents. She found the scene so troubling that she took out a camera and hit “record.”

In partnership with the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute, Need to Know investigates whether U.S. border agents have been using excessive force in an effort to curb illegal immigration.

© 2012 WNET.ORG

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/video/video-i-think-i-witnessed-someone-being-murdered/13687/ [with comments]


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“I think I witnessed someone being murdered.”

By Dione Friends
Online Media Coordinator
April 25th, 2012

The ACLU of Texas Immigrants’ Rights campaign [ http://www.aclutx.org/strategic-campaigns/immigrants%E2%80%99-rights-campaign/ ] and the Southern Border Communities Coalition [ http://soboco.org/ ] has worked to shed light on Border Patrol brutality and rights abuses—including the eight men and boys agents have shot and killed over the past two years. On April 20, we shocked the nation with the exposé “Crossing the Line,” which aired on the PBS show Need to Know.

© ACLU of Texas

http://www.aclutx.org/blog/?p=1405 [with comment]


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