Ok the Border Patrol is stupid and political now, not just public servants who want to do their jobs and of course you and dems know best how that should be done.....
Im sure if one were here they tell you to f off....Its not fear mongering, its real
"B402, I'd guess similar deal to 2016 - 4 Ways Border Patrol Union’s Trump Endorsement Is Filled With Lies and Misinformation"
From the previous two embedded links two stories, from back then.
By Nicholas Kristof
Jan. 25, 2014
IF you think that protests about overzealous law enforcement are over the top, listen to what unfolded when the police suspected that David Eckert, 54, was hiding drugs in his rectum.
Eckert is a shy junk dealer struggling to get by in Hidalgo County, N.M. He lives a working-class life, drives a 16-year-old pickup and was convicted in 2008 of methamphetamine possession.
Police officers, suspecting he might still be involved in drugs, asked him to step out of his pickup early last year after stopping him for a supposed traffic violation. No drugs or weapons were found on Eckert or in his truck, but a police dog showed interest in the vehicle and an officer wrote that Eckert’s posture was “erect and he kept his legs together.”
That led the police to speculate that he might be hiding drugs internally, so they took him in handcuffs to a nearby hospital emergency room and asked the doctor, Adam Ash, to conduct a forcible search of his rectum. Dr. Ash refused, saying it would be unethical.
“I was pretty sure it was the wrong thing to do,” Dr. Ash told me. “It was not medically indicated.”
Eckert, protesting all the while, says he asked to make a phone call but was told that he had no right to do so because he hadn’t actually been arrested. The police then drove Eckert 50 miles to the emergency room of the Gila Regional Medical Center, where doctors took X-rays of Eckert’s abdomen and performed a rectal examination. No drugs were found, so doctors performed a second rectal exam, again unavailing.
Doctors then gave Eckert an enema and forced him to have a bowel movement in the presence of a nurse and policeman, according to a lawsuit that Eckert filed. When no narcotics were found, a second enema was administered. Then a third.
The police left the privacy curtain open, so that Eckert’s searches were public, the lawsuit says.
After hours of fruitless searches, police and doctors arranged another X-ray and finally anesthetized Eckert and performed a colonoscopy.
“Nothing was found inside of Mr. Eckert,” the police report notes. So after he woke up, he was released — after 13 hours, two rectal exams, three enemas, two X-rays and a colonoscopy.
The hospital ended up billing Eckert $6,000.
When I came across this case, it seemed far-fetched to me — more like rape than law enforcement. But the authorities, hospital and doctors all refused to comment, and, a few days ago, the city and county settled the lawsuit by paying Eckert $1.6 million.
This wasn’t a unique case. A few months earlier, a man named Timothy Young who lives nearby says that police officers pulled him over, forcibly strip-searched him in a parking lot and then took him to a hospital for a forced X-ray and rectal examination while he was handcuffed. Nothing was found, so he was released — only to receive a hospital bill.
And a few weeks before Eckert’s ordeal, a 54-year-old American woman crossing from Mexico into El Paso was strip-searched and taken to the University Medical Center of El Paso. She says in a lawsuit that, over six hours, she was shackled to an examination table and subjected to rectal and vaginal examinations — with the door open to compound her humiliation. After a final X-ray and CT scan, all of which turned up nothing, she was released — and billed for the procedures.
Joseph P. Kennedy, Eckert’s lawyer, notes that such abuses are not random but are disproportionately directed at those on the bottom rungs of society. “It’s a socioeconomic issue,” he said. “It’s the indignities forced on people who are not articulate, not educated and don’t have access to legal services.”
Police are caught in a difficult balancing act, and obviously the abuse of Eckert isn’t representative. But it is emblematic of something much larger in America, a kind of inequality that isn’t economic and that we don’t much talk about.
It’s the kind of inequality that lies behind police stops for “driving while black,” or unequal implementation of stop-and-frisk policies, or “zero tolerance” school discipline codes that lead many low-income children to be suspended.
This inequality has a racial element to it, but it is also about social class (Eckert is white but struggling financially). This is about Americans living in different worlds. If you’re a middle-class reader, you probably see the justice system as protective. If you’re a young man of color, you may see it as threatening.
So as we discuss inequality in America, let’s remember that the divide is measured in more than dollars. It’s also about something as fundamental as our dignity, our humanity and our access to justice; it’s about the right of working stiffs not to endure forced colonoscopies.
And the other, from an ex-priest and again from that eight years ago, yet no doubt still relevant:
The Texas Border Surge is Backfiring
March 18, 2016 - 4:15pm
The influx of law enforcement officers in the Rio Grande Valley makes residents feel less safe.
Last year the Texas State Legislature passed an $800 million omnibus bill .. http://www.texastribune.org/2015/06/09/abbott-signs-sweeping-border-security-bill/ .. that, among other things, flooded the Rio Grande Valley with law enforcement officers. And next week, a Texas Senate subcommittee on border security will hold hearings to determine the necessity of increased collaboration between local law enforcement, state troopers, and federal immigration agents.
This is the last thing we need in the Valley.
Having served as a pastor of several Roman Catholic churches in the Rio Grande Valley for most of the last thirty years, I am intimately familiar with the struggles and challenges facing the residents of border communities.
In addition to the extreme poverty of the area, community members have had to deal with the brunt of our nation’s misunderstandings over what constitutes border security. This has become much worse over the past six years as our state’s leadership has irresponsibly amplified the national paranoia about the border.
What’s almost never mentioned in our national discussions is that border communities from Brownsville to El Paso are among the safest places in Texas. There is far more violent crime in Midland or Houston than there is in McAllen or Del Rio.
However, the hugely increased number of federal agents as well as state troopers has had the paradoxical impact of making border residents feel less secure. There is an extraordinary number of these agents in our streets, highways, and neighborhoods. We see Border Patrol agents near shopping centers and schools. In some parts of west Hidalgo County and in Starr County, I have seen state troopers parked along the highway nearly every 200 yards.
If these police agencies had established a record of public trust, perhaps their presence would not be so onerous. However, that is not the case.
In short, neither DPS nor the Border Patrol are trusted by the community. The perceived collaboration between local police, State Troopers and the Border Patrol makes any resident with a lick of common sense hesitant about calling the police. And it is this hesitancy that makes our communities unsafe—no one wants stash houses or potentially dangerous activity near our families, but the threat of state-mandated “boots on the ground” puts us between a rock and a hard place.
Immigration enforcement and local policing responsibilities are quite different. The federal government spends a huge amount of resources training their agents. While I continue to have trouble with the lack of accountability by the institution, I am very uncomfortable with the notion that a local police officer would be expected to know and enforce immigration law.
Finally, living in a region that has suffered generations of poorly funded schools, a region that has no public hospital and insufficient storm drainage infrastructure makes it difficult for me to understand how the state will spend almost a billion dollars duplicating federal policing efforts.
In the end, these are Texans we’re talking about, living in Texas cities and Texas towns, but over the past few years they’ve begun to feel like occupied territories. Our money, our resources, and our time would be far better spent reinvigorating these lively and vibrant communities than it is to militarize them.
Michael Seifert served as a Roman Catholic priest in the Rio Grande Valley for 24 years. In 2009 he retired from the priesthood and married. He now works as a Network Weaver for the Rio Grande Valley Equal Voice Network.
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