Is US-Mexico border secure enough? Immigration reform could hinge on answer
Is US-Mexico border secure enough? Immigration reform could hinge on answer
- March 6, 2013
- Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies and political science professor, is quoted in the Christian Science Monitor March 6, 2013
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From the Christian Science Monitor:
In recent years, the border patrol has been under fire for excessive use of force,
shootings involving agents, and corruption among its ranks. While those problems are
"relatively few," says Louis DeSipio, a political scientist at the University of California,
Irvine, they could be an outgrowth of claims of discrimination in border communities.
"People who look like they're from Latin America are much more likely to face the
wrath of the border patrol," he says. There have been signs of progress. In El Paso,
Texas, the Border Network for Human Rights reached out to the border patrol after
people felt they were targets "because of the way they looked and the way they dressed."
Complaints dropped significantly.
For the full story, please visit http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2013/0306/Is-US-Mexico-border-secu....
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