Border Patrol - A History of Border Patrol

New York Times reporter, john crodson, won a pulet surprise in 19 80 for a series of articles about the border patrol. The intercept summarizing his work notes patrollers regularly engaged in beatings, murder torture and raped girls as young as 12. Border patrol agents also used the children of migrants either as bait or as pressure, a pressure tactic to force confessions. Mothers, especially, an agent said, would always break once a confession was extracted. Children might be placed in foster care or left to languish in federal jails. Others were released into mexico alone, far from their homes, forced to survive by garbage cans, crounging, living on roof tops and