On Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego released a report summarizing the abuse that children suffered from United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents from 2009 to 2014.
"All human beings deserve to be treated with dignity and respect regardless of their immigration status—and children, in particular, deserve special protection," Mitra Ebadolahi, ACLU Border Litigation Project staff attorney, said in a press release. "The misconduct demonstrated in these records is breathtaking, as is the government's complete failure to hold officials who abuse their power accountable. The abuse that takes place by government officials is reprehensible and un-American."
The U.S. already has some of the harshest immigration laws in the world. If CBP agents simply adhered to those rules, immigrants might have the chance to be treated with a basic sense of human dignity in the immigration process. However, such treatment has proved to be regularly absent from CBP agents' behavior.
[For more on this story by ASHLEY HACKETT, go to https://psmag.com/social-justi...er-protection-agents]
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