By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Enhancements at a San Diego park have caused an unusual rift between the Border Patrol union and city park officials. NBC San Diego reports that wooden bollards were placed around the Tijuana River Valley Regional Park in 2013 to prevent cars from driving into the park. But those roadblocks are now impeding…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Obama administration’s pledge to discipline Border Patrol agents who use excessive force is nearly a year old and hardly any progress has been made, The Los Angeles Times reports. Shooting cases remain unresolved and undisciplined. A review panel tasked with making recommendations has yet to do so. And internal affairs’…
By ACLU Attorney James Lyall Arizona Daily Star For years, watchdog groups have issued report after report detailing the brutal conditions faced by children in Border Patrol custody. Since 2008, non-governmental aid organizations have documented at least 1,600 specific examples of children suffering abuse and inhumane environments in the Border Patrol’s detention facilities. Border Patrol…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Border Patrol agents in Arizona have been advised they are under no obligation to arrest drunken drivers and will face no consequences for letting the suspects go, CBS5 reports. A training memo that has been circulating among agents reminded them that they have no legal authority to arrest someone for breaking…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. government was ordered to pay nearly $500,000 to an undocumented immigrant from Mexico who was shot by a Border Patrol agent on Nov. 16, 2010, the USA Today reports. U.S. District Court Justice James Soto said the agent’s “use of force was not justified” because the plaintiff, Castro Romo,…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The ACLU sued Border Patrol to get more insight into the use of “roving patrols,” Reuters reports. The suit comes after the CBP ignored a July 2014 request under the Freedom of Information Act to release information on the patrols, which lead to people being stopped more than 100 miles from…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Even if Republicans pass a spending measure intended to squash President Obama’s executive action on immigration, they won’t be successful, PBS.org reports. PBS notes that a shutdown, which would happen if a funding plan isn’t in place by Feb. 27, would not impact about 85% of the agency’s workers, including those…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A gun shortage at the Border Patrol has forced about 400 agents to share 100 rifles, one agent told Fox News. That means agents aren’t able to calibrate their weapon. “We are left to check out rifles that were unzeroed to us,” a border patrol agent told FoxNews.com. “This practice needs…
