Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Immigrants Face Hurdles to Prove Abuse by US Agents

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Within hours of being booked at a Border Patrol station in far West Texas, two teenage sisters from Guatemala came forward to allege that an agent conducted an improper strip search. The agent in question denied the allegations, including the sisters’ claims that he touched their genitals. He insisted he had only fingerprinted the sisters before taking them back to their cell. Investigating the case came down to the sisters’ word versus the agent’s. And as in dozens of similar cases,...

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