Impunity at the Border: Inside US Border Patrol’s ‘cover-up’ unit | Migration

Fault Traces investigates secretive items inside the US Border Patrol which have been accused of protecting up crimes for brokers.

Secretive items inside the USA Border Patrol have operated within the shadows for many years – and there’s rising proof that Vital Incident Groups (CIT) have been used to cover agent misconduct.

Fault Traces investigated an August 2021 automobile crash involving Border Patrol that killed two folks. A survivor tells his story for the primary time, contradicting Border Patrol’s model and elevating critical questions concerning the position of those groups after deadly encounters.

Human rights attorneys, who first uncovered CIT items in 2021, argue that they obstructed the investigation into Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas’s loss of life. He was hogtied, crushed and tased by brokers in 2010. Since then, at the very least 145 folks have died in lethal pursuits or use-of-force incidents with Border Patrol. No agent has been convicted in any of these deaths.