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Supreme Court hears case on<br />
shooting of 15-year old by U.S.<br />
Border Patrol Agent<br />
Continued from page 31<br />
short, this is an extreme example of<br />
a system lacking even the most basic<br />
mechanisms of accountability.<br />
And now, the Trump administration’s<br />
Executive Order and subsequent<br />
implementation memo on<br />
border security and immigration<br />
enforcement would amount to a<br />
“surge” of 5,000 new Border Patrol<br />
agents with very few checks on<br />
their behavior in dealing with any<br />
non-U.S. citizen, particularly if that<br />
non-citizen has the misfortune to be<br />
standing in Mexico. Moreover, the<br />
drive to grab every unauthorized<br />
immigrant in sight without regard<br />
for any reasonable enforcement priorities—as<br />
reflected in the Executive<br />
Order—is a recipe for the use of<br />
excessive force.<br />
Pouring more resources and personnel<br />
into a dysfunctional system<br />
is not going to make that system<br />
any more functional. It’s just going<br />
to create an even bigger dysfunctional<br />
system. CBP—and the Border<br />
Patrol in particular—is already<br />
out of control. Even in cases where<br />
CBP officers injure or kill someone,<br />
they rarely suffer any serious<br />
consequences. This case speaks to<br />
a broader, systemic problem within<br />
CBP—an organizational culture in<br />
which anything goes.<br />
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