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"Look at that. And you don't even know if he's Mexican or not."
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents risked breaking a repatriation agreement after reportedly attempting to drop off an injured man in Mexico, as seen in a disturbing minutes-long video obtained by NBC News.
The footage provided by the CBP agency to the news publication after a whistleblower flagged the videos existence shows two U.S. border agents in uniform pulling a man into the Mexican side of the U.S.-Mexico border in Calexico, CA on March 27, 2017. As one U.S. border agent attempts to uncuff the man who appears to be hurt and mentally unstable, another U.S. border agent talks with a Mexican border agent who refuses to take the man without going through the proper repatriation channels. She asks him whether hes familiar with repatriation agreements and the U.S. border agent responds by saying hes been doing this job for 20 years.
Under a binational agreement between the two countries, Mexican nationals must be properly repatriated through the Mexican consulate, a process that includes fingerprinting and confirming the persons identity. Only then can they be sent back across the border on foot or by other means, NBC News reported.
https://thinkprogress.org/us-cbp-tried-dump-injured-man-mexico-46f295eac41b/
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https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/immigration-border-crisis/video-shows-u-s-agents-trying-dump-injured-man-over-n861146
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)This is despicable, but oh, what a clever way to not have to explain anything to any supervisors and such (not that they seem to care all that much).
Despicable people.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)Only when a camera and witnesses are at the scene, otherwise these fine agents of our government who work for us and took an oath to preserve the rule of law as exemplified in the Constitution, act like gang thugs from a Banana Republic.
And kudos to that Mexican border agent for speaking out and acting like a professional, and doing her country proud!