http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/03/15/1369761/-The-U-S-Border-Patrol-law-enforcement-or-just-guys-with-guns?detail=email
In March 2014, three women from Honduras—a mother, her 14-year-old daughter and another teenage girl—crossed the Rio Grande near Abram, Texas. According to Garrett Graff's article in Politico Magazine, they surrendered to U.S. Custom and Border Protection (CBP) agent Esteban Manzanares of the Border Patrol. Instead of taking them to the holding area in McAllen, Texas, Manzanares put them in the back of his patrol vehicle and drove around for a couple of hours.
Then he stopped his truck in a wooded area. He raped both the mother and the daughter. He slit the mother’s wrists and tried to break the daughter’s neck, leaving them for dead in the brush.
He drove off with the third woman bound in his green-and-white heavy-duty Border Patrol truck with a red-and-blue light bar on top, a Department of Homeland Security logo on the door and a U.S. flag on the hood. Somewhere out in the borderlands, the agent left his third prisoner hidden, bound with duct tape.
At the end of his shift, he went back for the girl, took her to his apartment where he raped her. Meanwhile, one of his earlier victims, still alive, had stumbled across the field of a surveillance camera and Border Patrol agents were sent to pick her up. Questioning the two victims led the agents to suspect that a CBP officer was involved and they called the local FBI office. Finding duct tape and blood in Esteban Manzanares' service vehicle, the FBI agents headed to his apartment. There, Manzanares shot himself after the FBI knocked on his door and identified themselves as federal officers. The girl was found in his apartment, alive, naked and bound to a chair.
There are two things of note about this story. One is that Esteban Manzanares was already under suspicion for allowing two border violators to go free, but the backlog of misconduct allegations at the inspector general's office was so great that he was allowed to remain on duty until an investigation could be done.
And two, the agency was so deeply troubled that the new commissioner had to fight his own officials within the CBP in order to issue his statement. They preferred to follow the long-standing tradition of publicly ignoring any accusation of corruption, misconduct, and/or excessive use of force.
Within the first 10 years after 9/11, we spent over $100 billion on CBP. And in the five years since then, we have spent an additional $59.7 billion.
These guys are scary.
you have to wonder is this like those agencies that have hidden mandates like quotas or directives from those up high? it sounds like these guys have a kinda stand your ground licence to assault or kill with very little recording or even reporting let's face it a body or two left in the wild after predators this time with 4 feet get through nobody's going to question after all they were heading toward illegal status anyway. the indifference is the worst part of absolute power corrupting absolutely, if true this would not have to be a gov't mandate it could be as low as the sergeant on duty that day.
and republicans want higher electrified fences and boots on the ground and don't seem to worry about money the same money they are now contemplating okaying for isis war, programs for poor and elderly, food stamps but not blinking an eye for their own personal witch hunts oh and "THEIR COMMITTEES". how much longer are we going to tolerate them taking our money and flipping us the birdie?
ever wonder where these jacked up price tags for gov't actions come from why isn't 59.7 billion dollars not enough to protect the border those boots on the ground don't account for it gas and vehicle upkeep should cost that much electric bill there's no fence yet so how much of it is kick backs? they need to make it clear and tell us where to find the accountability itemized for 59.7 billion that they claim does not keep us safe, remember any monies spent the republican congress approved it not the Pres.
