By Ann Longmore-Etheridge
USA Today has published a damning article on the U.S. Border Patrol's lack of investigations into complaints of abuse. "Out of 809 complaints of abuse filed against Border Patrol agents from January 2009 to January 2012, only 13 resulted in any kind of action...according to documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests by the American Immigration Council, a Washington, D.C.-based immigrant-advocacy group. Forty percent of the complaints were still pending investigation when the [documents were released]," USA Today reports. The article notes an ongoing investigation The Arizona Republic that found that since 2005, Border Patrol or Customs agents had killed 44 people, but no one was disciplined in any of these cases. "The immigration council, ACLU, and 14 other civil- and immigrant-rights groups have submitted recommendations to the Department of Homeland Security. They called on officials to create a single, unified complaint system that allows filing complaints online, through mobile phones and telephones, through a toll-free number; to develop a unified process for receiving and investigating complaints; to make information about complaints more available to the public—and to analyze data about complaints to improve policies and training," states USA Today.
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