Category: US-Mexico border

US border agents engaged in ‘shocking abuses’ against asylum seekers, report finds

by The Guardian | Oct 21, 2021 | Human rights, Rape and sexual assault, The Guardian, US crime, US immigration, US news, US-Mexico border, World News | 0 |

Revealed: documents released after six years of legal tussles uncover over 160 cases of misconduct and abuseShocking instances of sexual and physical abuse of asylum seekers at the southern US border by federal officers have...

Ups and downs: Trump’s $27m-a-mile border wall being scaled with $5 ladders

by The Guardian | Apr 24, 2021 | Donald Trump, The Guardian, US immigration, US news, US-Mexico border | 0 |

‘Unlike the wall, these ladders are functional,’ artist and activist Scott Nicol points out to local magazine Texas MonthlyFor millennia two bitter foes have been in constant conflict with one another: the imposing,...