Crossing the line at the border: Part II

Crossing the line at the border: Part II

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuJClimdXp0

PBS Need to Know, Oct 25, 2012, Video 30 min.

This and other PBS Need to Know reports have sparked an official investigation by the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Homeland Security. This action on the part of the OIG is the latest in a series of increasingly serious calls for inquiries into alleged abuses along the border. Following our first Border Patrol report, 16 members of Congress sent a letter in May demanding the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security investigate allegations of excessive force. In July, a grand jury was convened to look into the death of San Diego resident Anastasio Hernandez Rojas. After our second Border Patrol piece aired, six members of Congress released a joint statement condemning the alleged abuses and called for action. Now, as Juan Carlos Frey reports, the in-house oversight arm of the Department of Homeland security has added an investigation of Rojas' death to its 2013 strategic plan. In the video, the second installment of our ongoing investigation into alleged abuses by U.S. Border Patrol agents from July 2012, correspondent John Larson investigates stories of physical abuse, sexual assault and even torture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuJClimdXp0

Crossing the line at the border: Part I: Anastasio Hernandez Rojas

 

Crossing the line at the border: Part I: Anastasio Hernandez Rojas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUyy85t8E_U

Oct 5, 2012- In partnership with the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute, Need to Know investigates whether U.S. border agents have been using excessive force in an effort to curb illegal immigration. Eight people have been killed along the border in the past two years. One man died a short time after being beaten and tased, an event recorded by two eyewitnesses whose video is the centerpiece of the report. Both eyewitnesses say the man offered little or no resistance. One told Need to Know that she felt like she watched someone being "murdered," and the San Diego coroner's office classified the death as a "homicide."