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We listen, we api shoot a price for the roll against terrorism as going on in some money. We meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al jazeera did with hi everyone, im josh rushing and you are in the stream. Today were talking about a legend, human rights abuses at the Largest Law Enforcement Agency in the United States, customs and border protection, or c p b. Now, as always, look, if youre watching this on you to live, you see that it over there. That little box, we have a live stream producer there waiting to get your comments to me so i can get them to our panel. So hey, lets do this thing together, right . Ah, so this way the Inter American commission on human rights will here for the 1st time ever a case against a u. S. Law enforcement agency. The case involves the Border Patrols a legit torture and killing of a man in its custody. Critic say the Border Patrol has operated with impunity for years, yet its size and power continue to grow to they will begin snippets of our new fault lines documentary. Impunity on the border which investigated what critics are calling cover up teams within the Border Patrol. Have a listen me around the funds are pretty much the teams coming out to do all the kind of stuff and i cant even use what they teach you is you chase them until the crime. Joining us to discuss todays topic as i dre guerrero. Shes the executive director of alliance, san diego. We also have reese jones from honolulu. Hes a political geographer, an author of a great new book called. Nobody is protected. How the Border Patrol became the most Dangerous Police force in the United States. And finally shot drake from el paso, texas. Hes a senior policy counsel at the a c l. U. Also i want you to know we did reach out to c p b and Border Patrol several times to invite them on the show and for comment or at least provide some kind of video comment. But unfortunately we got no response. So or andrea help set this up for me this week, the Inter American commission on human rights. What is that . Why is it so important at this time . The entire American Commission is an International Human rights body that has jurisdiction over the americans, including the United States, and it specializes in hearing allegations of human rights. We are bringing the 1st ever case to the commission in a hearing this week. The case of anastasio nun, this row house versus the United States. And in that case, we are exposing the abuse and impunity that led to an associate death and has been a systematic problem that has taken the lives of hundreds, perhaps thousands of people in this country. This cases and our effort to seek justice. Not only differ on his solstio, but to also seek policy reforms to keep this from happening. Andre, i want to bring in honestly ceos what maria here, but we have a bite from her, and this is from the fall line show impunity on the border. Were going to put out a link to the show after this episode. If you guys want to go watch it. But here, check out what maria had to say. Go full. I said what made them do that to human being. He was a human being. He was a person who just wanted to come back to his family. What happened to my husband isnt fair was it isnt fair. They destroy the family. They left my children without their family and they killed him in the worst way. Amelia. They had me on track to you briefly tell us what actually happened to us and why is it taking 12 years for to search for accountability for the family. Well honest asha was a long time resident of san diego. He had 5 children born here and partner maria, we just saw and he wasnt able to get papers like millions of people in the United States. He didnt have a pathway to get legal status. And so when he encountered Border Patrol, they thought to deport him. They injured him in the process, he asserted his right to medical attention and they denied it and said they, they proceeded to be him torture him, shoot him with an electric taser various times. Ultimately putting him into a positional a 60 ation until he stopped breathing. That was the abuse that was chapter one of what had happened. Chapter 2 began immediately after when Border Agents went up on to the bridge, the pedestrian bridge, where there were passers by and took their cell phone video race there. The footage that they had taken of the incident, dispersed the witnesses, and over the next several weeks proceeded to do everything they could to cover up what had happened. We through this case, were able to piece together what exists in, in Border Patrol, which are cover up teams dedicated cover teams that have existed for more than 3 decades called Critical Incident teams. And it is through this case that we were able to expose their long standing work to obstruct justice as the Largest Law Enforcement Agency in the country. Andre, i want to get to the Critical Incident teams, which is the real focus of that bought winds documentary. I also want to get to the sense of impunity that youre talking about the 12 years has been no accountability for what happened yet. Tom stops you to get there though. I think 1st for our audience we need to understand a little bit more about Border Patrol shaw. How does Border Patrol stand out different than perhaps other Law Enforcement agencies . Well josh Border Patrol is the Largest Law Enforcement Agency in the United States. Like you mentioned, it has nearly 20000 agents that operate within mainly within a 100 miles down of any international boundary. Throughout the United States. Cbp as an agency has close to 60000 personnel. This is an agency that has tripled in size between the year 2000 and today both in budget and in personnel. And with that map, it massive growth has, has not come along. The type of Accountability Measures are internal oversight mechanisms that you would expect that any Law Enforcement agency, particularly one would such massive reach. And so throughout those decades weve seen Border Patrol act in extremely abusive ways and faith 0 accountability for those actions. We saw Border Patrol, use squash protests around the United States during the summer of 2020 when, when protest, black life matter. And george flood protest across the country were faced by the deployment of Border Patrol. Agents by night per unit said george floyd burial service. And the agents that kidnapped people off the street to portland, those were Border Patrol agents. And so the agency is massive, has massive reach Deploy Technology and various types of surveillance across the border region with no accountability. And thats what weve unfortunately seen throughout the last few decades and certainly sense on a 30 day incident with on a 1002010. Now something you just said, i think blows people minds when they think about Border Patrol, they think about mostly the southwestern us, the border between the us and mexico. But you just said 100 miles anywhere of the border which includes the coastline. And the incredible fact is that include what, like, 2 out of 3 americans. And yet this Law Enforcement agency that has this incredible reach seems to be playing by a different set of rules. Reese, can you touch on that . Yeah, absolutely. I think a lot of people, josh, im surprised to hear that the Border Patrol has authority in such a large area. 2 thirds of the u. S. Population. Many of the largest cities in the United States, several entire states including hawaii, where i lived, the entire state is in the border zone. And in that area, the Border Patrol has been given the special authorities that are different than regular police officers. And they, it a series of Supreme Court cases in the 1970 s that i detail in my book. Nobody is protected and gave them lower standards of evidence compared to other police to the essentially have exceptions to the 4th amendment. All other police have to have a warrant. Were have to have probable cause to stop and interrogate a vehicle one road inside United States. But in that 100 miles own, the Border Patrol has a lower standard of articulable facts of reasonable suspicion and case in 1975 at the Supreme Court laid out what those sorts of facts can be and theyre really broad. And they include rates, so the Border Patrol is allowed to do racial profiling in all of their work. They can use race as one of the factors to stop a vehicle on a road inside United States and at checkpoints. Did they set up within that 100 miles . They can use race alone as the only factor in deciding to send a vehicle to ex extra inspection. And so what we see with the Border Patrol is force that has these exceptions to the regular laws of the United States. And the result is an out of control agency that has very little accountability due to their work. They often work in very remote areas and it results in violations of the rights of american citizens and immigrants like what i need you to expand on on that just a bit in the sense that normally in the media, when we say Law Enforcement is using race and normally when we say that they are maybe stopping people without the right to what were exposing that. But what youre actually saying here is that, oh no, this is known, and it is constitutionally allowed yeah, there are 2 different ways that this isnt authorized for the Border Patrol. The 1st is in the Supreme Court cases in the 1970 s. Theres been on a pawns in 1975, and then martinez where they in 1976. And both of those cases, the Supreme Court decisions says that the Border Patrol can use race as one of the factors when they are making decisions about giving extra care scrutiny to a vehicle at a checkpoint or in a roving patrol. And this was reviewed in 2014 by the Obama Administration. Eric holder, the attorney general at the time, reviewed racial profiling for all federal agents and officers. And they band racial profiling for most of those officers. But there is an exception in a footnote for immigration officials in the Border Patrol. So even the Obama Administration continued to allow racial profiling for the Border Patrol. And so thats, thats actually, that is actually a part of our our claim before the American Commission that will be heard this week is that the systemic of use and impunity is motivated by racial animal. And i think its important for us to understand you fundamentally what is wrong with with Law Enforcement at the border. And that is that the, the standard for use of flores is so low. It is a reasonableness standard that reese pointed to, well, that reasonableness standard is not the International Human rights standards, the International Human rights, and there is necessary and proportional. And what we have gone to the American Commission to say is that the United States has violated its human rights violations. First and foremost because they have a standard so low that the Border Patrol officers only need to claim that it was reasonable to kill torture on a star seal and that will exonerate them. Thats exactly what happened. And that is why we have gone this international body. That standard must change, not just for the Border Patrol, but for all long for spent in this country. Places like mexico directly incorporate the International Human rights standard into their laws. United states does not even though they have signed on to treaty obligating them to follow the standard shock. Where were you going to take . Yeah, id also add that. I think one of the most stark, you know, examples of the way the principal is problematically, are playing out today and its detailed in the documentary is, is within the vehicle pursued the way to the Border Patrol, conduct vehicle pursuits within the particularly within the border region. Weve documented and found that the number of deaths resulting from those vehicle pursuits has gone up 11 fold in just 2 years. And this year will be the deadliest on record for people dying as a result of these, the deadly pursuits, the Border Patrol, operate again under near 0 transparency and accountability for their actions. And the case of detailed, in the fall line documentary is a really stark example of the way the consequences for a lack policy and a lack of oversight and accountability. The consequences are people dying and not, not just migrants who are fleet may be fleeing apprehension. Its also occurred to innocent bystanders, the u. S. Residency, us citizen and its at the Public Safety issue and one that results really from that, that lack of regulation and oversight of the agency and its ability to conduct the type of racial profiling activities throughout the region. So sure, sure, i want to stick with you just for a 2nd. You brought up the crash down in new mexico. And this is in the fault lines documented documentary and p d on the puerto. You were actually able to obtain a report from the Border Patrols Critical Incident team. And thats special because i think thats the only report ever made public by one of these teams. Can you touch on what you learned from that report . Yeah, absolutely. We represent the mother of a us citizen who had killed in that crash and as part of our investigation on her behalf, we uncovered a Border PatrolCritical Incident team from the past, the sector team, it was the main Team Responding to collect factual evidence from the scene of the accident. The report is problematic to say the least it has multiple areas of inconsistencies, multiple gaps a