There is a subculture of cruelty within the Border Patrol—and, more
broadly, within the entire machinery of the U.S. deportation regime. From
the ranks of frontline Border Patrol agents to the guards in private,
for-profit detention facilities, the abuse of detainees is widely tolerated
and even accepted. This is the central finding to emerge from the second
wave of the Migrant Border Crossing Study (MBCS). Wave II of the MBCS
is currently housed in the Center for Latin American Studies at the University
of Arizona and the Department of Sociology at George Washington University.
The survey is a study of 1,110 randomly selected, recently repatriated
migrants who were surveyed in six Mexican cities between 2009 and 2012.
The results of this study are being released in a series of three reports
titled Bordering on Criminal: The Routine Abuse of Migrants in the Removal System. -
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