Shocking instances of sexual and physical abuse of asylum seekers at the southern US border by federal officers have been uncovered by HRW, after a years-long battle to wrestle the information from the DHS. MsReads via GuardianUS
Shocking instances of sexual and physical abuse of asylum seekers at the southern US border by federal officers have been uncovered by Human Rights Watch, after a years-long battle to wrestle the information from the Department of Homeland Security under freedom of information laws.
A stash of redacted documents released to the human rights group after six years of legal tussles uncover more than 160 cases of misconduct and abuse by leading government agencies, notably Customs and Border Protection and US Border Patrol. record events between 2016 and 2021 that range from child sexual assault to enforced hunger, threats of rape and brutal detention conditions.Human Rights Watch said that the documents “paint a picture of DHS as an agency that appears to have normalized shocking abuses at the US border. The US should take urgent and sustained action to stop such abuses”.
The newly released documents record a case of alleged child sexual abuse reported by a supervisor in the San Francisco asylum office. An asylum officer interviewed “a young child who was sexually molested by someone we believe to be a CBP or Border Patrol Officer … The young girl was forced to undress and touched inappropriately by a guard wearing green”.Another report recounts an incident in 2018 when a male asylum seeker was detained and taken to a detention center in San Ysidro, California.
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