On Thursday, November 3 at 19:30 GMT:
This week, a United States regulation enforcement company will for the primary time face a human rights fee over its position within the alleged torture and killing of a person in its custody.
The case, which rights teams are hoping will function a reckoning for the way in which US regulation enforcement operates, entails the nation’s Customs and Border Safety (CPB), which is beneath the Division of Homeland Safety. It is going to be heard by the Inter American Fee on Human Rights (IACHR), a Washington DC-based group that works to advertise and shield human rights within the Americas.
Critics say the CPB, the biggest regulation enforcement company within the US, has operated with impunity for years, whereas rising in dimension and energy. At explicit problem has been its use of Crucial Incident Groups (CITs), which have been accused of protecting up brokers’ crimes and shielding them from accountability.
Earlier this 12 months, the US authorities disbanded CITs after an investigation, however rights advocates say this doesn’t resolve the underlying downside. In a press release launched by greater than 200 rights teams to the IACHR this week, advocates mentioned “Till and until the USA’ use-of-force normal adjustments, the killings by border brokers, police, and different regulation enforcement will proceed, and justice shall be denied in all however the uncommon few circumstances.”
On this episode of the Stream, we’ll focus on a brand new Fault Traces documentary on the CPB, the listening to into the CPB’s conduct and what it’s going to take to reform it.
On this episode of The Stream, we converse with:
Andrea Guerrero, @guerreroandi
Govt Director, Alliance San Diego
Reece Jones, @reecejonesuh
Political Geographer
Creator, “No one is Protected: How the Border Patrol Turned the Most Harmful Police Power in the USA”
Shaw Drake, @shawdrake1
Lawyer, ACLU