Human Rights Watch: US: Agents Block, Mistreat Mexican Asylum Seekers

In a new report, Human Rights Watch finds that

"United States Border Patrol agents are denying asylum access to families fleeing violence in Mexico, treating them abusively and dismissively, and returning them to the country they fled in fear.

Current practices violate US and international human rights law, and border patrol agents violate both the right to seek asylum and to receive humane treatment in custody.

The current and upcoming administrations should ensure that training for agents emphasizes that people have a right to seek asylum, and that agents are required to treat people humanely and communicate in a language they understand."

KJ