Border Report – Border Report Live: Border residents urged to document incidents of abuse

EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) — The Border Network for Human Rights is getting ready to conduct its latest abuse documentation campaign.

Founded in 1998, BNHR is a border-based human rights advocacy and immigration reform organization with over 7,000 members in West Texas and Southern New Mexico.

Every year, it encourages community members to document incidents of abuse inflicted by local, state, and federal law enforcement not only along the U.S.-Mexico border but in the interior of Mexico.

The campaign runs for two months and includes setting up tables near ports of entry, as well as in churches and businesses in neighborhoods with typically high immigrant populations, from Albuquerque to Del Rio, Texas.

BNHR plans to present its findings in October.

In this week’s episode of Border Report Live, correspondent Julian Resendiz speaks with BNHR Executive Director Fernando Garcia about the abuse documentation campaign and what changes the group could see this time around. The group says they’ve already gotten first-hand accounts of abusive behavior from President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigration.

A BNHR volunteer recently described federal immigration agents arresting a parent in front of a school and forcing her children off the school bus. Other complaints include agents showing up for one person and arresting many.

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