U.S. Congress Moves Towards the Establishment of Immigration Enforcement Review Commission Act for Monitoring Alleged Human Rights Abuses of the Border Patrol

On September 29, 1993, hearings before the Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives make the creation of a more neutral body to monitor alleged human rights abuses and operations of the border patrol. The problems of human rights abuses on the Mexican-U.S. Border have triggered diplomatic protests by the Mexican Government, bilateral negotiations, and Mexico’s actions to strengthen human rights protections for illegal aliens on the border…[more]