Americas Watch Repeats Call for Mechanisms to Remedy Human Rights Abuses on U.S.-Mexican Border

On May 13, 1993, Americas Watch in a supplemental report, concludes that serious abuses by U.S. immigration law enforcement agents continue and calls for new mechanisms to curtail abuses and discipline. The report finds that beatings and other forms of mistreatment are still common during the arrest and detention of undocumented immigrants, U.S citizens and legal residents…[more]