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Article: Border militarization via drug and immigration enforcement: Human rights implications.
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- Social Justice
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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ON MAY 20, 1997, A UNITED STATES MARINE ON A CLANDESTINE RECONNAISsance and drug surveillance mission for the U.S. Border Patrol shot and killed a teenager who was herding goats near the U.S.-Mexico border in Redford, Texas. It is one of the few instances during the second half of the 20th century in which a U.S. soldier killed a citizen during a domestic law enforcement mission. This encounter was fraught with misunderstanding, misperceptions, and gross errors, and it graphically illustrates the dangers to human rights posed by the militarization of domestic law enforcement. Though the latter is a broader phenomenon throughout the U.S., it has been taken to its highest ...