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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

After Leaked Photos Expose Unaccompanied Child Crisis, Border Patrol Agents Threatened With Firings

Last week, photos surfaced from Texas and Arizona showing Border Patrol processing centers overwhelmed as thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America continue to need shelter and resources. The photos show hundreds of children sleeping in crowded, chain linked cages. Agents have described the situation as a humanitarian crisis.

In response to the leaked images out of Arizona, Patrol Agent in Charge Leslie Lawson is cracking down on the use of personal technology by agents in the Nogales Border Patrol processing center.

"Due to the recent unauthorized use of a personally owned electronic device in the Nogales Processing Center, the use of such devices will be restricted to locations outside of detention areas," Lawson wrote in a June 6 memo to all employees at the Nogales station. "Effective immediately, the use of personally owned cellular phones, cameras, or recording devices in the Nogales Detention Facility and the Nogales Processing Center is strictly prohibited. All personnel working or visiting detention facilities at the Nogales Station will be required to turn off these electronic devices and store them in a locker other secure location prior to entering the detention area."

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sooo, if there are no pictures, no crimes will be committed. I guess with the new policy in place, gassing the kids may now proceed...

Anonymous said...

What type of parent sends their children to another country without knowing where they are or will be. Not knowing if they will have food or shelter or anything else. This is sickening. Send them back to their home county and let them take care of their own. We have enough problems without other countries dumping theirs here too.

Anonymous said...

That's right, if no one can prove it... It didn't happen. Those people are the worst child molesters of all.

Jim said...

Anyone who tells the truth will be fired. Sounds reasonable to me.

Anonymous said...

These so called children are mostly teen agers many involved in gang activity. Things are so out of control they are having sex right out in the open in the detention areas and no doubt producing anchor babies. These low level gang members are being smuggled in through Mexico by the higher level gang members for money. The smugglers must be paying off agents in Mexico because under normal circumstances Mexicans can't stand South Americans and would detain them and then send them due south back to where they came from.
Don't fall for the "children" nonsense. Just another obama lie. These are dangerous individuals.