In
December 2014, the ACLU requested the full investigative files on complaints
filed by minors “in order to shed light on longstanding allegations of abusive
treatment of children by Border Patrol.” A year ago, after filing suit, the
ACLU began to receive thousands of pages of documents from the case files of
408 complaints filed from early 2009 through mid-2015…
By
John Carlos Frey and Brian Epstein, ABC News
September
14, 2017
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| Jahveel Ocampo. Photo: ABC News |
In
December of 2009, 15-year old high school student Jahveel Ocampo, her boyfriend
and a few of his family members decided to drive east from Encinitas,
California, up into the mountains to see the first big snowfall of winter.
They
pulled over to a rest stop to use the bathroom and were suddenly blocked by an
unmarked truck. A man in a dark blue jacket shouted from the vehicle, Ocampo
would say later, directing her and her boyfriend to get out of the car with
their hands up.
Ocampo
says she had no idea what was happening – until the man asked her where she was
born. When she replied, “Tijuana,” she says the man demanded to know whether
she was an “illegal.”
He
slapped handcuffs on her and her boyfriend and within minutes they were
surrounded by several Border Patrol vehicles. Ocampo was separated from her
boyfriend, loaded into the back of a car and driven away.[…]
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