Thread: Groups ask Border Patrol to end car chases

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Groups ask Border Patrol to end car chases

Associated Press
Aug. 23, 2006 03:28 PM


TUCSON - A border rights coalition asked federal officials Wednesday to suspend Border Patrol high-speed chases pending a review of a Yuma-area rollover two weeks ago that resulted in multiple deaths.

The letter from the Los Angeles-based Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law also asked Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and the heads of Customs and Border Protection and the Border Patrol to update Border Patrol hot pursuit policies.

The letter was sent on behalf of the Border Human Rights Working Group, a coalition of organizations involved in human rights advocacy in the four states bordering Mexico.

It also sought through a Freedom of Information request copies of all Border Patrol documents concerning the Yuma chase and crash and policies and training materials concerning high-speed chases.

Nine of 20 illegal immigrants crammed into a sport utility vehicle died Aug. 7 after a rollover when its driver swerved to avoid a spike strip set on a road by a Border Patrol agent.

A 10th passenger died last week in a Phoenix hospital, and on Monday, Yuma County authorities raised the death toll to 11, including the death of a fetus of a pregnant woman who had died.

Calls to spokesmen for the Department of Homeland Security in Washington were not returned immediately.

Tell ya what....


You stop bringing in illegal aliens.......


and we'll stop chasing them?


DUH!!!!!!!

The Border Patrol does have a no chase policy, but maybe not in all states. The way I read the story the BP tried to stop the van and the driver sped off, the BP radioed ahead where another agent threw out the stop stick.
The driver was speeding hoping to get away, the stop stick is used to slow him down so he doesn't crash into others.
The Border Patrol were only doing their job, protecting the public!
How can they be resposible for the actions of someone breaking the law?

Good point mountaindog...
These border rights people need to move to Mexico.