Border Security
Immigrants entering country illegally becoming more aggressive, Border Patrol official says
Immigrants entering country illegally becoming more aggressive, Border Patrol official says
Published December 29, 2014
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Undocumented migrants arrested in the
Arizona desert increasingly mount resistance and behave more aggressively
during detentions, Border Patrol agents working in the state said.
"In recent years, undocumented
immigrants' aggressiveness has increased and that is something we face when we
patrol the desert," Art Del Cueto, president of the union representing
Border Patrol agents in Arizona, told Efe.
Del Cueto recalled that when he began his
career as a Border Patrol agent 12 years ago, during his first arrest of
illegal immigrants he alone stopped 80 people and all of them followed his
instructions without objection.
"Now, when we stop two or three
people, often we find that, at least, one of them is aggressive," he said.
On Dec. 7, the Border Patrol's Tucson
Sector reported that one of its officers had been assaulted by a Mexican
migrant near the town of Gu Vo.
The agent suffered facial injuries near an
eye and required 22 stitches, the Border Patrol said.
The assailant, identified as Carlos Manuel
Pena Nieblas, fled and is wanted by U.S. authorities.
"This incident is under investigation
and it is another example of the dangers Border Patrol officers face
daily," Del Cueto said.
The union leader expressed disappointment
because incidents in which officers are assaulted do not receive the same media
attention as when the presumptive victim is an undocumented migrant.
The year is coming to a close for the
Border Patrol in the Rio Grande Valley Sector in Texas with an FBI
investigation of a telephone call to La Joya police notifying them of the
supposed abduction of a Border Patrol agent by a Mexican drug cartel.
Last week, at the border crossing in San
Ysidro, California, a man with an outstanding arrest warrant was arrested when
he tried to cross the border and attacked an agent.
More agents became involved in the brawl
and one of them used a taser.
The electric shock left the man
unconscious and he later died.
During fiscal year 2014, which ended on
Sept. 30, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP, registered 373 attacks on
Border Patrol agents, with most of them on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Tucson CBP Sector accounted for the
largest number of assaults, with 99 incidents, followed by the Rio Grande
Valley Sector in Texas, with 89 cases
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