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Report: Border Patrol Misappropriated Funds and Failed to Provide Proper Medical Care to Accurately Report Migrant Deaths

Loaded on May 1, 2021 by Douglas Ankney published in Prison Legal News May, 2021, page 52
Filed under: Government Misconduct, Cost of Prison Systems, Immigration Law/Offenses. Location: United States of America.

by Douglas Ankney

As a surge in migrants apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border made headlines in March 2020, the federal agency in charge was still trying to address deficiencies uncovered in an oversight report released the summer before.

According to a July 2020 report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office ...

 

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