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Is The Border Patrol Accountable to Anyone?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Lower courts have consistently ruled against the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies. But at the Supreme Court, the conservative majority almost always reverses lower court opinions, even in the most shocking cases. Last week, justices ruled that a Customs and Border Protection agent cannot be sued for shooting and killing a Mexican teenager in 2010, presenting the grim prospect that federal agents are free to act with impunity.  Guest: Mark Joseph Stern covers the courts and the law for Slate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:21.4

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0:25.1

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0:29.1

Okay, here we go.

0:35.3

Mark Joseph Stern covers the Supreme Court for Slate.

0:38.4

He's been thinking a lot about this decision that came down last week.

0:41.8

It's about an incident that happened back in 2010.

0:45.0

When this Border Patrol agent, a guy named Jesus Mesa, shot and killed a Mexican teenager

0:51.1

in the middle of the day.

0:52.5

Maybe we're all just really cynical about customs and border protection and ice at this point,

0:57.7

but it seems to me like this is a pretty momentous case and the consequences could be

1:03.0

absolutely devastating.

1:05.0

This case is called Hernandez versus Mesa.

1:07.4

We'll get to the consequences of it in a second, but the facts, they are pretty devastating

1:13.5

too.

1:14.5

Yeah, it's funny.

1:15.5

I've heard a lot of people talk about this case and whenever I read about the facts

1:20.5

in the case, I think of myself as a teenager.

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