The Lone Legislator
Latino USA
My Cultura, Futuro and iHeartPodcasts
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Support for this podcast comes from WISE, the account that lets you spend and receive money internationally. |
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| 0:44.0 | Hey there, dear listener. A quick warning. This story has some graphic references to violence and murder. |
| 0:51.0 | Over the last few years, there have been several reports of law enforcement agents on the US Mexico border going rogue. |
| 1:01.0 | Border Patrol agent Joel Luna has been dealt a 20-year prison sentence for organized criminal activity and a case involving the decapitation of a woodbeast. |
| 1:12.0 | The law has had pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute marijuana receiving a bribe in portation of a... |
| 1:18.0 | Customs and border protection agents have traffic drugs taken bribes and allegedly raped migrants in one dramatic case an agent turned out to be a serial killer. |
| 1:29.0 | Juan David Ortiz confessed to killing four women in a two-week time span in the La Rada, Texas area near the US Mexico border. |
| 1:36.0 | Ortiz was a border patrol. |
| 1:38.0 | What these individual reports reveal is just how much discretion law enforcement has while policing the border. |
| 1:45.0 | And under the Trump administration's recent policy changes, these powers have expanded even more. |
| 1:53.0 | Human rights groups have complained for months that border agents are wrongfully turning away people seeking asylum in the US. |
| 2:00.0 | The Trump administration began hearings Monday in makeshift tent courthouses in South Texas. |
| 2:06.0 | Customs and border protection is advancing a program that allows border patrol agents to conduct the first interview in the asylum process. |
| 2:13.0 | While historically there have been few attempts to increase oversight or reform, the government once actually did investigate the way policing happened on the border. |
| 2:23.0 | But that was over a hundred years ago. |
| 2:32.0 | From Futuro Media, it's Latino USA. |
| 2:35.0 | I'm Maria Inohosa. |
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