In a letter filed Thursday with the Department of Homeland Security, the ACLU of Arizona is calling for an investigation of "roving" border patrols, which have been cited as far 60 miles north of the Mexico border. The order comes just two weeks after the ACLU won a settlement in Seattle, Wash. over roving patrols, and two days after Arizona police used pepper spray to break up an impromptu immigration rally in Tucson involving the Border Patrol.
In their letter they outline a number of abuses allegedly perpetrated by Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) in Arizona: