Border Patrol Arrests Violated Policy, Agency Concedes
Monday, June 28, 2004 at 11:58PM
TheSpook
Border Patrol agents who arrested more than 400 undocumented immigrants
during sweeps in Riverside and San Bernardino counties earlier this
month acted against a Department of Homeland Security policy requiring
agents to clear such operations with their Washington headquarters,
officials said Friday. The undersecretary of Homeland Security, Asa
Hutchinson, accepted the request of a group of California legislators
Friday to review the operation and, during a meeting with them,
acknowledged that the agents had broken department policy. [more]
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