Impunity in the Borderlands: A Conversation with WOLA’s Adam Isacson

On a new in-depth report on CBP abuses "the sheer breadth of which is shocking," says the longtime human rights expert. And what Congress and the Biden administration can do about it today.

A Border Patrol agent arrests a person. (Photo credit: CBP)

So often, CBP’s abuses of migrants and of borderland residents are treated as separate incidents. “We have documented a reality that—when viewed together, not as a drumbeat of isolated episodes—is frankly shocking,” Adam Isacson and Zoe Martens write in a new report titled Abuses at the U.S.-Mex…