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BP Incident Reports
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If you are stopped or arrested by a Border Patrol officer, hand the officer the card on the right or read it to him. You can print this page and cutout the card or copy the information to carry with you. Don't run but don't give them too much information or give away your rights either. Secrecy may be in your best interests - unless you are stopped or arrested by the Border Patrol. Then it's much safer to let people know what's happening to you. The Border Patrol already knows way too much about you by then. Call your family, church, employer, the newspapers, us, elected officials, even the police. Get as much attention as you can. There are some useful contacts on our links. Add your own and carry them with you.
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Document incidents you have witnessed regarding Border Patrol checkpoints, questioning, surveillance, harassment, etc. Even if you have experienced reverse profiling - you were not stopped, questioned or profiled, when others were - that is significant. We are gathering these facts to share information with our elected representatives. Information may also be shared with news organizations and other groups concerned about the protection of civil rights. We want to speak out and tell our stories. Secrecy is our enemy. But be careful and don't include information you don't want to be made public.
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1/22/12 Forks Human Rights Analysis of Border Patrol Activities The Forks Human Rights group has developed an important analysis of recent Border Patrol activities in and around Forks. The Analysis seems to be a good way to protect individuals' identities and still get these stories out. Statement as dictated to Patsy Brown on June 8, 2011 On Friday, June 3, 2011 our family was driving from Forks to Port Angeles to apply for our youngest son’s passport. We are planning to relocate to our home of origin, Mexico this summer when our oldest child’s school term ends. We met a Border Patrol vehicle driving west-bound on Highway 101 close to the Sol Duc Bridge where Mr. Benjamin Roldan Salinas was last seen alive. We almost always pass Border Patrol vehicles when we drive this stretch of road. This time we noticed the patrol car turned around and followed us. My three-year-old son announced that he had to go to the bathroom. I asked him to wait a bit but he started to cry. At the Fairholm Store we pulled over and I took him to a wooded area to go pee. The Border Patrol car stopped as well but only observed us. After I put my son back in his car seat and we had started to pull out, the agent ran to our car waving at us to stop. He approached the van and asked us if we had permission to be in the country. An unmarked truck arrived with two plain-clothed men who appeared to be co-workers of the agents based on their interaction with them. We were forthright with the agents. I have a visa, (although they did press me for a “green card”). My husband does not have a permit whatsoever. Our three children are United States citizens. We had long ago agreed that if we were ever stopped we would not run, rather comply as the agents have a job to do just like the rest of us. We are peaceful people who try to do what God wills us to do. We pleaded with the agents for leniency as we were going to Port Angeles in preparation for leaving the country this summer, but they stated that they had no other option than to take my husband. We are aware of another individual who was apprehended in the woods. By crying and begging she avoided arrest. My husband is currently detained at the Tacoma Federal Detention Center. They took him to the Mexican Consulate where he was informed that he will be removed from the country. They told him that he had signed a voluntary departure request in Port Angeles. He told me that he remembers the agents telling him to sign a form but when he asked them what it was they told him they didn’t have time to explain it to him. They told him he had to sign it though. We think he will be returned to Mexico on Saturday, June 11th. We believe that possibly the agents followed us this time because my husband participated in the search party for Mr. Roldan Salinas. We have been told that agents took down license plate numbers and photographed the vehicles parked in the area during the search efforts. We believe this because we have crossed paths with Border Patrol cars so many times and they have never followed us before. If this is not the case, then we were stopped simply because the agents noticed by our physical appearance that our ethnicity is Hispanic as they drove past us. Neither of us have criminal records nor warrants. And nothing about my husband’s driving could have been perceived as suspicious. Patsy Brown, patient advocate at Forks Community Hospital encouraged me to document our experience in case it could be helpful to your efforts. Thank you for your efforts.
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