They were detained by Border Patrol agents shortly after crossing the border. Immigration advocates say the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General, which reviewed the sisters’ case, rarely recommends action against officers. A study by Freedom for Immigrants found that between January 2010 and July 2016, the inspector general received 84 complaints of coerced sexual contact against U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which includes Border Patrol. The sisters were taken by agents to the Presidio Border Patrol station and booked into the same holding cell. He told investigators that he processed and fingerprinted each of them before returning them to their cell.

Source: National Post October 14, 2018 14:42 UTC