Submitted to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, Border and Maritime Security Subcommittee (March 1, 2016)
In January, 2011, the ACLU of New Mexico Regional Center for Border Rights (RCBR) released the report Outsourcing Responsibility: The Human Cost of Privatized Immigration Detention in Otero County detailing inhumane detention practices in the Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral, N.M. RCBR Program Coordinator Emily Carey, the report’s author, compiled the information from numerous site visits and over 40 interviews with current and past detainees.
The ACLU of New Mexico Regional Center for Border rights published a report in April 2016, Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Living in New Mexico’s 100-Mile Zone, that highlights the abuse, indignity, and discrimination that Border Patrol inflicts upon communities in southern New Mexico.
