CBP Critical Incident Teams are used to process critical incidents involving their own agents. Effective October, that will no longer be the case.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a memo last week announcing that Border Patrol Critical Incident Teams, which have been accused of covering up official wrongdoing, will no longer be used in the processing of critical incidents involving CBP agents starting in October. the Government Accountability Office in a letter to investigate the use of the critical incident teams to process critical incident scenes.
According to the Government Accountability Office,"Border Patrol has not collected and recorded, or reported to Congress, complete data on migrant deaths, or disclosed associated data limitations," the report states. Previous guidelines required that the use of critical incident teams be done under the supervision of an OPR commander. Effective Oct. 1, 2022, the OPR will be assigned complete responsibility for that function, the memo stated.
In a news release, the Southern Border Communities Coalition commended the CBP and Magnus for being"responsive to community concerns" and haltering a practice that had been carried out in secrecy for more than three decades.Marisol García Alcantara, 37, was suspected of trying to enter the U.S. illegally in June 2021 after CBP agents found her sitting in the back seat of a vehicle they detained at the border.
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