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: Legal Pad | LASan Diego ACLU partners with Mexican non-profit on challenging border policy
By Jason Siegel
The San Diego chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union and Mexico's Commission on Human Rights announced they are teaming up in June to challenge the U.S. government's border enforcement policy, Operation Gatekeeper.
Under the 1994 policy, more border fencing was built and Border Patrol was increased. While the number of people crossing into San Diego dropped, people crossed into more dangerous areas instead, leading to an increase in deaths, KPBS reported. (LISTEN)
"The fence keeps getting larger. Deaths have increased. And so it is incumbent on us to try again to figure out how to stop this inhumane waste of life," Kevin Keenan, executive director of the ACLU chapter, told KPBS.
Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on April 22, 2008 (boomark / email).
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