translated from Spanish: Trapped in deadly persecution: the hunt for migrants in the US

this research was originally published in ProPublica and Los Angeles Times A measure that modern law enforcement agencies move away from persecutions at high speed, unless is in the case of violent suspects, U.S. border patrol agents allows a wide freedom to catch people trying to enter the country illegally, a practice that often ends in horrific injuries and, sometimes, death, agreement to a Research of ProPublica and the Times.
At speeds which experts consider as very unsafe, agents box to the moving vehicles, punctured tires and employ tactics aimed at making cars get out of the road.
They are dangerous persecution despite knowing that cars are children who do not carry since the seat belt, or that are loaded well above its capacity. To achieve them often are people screaming and banging from inside the trunks of cars.
Every nine days, on average, these chases end in a shock. One caused a fire that spread over 20 acres. In another, a dozen bystanders were injured and six immigrants, among them a 6 year old girl who was injured and required support vital.
Only in the last four years, on the U.S. side of the border, at least 250 people were injured and 22 died after being persecuted by the border patrol.
The border patrol did not provide these numbers, nor complied with requests seeking to document what the agents once a suspected smuggler does not comply with the order to stop a car.
Reporters are submerged in more than 9,000 federal criminal complaints filed against alleged smugglers of people between 2015 and 2018, to create a database on the activities of the border patrol and the tactics used in the past four years. The documents describe reasons for agents to initiate a prosecution, if there was an accident and how it happened. The database is, almost certainly incomplete – does not include cases in which the driver escaped or died, since complaints arise only after the arrests. Also includes the persecution for other crimes, including the smuggling of drugs.
The analysis, the first of its kind, shows that border patrol agents were involved in more than 500 incidents in California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona border districts. One of every three ended in a crash.
The danger has increased in the two years of the Presidency of Donald Trump, who said the illegal crossing of the border as a national emergency. Arrests for smuggling along the border have increased by 25 per cent, and collisions, at 42 per cent. Among the injured were border patrol agents. One was hit by debris while trying to puncture a tire; Another was dragged at least 30 feet.
Last year was the most active in all districts in the period under review, even though arrests for illegal border crossings have not increased significantly compared to previous years.
The increase can be attributed to a number of factors: the aggressive immigration agenda of Trump; the increase in the deportation of residents of long term, then trying to return with their families living in the United States; the unprecedented violence in the past two years in Mexico, generated by the posters, a point of common origin between many of the cases examined immigrants.
The dangerous trend of persecution continued in 2019.
Feb. 19 in San Diego County, the persecutions to the border patrol high-speed ended in two major crashes, including one in which a smuggler’s car was passed a traffic light in red and crashed against a truck , dying the smuggler and an immigrant.
The Justin Castrejon border patrol agent, reporting to reporters after one of the clashes, said: “This is just one example of the dangers that the smugglers of aliens exposed to people”. And he added: “We have a very accurate Chase policy”. He also said that the clashes were ‘something that we experience from time to time as the border patrol agents’…
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Original source in Spanish