Death on the Border: Were Twin Brothers Hunting Migrants or Wildlife?

In 2018, some of those detainees complained of abusive treatment including assaults and racial insults, according to a report by researchers from Texas A&M University School of Law, the University of Texas School of Law and Raices, a nonprofit focused on immigrant legal services. The detainees, mostly men from Somalia who were in the process of being deported, told the researchers that they had been mistreated by staff members, including the warden. One detainee accused the warden, who was Mr. Sheppard at the time, of hitting and kicking him; another said he had used racial insults. A subsequent investigation by the Office of the Inspector General for the federal Department of Homeland Security could not substantiate the detainees’ claims.

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