Unfortunately we've hearing way too many of these stories over the past several years to the point where it they no longer sound like "aberrations", but systemi

Unfortunately we've hearing way too many of these stories over the past several years to the point where it they no longer sound like "aberrations", but systemic abuses. Unfortunately they aren't backed by hard data... because CBP/TS/HS aren't wont to publish stats on how many people they've needlessly and humiliated (or worse) at border checkpoints. But taken together with recent trends which we do have hard data for (for example, the ACLU's stats in the phenomenal expansion of detention facilities for immigrants suspected of illegal entry... and the abusive practices that transpire within) suggest that very disturbing trends are taking hold. All that is reported here sounds like an aberration, ...