“Civil liberties advocates told Al Jazeera Sunday that U.S. citizens — like their undocumented counterparts — are under siege in what they said is becoming a police state around the border, after the death of a male U.S. citizen in Border Patrol custody at a checkpoint 20 miles from the border with Mexico. since 2005, 42 people have died while in Border Patrol and Customs and Border Protection custody — according to an investigation by the Arizona Republic — ‘none of which have led to a transparent investigation by the government.’ Of those who died, 13 were American nationals like Keith.”
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