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Mark Scialla

‘Hurting people’: The ‘cover-up teams’ operating on the US border

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Maria Puga holds up a picture of her husband Anastasio Hernandez Rojas, who was killed while in United States Border Patrol custody in 2010. His death revealed the involvement of an opaque unit tasked with investigating deaths or injuries involving Border Patrol agents [Josh Rushing/Al Jazeera]

El Paso, Texas – In the early morning darkness of August 3, 2021, Lesvin Gamez rode in the back of an SUV with eight other undocumented immigrants along a rural highway in southern New Mexico.

The 23-year-old was nervous, but the thought of reuniting with his mother in Albuquerque, only 322 kilometres (200 miles) away, comforted him. This was his plan since he was a teenager, when he started giving haircuts to earn enough to pay a smuggler.

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