The Region - News from Aug. 25, 1986
The Immigration and Naturalization Service is investigating allegations by two Mexican men who say that U.S. Border Patrol agents punched and kicked them and dragged one man behind a three-wheel dirt bike for 100 yards after running over him and breaking his arm. Border Patrol spokesman Gene Smithburg initially discounted the allegations as “far-fetched,” but in a later telephone interview he said the agency is investigating the complaint.
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