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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThat Border Patrol agent who made migrants show their breasts (2023) sentenced to a yr in fed prison
I remember this case from 2 years ago. Glad to see outcome includes prison‐-----------------------
Court records also say Millan used his government computer to look for phrases in Spanish that he could use for his actions, some of which include:
I will also need you to lift your bra, please
Your file says you have tattoos across your chest
To verify, I will need you to lift your shirt, please
I will indeed you to lift your shirt and bra also, please
Can you lift it higher please
Border Patrol agent pleads guilty to telling women to show their breasts to enter US
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/10/border-patrol-agent-women-expose-breasts/82232289007/
Shane Millan, 54, who pleaded guilty in March to two misdemeanor counts of deprivation of rights under color of law, had been working at a Border Patrol station at Wellesley Island in Jefferson County and was using the computer to get information from the immigrants during interviews over a webcam. He had been a border patrol agent for 17 years at the time.
According to federal court records, Millan was tasked with gathering the migrants' biographical and other information and saving the data electronically so that they could remain in the United States pending further immigration proceedings. Although the immigrants had crossed the southern border, Millan was doing the work through a computer from upstate New York at a time when record numbers of migrants were entering the U.S. and the federal agency was overwhelmed.
According to prosecutors, Millan repeatedly abused his authority by requiring female immigrants to expose their breasts during these video-conference sessions, ostensibly so that he could confirm whether they had any chest tattoos.
Millan did not speak Spanish but used a translation app to learn phrases such as, I will also need you to lift your bra, please, and I will need to verify once more, can you stand in front of the monitor and lift your shirt and bra again, please, according to court records.
One of the women, who was carrying an infant, resisted when Millan told her to lift her shirt a second time. Court records indicate he told her that he would not sign her paperwork unless she showed him her bare chest again. She reluctantly placed her child on the floor and lifted her shirt.
Ex-Border Patrol agent gets prison for making migrants show breasts
https://www.timesunion.com/capitol/article/border-patrol-agent-gets-prison-making-migrants-21018000.php
whathehell
(30,548 posts)BadgerMom
(3,437 posts)I sincerely hope not, but pardoning this person and essentially sanctioning the behavior is right up you-know-whos alley.
Bettie
(19,880 posts)when I read this.
Probably get a cabinet position too, after all, he's their kind of guy.
newdeal2
(5,614 posts)He checks all of Trump's boxes. He'll probably be his personal body guard.
2naSalit
(103,812 posts)Him getting caught probably only scratched the surface of a multitude of misdeeds. Pig.
Bettie
(19,880 posts)random women off the street for any reason and since they are masked and anonymous, who knows where those women end up.
wolfie001
(7,970 posts)We'll need 3 extra SC justices to do that though.
because they sure aren't being held accountable at this point. They literally can do whatever they want to.
question everything
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