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Among the report’s key findings from its study of the Rochester Station:
- From 2006 to 2009, there were 2,743 transportation arrests.
- Despite the Border Patrol’s mission of policing the border, transportation raids did not target recent border-crossers. From 2006 to 2009, less than 1 percent of transportation raid arrests were made at entry. The vast majority of individuals arrested, 76 percent, had been in the United States for more than one year.
- Interior transportation raid arrests represent the majority of the Border Patrol’s Rochester Station border arrests despite the fact that they occur far from any point-of-entry into the country.
- Agents widely violate established arrest procedures in the course of transportation raids. In 77 percent of transportation raid arrests between 2006 and 2009, Rochester Station officers violated the two-officer rule, which requires that someone other than the arresting officer examine the person who was arrested and determine whether to commence removal proceedings.
- Despite the immense human and financial costs of overzealous detention, the data reveals that more than 73 percent of individuals arrested were then placed in a detention facility rather than released while awaiting the adjudication of their case.
- CBP should end its practice of raids on domestic trains and buses.
- To the extent that Customs and Border Protection, the federal agency that manages the Border Patrol, continues to engage in interior enforcement operations, it should ensure that it does so only in situations involving specific suspicion that an individual has crossed the border illegally, with proper constitutional and procedural protections in place.
- State and local police should refrain from enforcing federal immigration laws, includ¬ing by engaging in interior enforcement operations with Border Patrol agents and requesting translation assistance from Border Patrol.
- CBP should discontinue any use of arrest-based performance measures.
- The governor and attorney general of New York should monitor CBP’s interior operations to ensure that the rights of New York residents are protected.