EXCLUSIVE: Border Patrol Use of Force on Marine Veteran’s Father Raises Serious Accountability Questions

The disturbing video of Narciso Barranco, a Southern California landscaper and father to Marine veteran Alejandro Barranco, being violently restrained by masked U.S. Border Patrol agents brings into sharp focus ongoing abuses tied to immigration enforcement under the Biden administration. Barranco, who entered the United States from Mexico in the 1990s without legal status, was detained in a confrontation outside an IHOP restaurant in Santa Ana. Video footage circulating on social media reveals agents pinning him to the ground and striking him repeatedly while he appears to defend himself amid screams of pain. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) insists...