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Report Says Border Patrol Agents Abused Thousands Of Illegal Immigrants | The Arizona nonprofit No More Deaths surveyed more than 12,000 undocumented immigrants from 2008 to 2011. According to their report “A Culture of Cruelty,” 2,981 of the returned migrants said “they were denied food during Border Patrol Detention, 863 reported being denied water, and of the 433 people who says the needed medical attention, 86 percent reported they were denied care.” Others, the report says, were “threatened with death, deprived of sleep and forced to hold painful or strenuous positions for no apparent reason.” Altogether, the report declares the abuses “plainly meet the definition of torture under international law.” The Border Patrol responded, insisting that “agents make every effort to ensure that people in our custody are given food, water and medical attention as needed” and, if found to be doing otherwise, “will be identified and appropriate disciplinary action will be taken.”