This report examines the recent history of the US-Mexico border region; the INS’ human rights record during the 1990s; the recommendations for reform made by the CAP and INS’ Action Plan in response; recent allegations of human rights violations reported to Amnesty International and an examination of the fatal shooting of an 18-year-old US citizen in Texas by a member of a US army marine patrol while it was engaged in a covert surveillance operation in May 1997.