Video Appears To Show Border Patrol Agent Run Over Migrant

Disturbing footage has emerged showing a U.S. Border Patrol agent striking a migrant with a vehicle along the U.S.-Mexico border.

According to Border Report, U.S. border officials are looking into a video that shows an agent striking a migrant along the border wall with a marked unit.

An unknown person took the video late last month just south of the border in Tijuana.

The video has been circulating on social media.

Main image, a Border Patrol car drags tires in the sand to make it easier to look for footprints next to the U.S.-Mexico border fence in the Yuha desert near Calexico, California, on December 30,... Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images

The collision propels a man into the air before they crash onto a dirt road.

Newsweek has contacted Customs and Border Protection for comment via email outside of working office hours.

The video begins with a group of migrants using a ladder to scale a first barrier and move toward a second border fence in an attempt to enter the U.S. from Tijuana.

As sirens wail in the distance, several individuals climb a taller ladder to overcome the second border wall.

In the video, an agent is seen rapidly approaching in an SUV. A man appears to brace for impact as he's struck and thrown to the ground. He quickly recovers and sprints back toward Mexico.

A CBP spokesperson told Border Report that the incident is being reviewed by CBP's Office of Professional Responsibility and the United States Attorney's Office.

Advocacy groups have blasted the incident, calling it a "brazen act to injure a human being."

Pedro Rios, director of the American Friends Service Committee in San Diego, told Border Report: "There was no intent to stop or put the brakes on that vehicle.

"Whatever Border Patrol agent is driving that vehicle, there's no intention of stopping, drives straight forward to where there are two individuals purposefully striking one of them.

"There is no policy that states that a Border Patrol agent has a right to use their vehicle to strike a human being. It's completely unconscionable that the Border Patrol agent would use the vehicle to strike a person with the intention of hitting them—raises questions for me, about whether the Border Patrol agent had used his vehicle in the past as an instrument to cause pain and suffering, and that's concerning."

Rios said that he has asked the Department of Justice's Office of Professional Responsibility to conduct an investigation.

Newsweek revealed hundreds of U.S. border officers are under investigation for alleged misconduct.

Official figures seen by Newsweek show that 211 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers face accusations ranging from serious crime, such as drug smuggling, to noncriminal misconduct.

The documents show 17 alleged cases of domestic violence, 11 cases of sexual assault, and 10 cases of smuggling migrants across the border.

Footage emerged in July of the horrific moment a migrant, trapped on top of the U.S.-Mexico border wall in California, fell to her death as Border Patrol agents attempted to reassure her that help was on the way.

CBP bodycam footage shows the woman was stuck for at least 24 minutes, pleading for help several times before she plunged from the top of the 30-foot wall.

The victim was identified as 24-year-old Petronila Elizabeth Poma Perez, a Guatemalan national.