Posted on 02/17/2012 4:05:46 PM PST by Hunton Peck
The FBI says a fatal shooting in a Southern California Immigration and Customs Enforcement office occurred as an agent was being counseled on his performance by a high-ranking ICE official.
Federal officials on Friday identified the gunman as 45-year-old supervisory special agent Ezequiel Garcia and the victim as 51-year-old Kevin Kozak...
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/johnny
He was apparently terminated.
That’s the kind of stuff that ends up on your performance review.
Hate crime?
“You can’t fire me! I’m dead!”
Unfortunately, the hiring standards for Spanish Speakers is so appallingly low, you get some folks who really don't have any business with a gun and a badge.
If you're fluent, the background investigation is essentially thrown out.
CBP (another DHS agency) keeps a list of "Honor Betrayed" employees who broke the law. The astonishing over representation of people with latin surnames defies description.
Oh yeah. Goes in your permanent record, if I'm not mistaken.
/johnny
That was the first thing I wondered!
The next thing I thought was “How do you go about job counseling a guy with a gun on his hip?”
“So, we have had some complaints about your behavior. Not ME of course, I think you’re great, but others... and um, I don’t get it ‘cuz like I said, I like you.. well, not that others don’t like you but....”
ICE would easily replace the half of its Spanish-speaking agents—preferrably the half who should not have a gun or a badge (”We don’t need no stinking badges!)—with copies of Rosetta Stone’s Spanish language software and some time for their agents to learn to speak Spanish at least well enough to say, “Drop your cheese! That’s not cho’ cheese!” (Read that last sentence slowly if you are from Southern Ka-lee-for-nee-uh.)
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