Posted on 09/14/2013 5:54:55 PM PDT by markomalley
A Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent was arrested Friday for conspiring to smuggle illegal aliens into the country.
Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers arrested David Alexander Díaz-Torres in Orlando, Fla., according to the Justice Department.
Díaz-Torres and five others were charged in a 13-count indictment for bringing, transporting, harboring, and shielding illegal aliens within the United States.
According to a Justice Department press release, a group of Brazilian nationals were smuggled through the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Díaz-Torres allegedly allowed the Brazilians through a TSA security checkpoint without questioning them.
The group then flew to New York, Boston, and Philadelphia on commercial flights.
“It is very troubling when law enforcement authorities have to arrest a corrupt federal employee who is alleged to have undermined our nation’s security, our overall safety, and the public trust and confidence we place in those chosen to protect and serve,” A U.S. attorney said in a statement.
“The Justice Department’s commitment to preventing human smuggling, bringing smugglers to justice and assisting victims has never been stronger.”
Aliens and TSA
I don’t understand why the government cares. I mean, Washington wants them to come, right? Now they’re here. What difference at this point does it make how they got here?
At least he wasn’t smuggling any bottlers over 3oz. Imagine the disaster that could have caused!
His bosses break the law and nothing happens! Why should he be treated any different?
Let this fellow get this behind him and let's just move on!
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Never trust those TSA, FEMA, FBI, ATF, ICE, etc. agents with hyphenated last names - they’re always up to no good and that is without racial profiling.
Interesting choice of words. Nothing about stopping illegal immigration.
DHS flouts the diversity of CBP, yet the vast majority of CBP employees caught playing both sides of the ball are from that group.
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