Posted on 08/10/2005 7:35:36 AM PDT by kellynla
A U.S. Border Patrol agent accused of being an illegal alien and smuggling other illegals into the United States faces a bail hearing today in federal court in San Diego. Oscar Antonio Ortiz, 28, a Mexican citizen born in Tijuana, is charged with using a fraudulent birth certificate to obtain a job with the agency in 2001 and alien smuggling. The numbered certificate claimed he was born in Chicago, although authorities have since discovered it belonged to a man born a month earlier. Mr. Ortiz, who was assigned at the agency's El Cajon field station 35 miles east of San Diego, pleaded not guilty to the felony charges during a hearing Friday. He was ordered held until today's bail review before U.S. Magistrate Judge Anthony J. Battaglia. Law-enforcement authorities said Mr. Ortiz and another unidentified Border Patrol agent became the targets of an undercover investigation after they were overheard on intercepted telephone conversations discussing on "many occasions" the smuggling of migrants into the United States through a border area near Tecate, which they patrolled. Transcripts from the intercepted calls show the unidentified agent told a family member in May that he and Mr. Ortiz smuggled several dozen people into the country and had been paid fees ranging from $300 to $2,000 a person.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
"Mr. Bonner said the FBI used to conduct background investigations on all Border Patrol applicants, but the job has since been turned over to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM). Currently, he said, some background checks are not being completed until the agents have been in the field for months. "It's a two-minute phone call to verify whether the number (on the birth certificate) matches the name," Mr. Bonner said. "Any rookie who is trained in immigration law could have figured that out." OPM officials in Washington referred inquiries on the background checks to a voice mailbox that was full. A second call was referred to an OPM office in Pennsylvania, where a spokeswoman directed further inquiries to the same voice mailbox."
BTTT
Not surprising.
If this guy could get HIRED and trained as a border patrolman, why couldn't one of OBL's men have done the same thing ??? And if the charges are correct, this guy could be (have been) a major SECURITY THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES.
Just another security risk, courtesy of Washington, DC.
How about the high level Government officials who "aid illegal aliens" all the time with their pro-illegal policies and non-enforcement of border control.
This guy is small potatoes.
ya wouldn't be referring to GWB now would ya? LOL
Yes, when I first read that memo, I was screaming at every image of Bush that I saw. I hold HIM AND THE CONGRESS 100% responsible for our policies, and anything that happens to this country because of this "BORDER TREASON"...
Well, I wouldn't want to get the boot, so no.
RUN THE OTHER WAY!
Anyone who believes this incompetent government is capable of handling ANYTHING needs to read this!
"Anyone who believes this incompetent government is capable of handling ANYTHING needs to read this!"
Thank you!
that's why I posted it!
thank you
needs to be repeated.
He might not, but I would.
What is the date of this? Just curious.
Not much else to say.
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