Posted on 08/07/2006 8:46:01 AM PDT by radar101
Who is making bigger campaign contributions - the Border Patrol agents' union or the drug cartels?
A substantial portion of "our" government is bought and paid for.
>So Mexico runs the Border Patrol and Immigration Services?<
Looks like Bush has the Fox guarding the henhouse all right. We have met the enemy and he is.....us?????
Only indirectly. Mexico just determines White House border policy.
"So Mexico runs the Border Patrol and Immigration Services?"
They have "advisors" stationed in some of our BP headquarters. No fooling.
Something tells me the story the jury heard was quite different from what we read in this article.
From just reading the article it sounds like a serious injustice has been done to these two border patrol officers by their own government.
But based just on the evidence provided here it does not seem likely this would have made it to court and even far less likely that a jury would convict them of anything more than failure to report firing their weapons.
It doesn't add up.
It's obviously a miscarriage of justice, or we aren't getting all the facts.
It sounds kind of strange that if he thought his partner had been shot, that he would keep chasing the smuggler that he had been chasing, that was just running away rather than looking for the shooter or aiding his wounded partner. However, there's not enough information for me to doubt that his actions were reasonable in the situation, it just sounds a bit strange.
The article mentions that the fleeing smuggler was not actually armed, but how can that be considered a known fact when he was able to flee the scene?
There's just too many missing pieces to the puzzle and what there is doesn't seem to fit together. It doesn't sound like we're getting the whole story here.
How dare we treat respectable guests like that /sarc
This is what happens when someone puts a 100% effort into trying to keep drugs out of this country. Border Patrol Agent Ramos has been involed in catching over a 100 drug smuglers and has seized thousands of pounds of drugs.This story makes me ill as my son died at 27 from illegal drugs .The proscuter in this case has to be the one of the sickest people in our country. Sounds to me this whole border patrol is a total joke. What can one do as a citizen ??? anything
Agreed. WND is hardly a credible enough source to draw a fair judgment about the case.
Problem with this is in the premise that the illegal alien HAS ANY 4th amendment rights. He doesn't. He is not a citizen or even a recognized guest of this country.
The idea that the border patrol agents rights to protect themselves and their partners are inferior to the non-rights of an illegal is OUTRAGEOUS!
Attorneys and judges that "defend" civil rights of criminals while trampling on the rights of decent law-abinding citizens (who are officers, in this case) make me ILL!
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