US Border Patrol Action Alert!

8/7/2006

[A CA Guy]

Well not only did they fire their duty weapons several times and not report it, they also appeared to strike a target.

Seems all would have been OK had they followed the rules and though these guys seem honest after getting caught, in most cases we would think this is guys looking to take drugs for themselves to sell.

This was Federal and there isn't a lot of wiggle room to not follow the rules I guess.

At most they were criminal and in the least they were criminally stupid.

[Ladycalif]

PARDON US Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean- see article

WRITE THE JUDGE!

WRITE Letters of support for US Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean - letters must be addressed as follows:

Judge Kathleen Cardone
U.S. Federal Court House
El Paso, TX 79911
http://www.friendsoftheborderpatrol.org/

[kstewskis]

This absolutely makes my head spin.

Letter goes out first thing in the AM. And it won't be pretty!

[usurper]

I was all upset, but now there seems to be good reasons for a jury to find them guilty.

From everything I have read they are only guilty of a policy violation not a criminal act. We don’t prosecute policy violators, we fire them.

I believe they deserve to be fired for failure to report the shooting, but 10 to 20 years for shooting a dope smuggler in the ass is the most absurd thing I have ever heard. Murderers don’t even that much time.

Combine over zealous investigators with fanatical civil rights prosecutors (DOJ has their share), throw in a local border jury that probably hates the BP and you get a result like this.

This should be overturned on appeal.

[A CA Guy]

Last I heard, when you shoot at someone in your job in America and fail to report you shot at someone, that is probably criminal.

[spectre]

Bump to your post Lady...I'm going to write the Judge. This is outrageous.

sw

[Ladycalif]

Here is the telephone number for Assistant US Attorney Debra Kanof Phone: (915) 534-6884 - quoted in the article by Sara Carter, below.

WE THE PEOPLE CANNOT allow the two US Border Patrol Agents to be sent to prison!

PLEASE CALL DEBRA KANOF TODAY! I just called and was transferred to her voice mail - and left her message.



http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/offices/el_paso.html

Offices of the Western District of Texas
Alpine | Austin | Del Rio | El Paso | Midland | Pecos | San Antonio | Waco
El Paso Office

1 County
1,013 Square Miles
Population = 1.2 Million
Margaret Leachman, Chief
Debra Kanof, Chief Major Crimes
Jose Luis Gonzalez,
Chief of Border Interdiction

United States Attorney's Office
700 E. San Antonio,
Suite 200
El Paso, Texas 79901

Phone: (915) 534-6884
Fax: (915) 534-6024

[Robert Lomax]

According to the document, Rene Sanchez stated "that Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila's mother, Marcadia Aldrete-Davila, contacted Rene Sanchez's mother-in-law, Gregoria Toquinto, and advised her about the BP agents shooting Aldrete-Davila. Toquinto told her son-in-law, Rene Sanchez, of the incident, and he spoke to Osbaldo via a telephone call."

During the trial, the connection between Rene Sanchez and Aldrete-Davila confused the Ramos family, and "we questioned how an agent from Arizona would know or want to defend a drug smuggler from Mexico," said Monica Ramos.

O'Reily was discussing this the other night. I don't know why the "spin stops here" guy didn't pick up on this!

[John Jorsett]

"It is a violation of Border Patrol regulations to go after someone who is fleeing," she said. "The Border Patrol pursuit policy prohibits the pursuit of someone."

A: I don't believe it. I have video of BP agents chasing people in order to capture them. If there was a "no pursuit" policy, they'd never nab anybody, and we know they shove millions of people a year back over the border.

B: Even assuming there was such a policy, it would be a policy, not a law for violation of which one could prosecute.