"IMO, one can support the border security and illegal immigration issue and still see that what these two border agents did was wrong, they knew it, tried to cover it up, and they deserved to be punished for it."
That pretty much defines the proper conservative position.
I appreciate that and may I add that it should define the proper American position. :)
On what planet??
A "proper conservative" knows that granting invading foreign drug-smugglers immunity for their crimes against America in order to prosecute border patrol agents who shot him in the butt, thereby permitting said foreign drug-smuggler to sue the taxpayers for $5 million for violating HIS "civil rights," is suicidal liberalism.