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I have been following these threads on and off for a while. The whole situation smells. A bad shooting and cover up by the agents, amnesty given to a drug smuggler, and an out of all proportion sentence. This is a lose lose situation for everyone except for the drug dealers, illegals and terrorists.

The battle can't be won on the borders, it has to be won in the nations heartland. The solution is simple, prosecute people who employ illegals and prosecute people who are here illegally (certainly don't offer welfare, health care and an education) and decriminalize drugs.

I am certain that none of that is going to happen though. Too many powerful people want cheap slave labor and too many people benefit from the WOD. The flood of illegals and drugs will continue. There is nothing we can do about it. We are past the tipping point, the populace has learned that it can demand anything, the law be damned.

Have you read the response by the prosecuter, who denies that the "immunity" given to the drug smuggler cost them a chance to prosecute? If you did, do you disagree with that judgment, and if so, what evidence to you have that this smuggler could have been prosecuted?

Remember, the guy escaped into mexico. The agents failed to apprehend him, they didn't ID him, they didn't know who he was, they couldn't pick him out of a lineup, and they had no physical evidence linking him to the van.

The only reason we know he was a drug smuggler was that he TESTIFIED to that as part of the trial. And of course he would not have done so without immunity, but without that testimony, we never could have convicted him, much less got him extradicted.

"The whole situation smells. A bad shooting and cover up by the agents, amnesty given to a drug smuggler, and an out of all proportion sentence. This is a lose lose situation for everyone except for the drug dealers, illegals and terrorists."

I echo that sentiment. Crummy situation all around.