According to them (and I'd beliewve our Border Patol agents over an illegal alien drug smuggler), they did know he was illegal and they heard what sounded like shots. He was told to stop more than once and did not do so.
I'm so tired of you open borders people supporting anythign that is put out by the reconquista lobby.
Jorge Bush was saving his 'compassionate conservatism' for the compassionate ,crimalien drug smugglers. That smuggler was probably bringing the pot for free distribution to poor people dying of cancer.
geez, where's your compassion,man?
The testimony was that they assumed he was an illegal. They didn't even know who he was until after he came forward. They just "knew" he was running back over the border.
I will point out that the man had once been a LEGAL RESIDENT of the United States, but he was no longer legal at the time of the incident.
And the issue isn't whether he was illegal, it is that they had no idea he was a drug smuggler. Unless you think it's OK to shoot unarmed illegal aliens who are trying to LEAVE the country (which is where he was heading when they shot him -- NOT breaking INTO the country).
Well, there's a message from the anti-illegal-closed-borders crowd: Please leave the country now, and if we see you leaving we'll shoot you in the back.....
BTW, I'm not an open borders person. I don't support amnesty for illegals. I want a guest worker program that prohibits participants from becoming citizens. I want illegals currently in the country to have to go through the line like everybody else, and NOT to get in the front of that line, but in the back.
However, I do diverge from the rabid anti-immigrant crowd in that I want to increase the legal numbers of immigrants, I DO support guest workers, I support ALLOWING illegal immigrants the right to GET INTO THE LINE, and in fact to use their time in the United States as a factor in judging their ability to assimilate.
And, worst of all, I support an expedited "preliminary review" so that those illegals who have settled in this country and show they are productive members of our society, if it seems clear they WILL be acceptable as legal immigrants when they make it to the front of the line, to allow them to stay in the country while they are waiting, rather than booting them out of the country. I can't figure out how to make it work though yet.
To me this has nothing to do with that issue though -- this is simply an issue of whether we, as conservatives, are going to accept the workings of our criminal justice system, and stand for the rule of law for all citizens, including police -- or if we instead are going to be like democrats, looking for our government to bestow special extra-legal measures whenever it suits our fancy.
Impeach a president because he won't pardon two lawbreakers found guilty by a jury of their peers for shooting an unarmed man in the back? Sorry, there's nothing conservative about that -- rather its a radical position.