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Immigrant Says Border Patrolman Held Him Down As Train Severed His Foot
Court House News Service ^ | Dec. 9, 2008 | KARINA BROWN

Posted on 12/09/2008 12:42:13 PM PST by AuntB

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To: DCPatriot

“Trouble with that is it taints ALL social conservatives in the public eye...thanks to a biased MSM.”

And YOU.


21 posted on 12/09/2008 1:00:51 PM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925)
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To: AuntB

Sounds like complete and total BS to me.


22 posted on 12/09/2008 1:00:54 PM PST by ozzymandus
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Is the alien’s name Skippy? (sorry-couldn’t resist!)


23 posted on 12/09/2008 1:01:04 PM PST by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (Well, at least we'll probably get another holiday out of the deal.)
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To: AuntB
Anybody who thinks these illegals don't either read or hear about the US putting BPs on trial, in jail and getting sued.....
24 posted on 12/09/2008 1:05:26 PM PST by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: Citizen Blade

Not necessarily, even “if” this happened as the illegal claims there would have to be proof of willful negligence and malicious intent for the agent to be deserving of jail. This is a civil suit and there are no criminal charges involved. It may well have been a matter of not expecting the train to begin moving or, in the heat of the moment, not realizing one’s situation relative to the track.


25 posted on 12/09/2008 1:05:45 PM PST by WildcatClan (AND THOSE DOESNT BRAIN JUST GO. ---- Cecile Noe)
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To: AuntB

Well at least he wasn’t made to wear panties on his head.


26 posted on 12/09/2008 1:07:05 PM PST by CholeraJoe ("This is a good day to kill some savages." Suetonius 60AD)
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To: MAexile

Let me give you a hand


27 posted on 12/09/2008 1:10:28 PM PST by Tspud1
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To: DCPatriot; highpockets; All
“Trouble with that is it taints ALL social conservatives in the public eye...thanks to a biased MSM.”

You're right about that. It was uncalled for.

Unfortunately, the illegals have found out how to play our legal system for fun and profit. No wonder the BPs get paid so well, they have to put up with a lot of grief.

28 posted on 12/09/2008 1:14:57 PM PST by wolfcreek (I see miles and miles of Texas....let's keep it that way.)
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To: AuntB

This sounds more like the kid in Marine boot camp around 1969 who wrote to his mother who then wrote to her congressman (follow the chain of stupidity) telling mom that the DIs were being really mean to him and that one DI had put him in a Dempsy Dumpster and shot a flame thrower at him. Ending this chain of stupidity and lies was the congressman who initiated an official congressional inquiry.


29 posted on 12/09/2008 1:16:10 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Tspud1

Sounds like he was Hopping a train. He’ll probably sue the rail road.


30 posted on 12/09/2008 1:16:22 PM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Constitution Day
I just don’t think this story has legs.

Bahahaha!!! (-:

31 posted on 12/09/2008 1:18:53 PM PST by MahatmaGandu (Remember, remember the 26th of November.)
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To: highpockets
Should have held his head to the track.

Come on, don't be an idiot.

Think about it. If I had had the misfortune to be born in Mexico, I like to think that I would have the fortitude to cross the border into the US. And that I would have the courage to do so in any way I could, legal, illegal if that didn't work, but I would get here.

I suspect that if you stop for a moment you would like to think that you would do the same, rather than live with your wife and children in the squalor and no hope of Mexico.

It's what self-motivated people do.

We're on THIS side of that border, and it's our job to keep them out. But we shouldn't forget that most of them are humans too.

32 posted on 12/09/2008 1:20:36 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (Overproduction;, one of the five top worries of the American farmer.)
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To: Citizen Blade
"If this happened as the illegal claims, then the border guard should be thrown in jail."

If this happened as the illegal claims, I don't understand how the border agent escaped injury. How do you get close enough to the tracks in order to hold somebody's leg down on it while a train rolls over it, and not put yourself in grave danger?!?!

33 posted on 12/09/2008 1:21:57 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: AuntB

I live in San Diego and keep on top of the border and illegals issue and have not heard or read of this.
It is a pile of crap, a non story.


34 posted on 12/09/2008 1:23:55 PM PST by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin - Jindal 2012)
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To: Balding_Eagle

Are you kidding?


35 posted on 12/09/2008 1:24:24 PM PST by Cedric
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To: SoCalPol

I hope you’re right, but it was sent out by a border agent group.


36 posted on 12/09/2008 1:26:57 PM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925)
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To: Balding_Eagle
"It's what self-motivated people do."

Oh please. Self motivated people in Mexico and Latin America get an education and they do just fine after that.

But coming to America and cleaning tables is so much easier and in the end gives them a life time of benefits that the entire world envies.

I can show you places here in the US that used to be quite lovely before the Mexicans who can't break out of that "squalor" mentality left the areas and homes TRASHED!

sw

37 posted on 12/09/2008 1:37:57 PM PST by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: MahatmaGandu

Thanks and welcome to FR. :)


38 posted on 12/09/2008 1:38:08 PM PST by Constitution Day (Big Brotha Is Watching You)
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To: AuntB

If you Google the illegal’s name + San Ysidro or San Diego Union Tribune, you get Bupkes.
If you Google the name of the atty. you see he would be the type to handle this kind of case but see nothing that he is.


39 posted on 12/09/2008 1:39:36 PM PST by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin - Jindal 2012)
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ping


40 posted on 12/09/2008 1:43:27 PM PST by gubamyster
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