Border agents get congressional support (Feinstein asks Senate Judiciary Committee to review case)

Daily Bulletin ^ | 8/22/06 | Sara A. Carter

[Hydroshock]

Old Scratch must be ordering winter woollens. I agree with Feinstein on something. I can't believe it.

[NormsRevenge]

"The Justice Department's outrageous prosecution does nothing but tie the hands of our Border Patrol and prevent them from securing America against a flood of illegal immigrants, drugs, counterfeit goods and, quite possibly, terrorists," Jones said in his letter to the president.

"This demoralizing prosecution puts the rights of illegal smugglers ahead of our homeland security and undermines the critical mission of better enforcing immigration laws. These two agents should not be made scapegoats for our government's enforcement failures."

[goldstategop]

Its a terrible day when our government preferred the word of a drug trafficker over that of two conscientious public servants who tried to stop him. That made me angry as hell.

( No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)

[Gay State Conservative]

Sounds like they could be good candidates for preemptive Presidential pardons.

[BMIC]

Since WHEN does the U.S. Department of Justice get to grant Civil Rights to citizens of foreign nations here illegally? The drug smuggler should have no civil rights under U.S. law.

[satan]

The U.S. Attorney's Office gave Aldrete-Davila immunity and free medical care at William Beaumont Army Medical Center for his testimony against the agents.

And our veterans must wait. Help is on the way?

[goldstategop]

The message is... protect our border - at your own risk.

( No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo!)

[Froufrou]

Dang straight.

[dljordan]

"Old Scratch must be ordering winter woollens. I agree with Feinstein on something. I can't believe it."

She must be up to something. I can't believe she gives a tinker's damn about the agants.

[Hydroshock]

I suspect you are right.

[BW2221]

And now Aldrete-Davila is attempting to sue the Border Patrol for $5 million for "violating his civil rights."

[BW2221]

"Sounds like they could be good candidates for preemptive Presidential pardons."

It's the President's protege, Johnny Sutton, that was responsible for railroading the BP agents. Believe me, if Bush or Gonzales wanted to stop this, they could have done so. This is a high profile case. I am sure Bush has known about it for a long time.

What's the sense of fighting a war half way around the globe to protect the country when we're willing to surrender on the home front.

[BW2221]

The Border Patrol unions are doing what they can and this case has been a nightly staple on Lou Dobbs Show and is featured every broadcast. Dobbs calls it a "travesty of justice."

The only reason this case got this far is because the Justice Department in Texas and probably in Washington wanted it to get this far. I wonder when Bush first became aware of it; it's got to be a while ago.

[Carry_Okie]

Since WHEN does the U.S. Department of Justice get to grant Civil Rights to citizens of foreign nations here illegally? The drug smuggler should have no civil rights under U.S. law.

Since Bridges v. Wixon.

[call meVeronica]

They feel these border patrol agents are infringing on the unification of North America.

I like Bush, but was VERY upset at the news of the Waco conference moving to merge Mexico, Canada & the US.

The news of the agreement; however, explains a great deal about our Mexico border policy.

[BW2221]

The only time President Bush has deceived us about border security immigration is when his lips were moving.