December 3, 2005 — A Honduran man claims in a federal lawsuit that U.S. Border Patrol agents beat him up to the point that he was hospitalized for two weeks in 2003. Court records show that Santos Roque Ramirez Carias, an undocumented immigrant, swam across the Rio Grande near El Calaboz, upriver from Brownsville, on Dec. 23, 2003. Ramirez, 41, fled from Border Patrol agents after being spotted in a field, according to a federal lawsuit filed Monday. Ramirez claims that he surrendered with his arms raised but was tackled by agents John South and Ruben Torres. The two agents...
