The word is out that the southern border is
undefended. Border agents won't dare to draw their weapons. Drug cartels and smugglers
double their illegal activities. Federal Government more concerned about people illegally
invading American than the men who protect us
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., called President Bush a "disgrace" for refusing
to pardon Border Patrol Agents Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos. "This is the
worst betrayal of American defenders I have ever seen,""It's shameful that he
obviously thinks more about his agreements with Mexico than the lives of American people
and backing up his defenders."
In a small border town of Rocksprings, Texas, where drug smugglers and human smugglers
sneak across the Rio Grande into America, lone Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez was on
patrol. In the stillness of the dark night, a speeding Suburban runs a red light. Deputy
Hernandez, 25, stops the vehicle, but suddenly, without warning, the vehicle takes off.
“Deputy Hernandez says the vehicle tried to run him down. The lawman fires several
shots, one of which shoots out the rear tire. The vehicle stops, and eight or nine
illegals jump out and take off running into the sagebrush”.
The U.S. government then rounds up the illegals and prosecutes Deputy Hernandez, claiming
he recklessly discharged his firearm and uses the illegals as witnesses against the lawman
during a trial.
The case is starkly like the case involving two former U.S. Border Patrol Agents, Jose
Compean and Ignacio Ramos, who were convicted of shooting at a fleeing drug smuggler who
escaped back into Mexico. They currently are serving prison terms of 11 and 12 years.
Two Border Patrol agents who testified against two co-workers convicted of shooting a drug
smuggler will be fired for changing their stories about events surrounding the shooting,
according to documents obtained.
Sources inside the Border Patrol also say Oscar Juarez, a third agent who testified
against Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, resigned from the
agency shortly before he was to be fired.
All three agents gave sworn testimony against Ramos and Compean for the U.S.
Attorney’s Office, which successfully prosecuted the shooting case. The three agents
were given immunity in exchange for their testimony despite changing their accounts of the
incident several times.
The Department of Homeland Security sent an investigator to Mexico to offer the smuggler,
Aldrete-Davila, full immunity in exchange for his testimony against the agents. Now,
Aldrete-Davila is suing the U.S. Border Patrol for $5 million for allegedly violating his
civil rights. An internal Department of Homeland Security memoranda shows that within one
month of the shooting incident, government investigators had identified the smuggler as
Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila.
Another case involves David Sipe, another former Border Patrol agent. He was in physical
combat and fearing for his life when he subdued a smuggler by hitting him with his
flashlight, according to reports of the case. The subsequent stitches in the smuggler's
head resulted in criminal charges against the law enforcement officer, and an $80,000
government settlement for the criminal. The 2001 guilty verdict in that civil rights case
now has been overturned. The new result came after it was discovered that prosecutors had
withheld information from the defense about prior convictions for some of the witnesses. http://www.freeborderagents.com |
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