Border agent killed in unusual violence within U.S.
2009-07-25 19:59:00 Border agent killed in unusual violence within U.S. CHULA VISTA, California (AP) ? Federal investigators scrambled Friday to find whoever shot a U.S. Border Patrol agent in the head in an unusually violent attack within the U.S. that has left a baffling trail of evidence. Agent Robert Rosas, a 30-year-old, married father of two young children, ...
By: TexasFred's
10 People Killed in SUV Rollover in Arizona
2009-06-08 03:19:00 10 People Killed in SUV Rollover in Arizona SONOITA, Ariz. ? Ten undocumented immigrants “stacked like wood” in the back of a sports utility vehicle crammed with at least 22 people were killed when the driver lost control and rolled over on a remote southern Arizona highway, authorities said Sunday. The Ford Excursion had no rear seat ...
By: TexasFred's
Border Patrol Video Followup
2009-05-15 03:09:00 Sent in by Chris — This is footage of the Border Patrol attacking that guy who refused to comply: There appears to be ZERO justification (resistance) for tasering the guy. You can hear it in the audio. Some commentary can be found here. “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes ...
Immigrant deaths along South Texas border rose 40 percent
2009-03-02 03:43:00 Immigrant deaths along South Texas border rose 40 percent McALLEN, Texas ? The number of immigrant bodies ? Mexican and those still unidentified ? dealt with by the Mexican consulate in three South Texas counties rose 40 percent in 2008 over the previous year. The Mexican Consulate in McAllen, which takes the cases for Hidalgo, Starr ...
By: TexasFred's
Heterodox Stalker commented on the blog post Border Patrol....
2009-02-24 02:53:00 Heterodox Stalker commented on the blog post Border Patrol.... While I would have to question anyone who thinks we should disbar lawyers for representing people, because that is just un-American. I will say this; Anyone who thinks the criminal who was shot by border agents was unarmed has never had someone try to run him over with a car.
Ben wrote a new blog post: Border Patrol....
2009-02-21 04:24:00 Ben wrote a new blog post: Border Patrol.... It was reported today on the AP wire that border patrol agents shot another suspected drug dealer crossing the border after he ran over one of the agents trying to stop him. He wasn't alone,there was another man in the truck with him,but the driver was shot,and is now sitting in a hospital in El ...
Bush Commutes Sentences for Two Former Border Patrol Agents
2009-01-19 19:01:00 Bush Commutes Sentences for Two Former Border Patrol Agents On his last full day in office, President Bush commuted the sentences of two former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug runner in 2005. The imprisonment of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean had sparked outcry from critics who said the two were just ...
By: TexasFred's
Bush Frees Drug Dealers?But Not Innocent Troops or Border Patrol Agents
2008-12-08 04:05:00 President George Bush issued 14 pardons and two commutations of sentence recently. “Great,” you may think. “He’s released Sgt Hutchins, and pardoned the rest of the Pendleton 8, and SSG Ray Girouard, and Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean.” Right? Wrong. The Center for Individual Freedom breaks it down: “bank embezzlers, tax evaders and a rapper, John ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Bush Frees Drug Dealers?But Not Innocent Troops or Border Patrol Agents
2008-12-08 04:05:00 President George Bush issued 14 pardons and two commutations of sentence recently. “Great,” you may think. “He’s released Sgt Hutchins, and pardoned the rest of the Pendleton 8, and SSG Ray Girouard, and Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean.” Right? Wrong. The Center for Individual Freedom breaks it down: “bank embezzlers, tax evaders and a rapper, John ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Bush Frees Drug Dealers?But Not Innocent Troops or Border Patrol Agents
2008-12-08 04:05:00 President George Bush issued 14 pardons and two commutations of sentence recently. “Great,” you may think. “He’s released Sgt Hutchins, and pardoned the rest of the Pendleton 8, and SSG Ray Girouard, and Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean.” Right? Wrong. The Center for Individual Freedom breaks it down: “bank embezzlers, tax evaders and a rapper, John ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Bush Frees Drug Dealers?But Not Innocent Troops or Border Patrol Agents
2008-12-08 04:05:00 President George Bush issued 14 pardons and two commutations of sentence recently. “Great,” you may think. “He’s released Sgt Hutchins, and pardoned the rest of the Pendleton 8, and SSG Ray Girouard, and Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean.” Right? Wrong. The Center for Individual Freedom breaks it down: “bank embezzlers, tax evaders and a rapper, John ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Jose Compean Resentenced in Federal Court in El Paso
2008-11-13 02:14:00 A US District Judge today resentenced Former Border Patrol Agent Jose Alonso Compean to 10 years for his conviction of using a weapon in the commission of a felony, plus two years for assault and other charges. Compean and former agent Ignacio Ramos were convicted in 2006 of shooting admitted drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila and ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Ex-border agent gets prison for civil rights violations
2008-11-06 04:06:00 A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a former Border Patrol agent convicted of violating the civil rights of two undocumented immigrants to one year in prison. Santiago Perez, 28, of Edinburg, Texas, admitted as part of a guilty plea in August that he assaulted a Guatemalan and a Mexican man on separate occasions. Perez admitted to ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Murder in the Desert - Judge declares second mistrial [BREAKING]
2008-11-04 22:58:00 Despite overwhelming evidence pointing to the guilt of Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbet in the murder of Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera, U.S. District Judge David C. Bury declared a mistrial at 1345 today. More on this breaking story as it becomes available. The prosecution has not indicated whether it will try a third time. In the ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Murder in the Desert - Nicholas Corbett Trial - Daily Snapshot
2008-11-04 01:09:00 DAY 9 (11/03) UPDATE - The Jury has recessed for the day. 13 hours total time in deliberations. The jury got the case at about 1430 on November 30. Deliberations began for about two hours, adjourned, resumed on Friday and adjourned once again until this morning. the jurors sent a note to Judge David Bury with two requests. They ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Murder in the Desert - Corbett case goes to the Jury
2008-11-01 08:00:00 The fate of a U.S. Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett charged with murdering Javier Dominguez Rivera is now in the hands of the jury. U.S. District Judge David C. Bury handed over the case to a 12-person jury about 2:30 p.m. Thursday, after they sat through a morning of closing arguments that demonstrated contrasting accounts of ...
By: Mexico Trucker
US official: Mexican cartels murder, kidnap in US
2008-10-19 03:30:00 US official: Mexican cartels murder, kidnap in US MEXICO CITY (AP) - U.S. drug czar John Walters said Friday that Mexico’s drug cartels are crossing the border to kidnap and kill inside the United States, and promised that an anti-drug aid package to help Mexico to fight the gangs will be ready soon. Walters, the director ...
By: TexasFred's
Border Patrol agent wounds man near Mexican border
2008-08-13 17:15:00 Border Patrol agent wounds man near Mexican border SAN YSIDRO, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say a U.S. Border Patrol agent shot and wounded a man throwing rocks at agents near the U.S.-Mexico border in the San Diego area. San Diego police Sgt. Kerry Tom says a group who had crossed to the U.S. side threw rocks at ...
By: TexasFred's
Border patrol agent held at gunpoint
2008-08-07 01:04:00 Officers fear Mexican military encounters will turn violent A U.S. Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint Sunday night by members of the Mexican military who had crossed the border into Arizona, but the soldiers returned to Mexico without incident when backup agents responded to assist. Agents assigned to the Border Patrol station at Ajo, Ariz., said ...
By: TexasFred's
US Border Patrol Agent Held At Gunpoint By Mexican Military
2008-08-07 01:01:00 Will the government do anything about this? Will the government even say anything about this? Doubt it. Vinnie over at Jawa Report as the question "Isn't this an act of war?"A U.S. Border Patrol agent was held at gunpoint Sunday night by members of the Mexican military who had crossed the border into Arizona, but the soldiers returned to Mexico without incident when backup agents responded to assist.Agents assigned to the Border Patrol station at Ajo, Ariz., said the Mexican soldiers crossed the international border in an isolated area about 100 miles southwest of Tucson and pointed rifles at the agent, who was not identified.It was unclear what the soldiers were doing in the United States, but U.S. law enforcement authorities have long said that current and former Mexican military personnel have been hired to protect drug and migrant smugglers."Unfortunately, this sort of behavior by Mexican military personnel has been going on for years," union Local 2544 of the National Border P...
Border Patrol assault suspect in Canadian custody
2008-07-08 17:52:00 DERBY LINE, Vermont (AP) ? A man suspected of assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent near the Vermont-Quebec line has been arrested in Canada, an agency spokesman said Tuesday. The suspect was taken into custody Monday night in Stanstead, Quebec, hours after a Border Patrol agent shot at four people after being assaulted in Derby Line, ...
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Border governors worried about National Guard pullout
2008-06-20 19:27:00 McALLEN, Texas (AP) ? The thousands of National Guardsmen sent to reinforce the U.S.-Mexican border two years ago have almost completely withdrawn, despite pleas from border-state governors once skeptical of using soldiers to catch illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. When the Guard was posted along the southern frontier in 2006 to help the strapped Border Patrol, ...
By: TexasFred's
Pulled by the Border Patrol!
2008-06-06 07:40:00 THURSDAY, JUNE 5Unfortunately there is only one post for today. Real life has interfered with blogging. I know, it’s weird, but there are times when life happens!I’ve had a long, windy day. My mother had a worse day. She did 3 hrs of nuclear medicine in Las Cruces. They are looking for some sort of aortal blockage. That’s the last thing she needs. While she was having her tests, I was shopping. I’m out of condition (shopping condition). I didn’t do bad, thought. On the way home we were going through the Border Patrol checkpoint on highway ...
Border Patrol Contract Workers Allegedly Released Illegals
2008-06-05 07:21:00 SAN DIEGO â?? Two Border Patrol contract workers were arrested for allegedly conspiring to shuttle illegal immigrants from San Diego to Los Angeles for $2,500 apiece instead of returning them to Mexico. Christopher Saint Lucero and Manley Lamont Smith work for Wackenhut Corp., which holds a Border Patrol contract to escort illegal immigrants to Mexico after ...
By: TexasFred's
Border Patrol Agent Seize Half Ton of Marijuana During Past Week
2008-05-21 00:00:00 U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Del Rio Sector seized nearly 1,000 pounds of marijuana, in five separate incidents, over the past week.
Government Jobs: U.S. Border Patrol Recruitment Day May 17th
2008-05-18 00:00:00 U.S. Border Patrol national recruiters are conducting an intensive recruiting event on Saturday, May 17 at the Chicago Marriott O?Hare, 8535 West Higgins Road, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The Border Patrol is searching for qualified men and women in the Edinburg area to join their ranks in U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the largest law enforcement agency in the country.
El Paso commissioners pass anti-border wall resolution
2008-05-06 14:28:00 EL PASO ? County commissioners are opposing construction of a wall along the nation’s southern border with a resolution. The El Paso County Commissioners Court voted 3-1 Monday in favor of a resolution that calls for stopping the building of the border wall and says local law enforcement officials should not enforce federal immigration laws. The resolution ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Border Patrol Agents To Use Paintball Guns To Fend Off Illegals
2008-04-26 15:43:00 I wish I was surprised but Im not. Also not surprising is some "human rights" advocates even oppose the use of paint ball guns on people invading our country illegally. TUCSON - Some surprising news came from the United States Border Patrol.The Patrol has purchased 1,000 guns that fire non-lethal paintball or pepper pellets. The goal of a target practice session was to hit the white rag at the end of a hall with paintballs. Border Patrol agents may soon use paintballs to defend themselves against smugglers along the border due to an increase in violence. Surveillance video from an incident last year in El Paso shows a Border Patrol agent retreating after people pelt him with rocks. Some could argue the same about being hit by a paintball without protective gear, where a projectile from a paintball gun leaves a small welt on the flesh.Small welt or not, human rights activists say it is a bad idea, even for a line of defense. SOURCE
Border Patrol?s virtual fence canceled for not being as good as a fence
2008-04-24 07:58:00 Filed under: Misc. GadgetsThe last we heard of DHS's "Project 28" plan to build a 28-mile stretch of virtual fencing along the US / Mexico border in Arizona, it had been postponed until at least 2011 because the towers didn't quite work. Well, it appears that on further review, the system is even more of a total failure, and it's being scrapped entirely: according to Kelly Good, deputy director of the administration's Secure Border Initiative program, Project 28 "hasn't come close" to meeting Border Patrol's goals. Tests of the virtual fence didn't lead to nearly as many arrests as designers had hoped, and the lag from sensor detection to transmission of an image to border agents was apparently a big part of the problem. Boeing, which won the $860M contract to build the system, is now being told to replace it all with upgraded towers, but there's no word on when that's happening or what it'll cost taxpayers on top of the $20M already paid out. We're expecting trillion-dol...
By: Fat Matrix
Border Patrol Drops HS Graduate Requirement - Recruiting Problems
2008-04-03 00:45:00 In hopes of attracting more applicants to join the Border Patrol so that they can be prosecuted for doing their job, the US Border Patrol has dropped the requirement of having a High School or equivalent GED to join them....
By: Diggers Realm
Border Patrol Intercepts MS-13 Member on Border, Deported Six Years Ago
2008-03-20 14:07:00 Good work, folks: The 34-year-old Salvadoran national was caught Monday afternoon near the Tecate border crossing, along with an illegal immigrant from Guatemala, said Border Patrol spokesman Mark Endicott. The Salvadoran, whose name was not released, is both an admitted and documented member of Mara Salvatrucha, also known as MS-13. He has a lengthy criminal history and was deported in February 2002 after serving time in Nassau County jail in Long Island, N.Y., Endicott said. The Guatemalan had no ties to MS-13, Endicott said. The Salvadoran told investigators he had been a member of Mara Salvatrucha since age 18, and had been fully involved with the gang in New York City. He is being held ?in permanent Homeland Security custody, pending prosecution,? Endicott said. I wrote about MS-13 before in my series on illegal immigration. This is a very serious, very violent threat to America. The more border partol agents we have on the border, the more of these guys we can keep out of th...
U.S. Border Patrol and Racism.
2008-03-02 21:48:00 Immigration and border patrol’s have now been more focused on catching illegal immigrants at bus stops and at train stations. Yesterday I witness the way they treat people who don’t seem to have the write papers to prove they are legal in the country. When I got in an Amtrak train, border patrol was checking ...
$1.2 billion fence adds little or no security
2008-02-11 04:42:00 Luis Alberto Urrea The Border Patrol agent was a 30-year veteran. He walked me across a patch of desolation to the Mexican border. There was no border fence there yet. Just Arizona desert, a dusty dry creekbed, and Mexican desert beyond, indistinguishable from the United States. If you want to hear philosophical reflections from an agent, you ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Mexico extradites corrupt former US Border Patrol Agent!
2008-02-01 00:17:00 MEXICO CITY .- The government of Mexico extradited to the United States, an agent of the United States Border Patrol, accused of collaborating with drug traffickers for the entry of Mexican drug shipments into the United States through El Paso, Texas. With the surrender of former CBP agent Arturo Arzate Jr.. aka “Tury”, this brings ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Arrest Made in Border Patrol Agent?s Killing
2008-01-24 18:10:00 Statement by Homeland Security Secretary Chertoff on the Arrest of a Suspect in the Killing of Border Patrol Agent Aguilar Mexican authorities have announced the arrest of a suspect in the murder of Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar. I have communicated with Interior Minister Juan Camilo Mourińo to thank him for Mexico?s quick action in locating and apprehending the ...
Suspect apprehended in death of Border Patrol Agent
2008-01-24 15:48:00 Mexican authorities said Wednesday they had arrested a man in northern Mexico in the weekend killing of U.S. Border Patrol agent Luis Aguilar. Jesus Navarro Montes, 22, was arrested in the northern state of Sonora on Wednesday, said a spokesman for Mexico’s federal Attorney General’s office who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with department ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Tancredo using death of Border Patrol agent to push agenda
2008-01-24 15:37:00 Tancredo should be ashamed of using the death of this agent to push forward his on short sighted agenda. At least he's out of the field for the White House. Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson also.
By: Mexico Trucker
Illegal Aliens Kill Border Patrol Agent
2008-01-21 01:16:00 When are we going to start taking this seriously: The death, the first for the Border Patrol in 2008, drew a sharp response from U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who called the incident a “heinous” act. “Dangerous criminal groups have chosen to respond to our tougher security posture at the border with increased violence,” Chertoff said in a statement. “They mistakenly believe that we will give way in the face of violence. We will continue to show them how wrong they are.” The incident was being investigated by the FBI, as well as officials from the Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the statement said. Schappell said Border Patrol agents spotted a Hummer and a second vehicle that had crossed the border from Mexico illegally and chased them west on Interstate 8. The people inside the vehicles apparently saw they were being followed and turned into the dunes toward Mexico. The agent was attempting to stop them ...
Border Patrol agent dies, struck by fleeing vehicle in SoCal
2008-01-20 05:05:00 YUMA, Ariz. ? A Border Patrol agent trying to stop a vehicle that had illegally entered the U.S. was struck and killed Saturday in southeastern California, agency officials said. The agent was killed about 20 miles west of Yuma in the Imperial Sand Dunes Recreation Area, a spot along the border that is popular with off-road ...
By: TexasFred's
In the line of duty - Border Patrol officer killed by fleeing vehicles
2008-01-20 02:52:00 YUMA, Az — A Border Patrol officer was run over and killed on Saturday as he attempted to lay a spike strip to stop a speeding Hummer in the sand dunes of Imperial County. Authorities in El Centro and Yuma, Ariz. said the agent was killed in the line of duty along the Mexican border in ...
By: Mexico Trucker
CBP Expedites Hiring Process For Border Patrol Agents
2008-01-17 21:28:00 From FEDagent.com Individuals interested in becoming Border Patrol Agents now have an opportunity to jump-start the process. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has announced that it is conducting expedited hiring events, which allow successful applicants to begin their new career within 30 days. Applicants begin the process by registering for the exam on-line. They then prepare ...
Ex Border Patrol Agent, wife, BUSTED!
2008-01-13 05:02:00 A former Border Patrol agent and his wife, who also own the restaurant Burger Patrol, were arrested Thursday on charges of conspiracy to transport illegal immigrants.An indictment unsealed in federal court Friday alleges that on three occasions in 2007, David Cruz, 32, and Susana Lopez-Portillo De Cruz, 35, conspired to transport illegal immigrants by motor ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Border Patrol Agents Fire Tear Gas Over Border at Mexican Attackers
2007-12-20 03:08:00 No doubt President Bush would have the Border Patrol agents that were protecting themselves prosecuted for this. Johnny Sutton would volunteer for that duty I am sure. ~RJH Fox News article link Border Patrol Agents Fire Tear Gas Over Border at Mexican Attackers Monday , December 17, 2007Border Patrol agents are firing tear gas and powerful pepper-spray weapons across the border into Mexico to repel what the agency says are an increasing number of attacks by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks. The counteroffensive has drawn complaints that innocent families are being caught in the crossfire."A neighbor shouted, 'Stop it! There are children living here," said Esther Arias Medina, 41, who on Wednesday fled her Tijuana, Mexico, shanty with her 3-week-old grandson after the infant began coughing from smoke that seeped through the walls.A helmeted agent on the U.S. side said nothing as he stood with a rifle on top of a 10-foot border fence next to the three-room home...
Border Patrol Agents Face Massive Increase in Assaults
2007-12-19 23:28:00 You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video SAN DIEGO ? The U.S. Border Patrol says its agents have been assaulted 250 times along the Mexican border since Oct. 1, a number that represents a 38 percent increase from the same period last year. Officials say the rising violence indicates smugglers are frustrated ...
By: TexasFred's
Border Patrol Agents See Sharp Rise in Attacks
2007-12-19 17:09:00 Here’s the latest news from our southern border. The U.S. Border Patrol says its agents have been assaulted 250 times along the Mexican border since Oct. 1, a number that represents a 38 percent increase from the same period last year. Officials say the rising violence indicates smugglers are frustrated and more desperate as it has become more difficult to cross the border illegally. Agents have been attacked with rocks, vehicles and Molotov cocktails. “Criminals are discovering they can no longer operate with impunity in certain areas and are systematically being prevented from using the border for their criminal activities,” Border Patrol Chief David Aguilar said in a news release. [source] Despite cold hard facts, there are a lot of people in this country who side with the criminals. I recently had someone tell me, and it’s a direct quote, “national borders are illusionary. people should be able to travel and work wherever they wish”. You...
Abuse on the border
2007-12-18 17:55:00 U.S. Border Patrol should stop its tear-gas assaults in Tijuana What would Americans think if Mexican officials routinely fired pepper spray and tear gas into California neighborhoods as a way to root out, say, smugglers who were operating from the U.S. side of the border? How would we, as Americans, feel if our houses were damaged, ...
By: Mexico Trucker
Border Patrol Fires Tear Gas Into Mexico
2007-12-17 23:41:00 SAN DIEGO (AP) - Border Patrol agents are firing tear gas and powerful pepper-spray weapons across the border into Mexico to repel what the agency says are an increasing number of attacks by assailants hurling rocks, bottles and bricks. The counteroffensive has drawn complaints that innocent families are being caught in the crossfire. “A neighbor shouted, ‘Stop ...
By: TexasFred's
Exclusive: Border Patrol Agent Gary Brugman Set Free!
2007-12-10 23:34:00 Have just received an e-mail from Cactus Wren of American Freedom Riders. Unjustly imprisoned Border Patrol Agent Gary Brugman has been released. Justice has prevailed. And his future is promising to be a bright one. Gary’s Story: Life After Sutton 12-10-07 Gary Brugman’s new life begins Monday, December 10, 2007 and his excitement is almost uncontrollable. On ...
[ Poll ] Appeals process started for border patrol agents in Liberals Versu
2007-12-09 00:00:00 exton, 09/12/07 (4 Replies)
Border Patrol Agents Ramos And Compean Appeal Hearing - Will They Get Out?
2007-12-04 14:07:00 Lawyers for Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean spoke for 30 minutes yesterday at a hearing regarding whether the two agents should be set free pending their appeal. The session was held before 3 District Judges of the 5th Circuit...
By: Diggers Realm
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