And they have good cause to be
Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were indicted two months after shooting a drug-smuggling suspect as he fled back into Mexico, but it took the Justice Department more than two years to bring charges against the suspect, and the head of the National Border Patrol Council wants to know why.
“The most logical explanation is that the prompt arrest of the drug smuggler would have destroyed U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton’s chances of successfully prosecuting the two Border Patrol agents,” said T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, which represents all 12,000 of the agency’s nonsupervisory agents.
“No jury would have believed the perjured testimony of a professional drug smuggler,” said Mr. Bonner, a 27-year Border Patrol veteran.
Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, 27, an admitted Mexican drug smuggler, was arrested Nov. 15 by U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents at the Ysleta Port of Entry in El Paso, Texas, on a federal grand jury indictment charging him with conspiracy and possession with the intent to distribute marijuana.
Aldrete-Davila was given free reign to cross the US-Mexico border, as well as access to quality American health care, by Johnny Sutton, who decided prosecuting two Border Patrol Agents was more important that indicting and jailing a known drug smuggler.
In other illegal immigrant news
A 9-year-old boy looking for help after his mother crashed her van off a cliff in southern Arizona on Thanksgiving Day was rescued by an illegal immigrant who stayed with him overnight until help arrived Friday. The mother died while waiting for help.
(Sheriff Tony) Estrada said Cordova likely saved the boy and his actions should remind people not to quickly characterize all illegal immigrants as criminals.
Kudo’s to Jesus Manuel Cordova, 26, of Magdalena de Kino in the northern Mexican state of Sonora. The point here regarding illegal immigration is being missed. It is not that they are all criminals, though crossing the border illegally is, in itself, criminal, but that they come to our country and take up our resources, refuse to learn the language, do not integrate, and, in some cases, cause serious problems, such as rape, murder, and other mayhem. People, like myself, who are all for stopping the illegal immigration, both by closing down the border and making sure that people are not overstaying their visas, do not necessarily think all illegals are bad people (though, those marches where they are waving the Mexican flag and calling us racists do not help.) Just that they should not be here illegally.
