Injustice - Border Patrol and Drug Smuggler

BREAK US LAWS WITH IMPUNITY; RUN BACK ACROSS THE BORDER TO ESCAPE. THE US HOMELAND SECURITY TRACKS YOU DOWN IN MEXICO - TO PROSECUTE YOU? OH NO! THEY PROMISE YOU IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION IF YOU'LL COME BACK AND TESTIFY AGAINST THE BORDER PATROL AGENTS WHO SHOT YOU IN THE BUTT AS YOU FLED LIKE THE ROTTEN COWARDLY RAT YOU ARE. NOW YOU ARE FREE TO SUE THE US FOR $5 MILLION FOR "VIOLATING YOUR CIVIL RIGHTS" AND HAVE THE AMERICAN TAXPAYERS REWARD YOU FOR YOUR CRIMES. HAS THIS COUNTRY GONE TOTALLY INSANE?

QUESTION: WHY IS THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY INVOLVED IN A STATE BORDER PATROL INCIDENT? PANDERING TO WOMEN'S COMPLAINTS ABOUT A RELATIVE? WHY? THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO PROTECT OUR BORDERS, NOT KISS UP TO KINFOLKS ACROSS THE BORDER. NOR TO CRUCIFY THE AGENTS WHO TRY TO DO THEIR JOB. NOR PUT PRESSURE ON WIMPY DAS AND JUDGES.

Breaking the silence
Convicted border agent tells his story
By Sara A. Carter, Staff Writer
Story continues below list of links.

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EL PASO, Texas - Border Patrol Agent Ignacio Ramos could hear his heart racing. He could feel the dry, hot dust burning against his skin as he chased a drug trafficker trying to flee back into Mexico.
Ramos' fellow agent, Jose Alonso Compean, was lying on the ground behind him, banged up and bloody from a scuffle with the much-bigger smuggler moments earlier.
Suddenly the smuggler turned toward the pursuing Ramos, gun in hand. Ramos, his own weapon already drawn, shot at him, though the man was able to flee into the brush and escape the agents.
Now, nearly 18 months after that violent encounter, Ramos and Compean are facing 20 years in federal prison for their actions.
Why?

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