Posted on 07/24/2009 6:55:34 PM PDT by Ladycalif
Edited on 07/24/2009 6:57:47 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Three people in connection with the Thursday killing of a Border Patrol agent in San Diego County were arrested at O'Connor Hospital in San Jose Friday.
Agents with the Department of Homeland Security surrounded the hospital and arrested two men and one woman.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcbayarea.com ...
I guess that the late agent got a good shot in. May he rest in peace.
Prayers for Mr. Rosas and his family.
May the Lord make them strong so they can deal with this difficult situation.
Two border agents shoot a drug dealer trying to escape back into Mexico, they get jail time, the dealer gets immunity.
A border agent gets killed trying to protect our borders, the felon gets free healthcare in the US
Hmmm, what is wrong with this picture......it’s on the tip of my tongue.....hmmmmmm, can’t quite put my finger on it.
Yeah. At this point its almost gotten hard to talk about simply because Washington only looks the other way.
They were heading for the sanctuary city of Sna Francisco where they would have been given medical treatment, food and shelter ...and HERO STATUS!
Another update Ping...looks like they got the shooters from last night...
Because it's a knee-jerk reaction maybe?
Interview with Campo Minuteman Kingfish
Under
http://www.10news.com/news/20165617/detail.html
# Video: Witness Describes Shots Fired That Killed Agent
Blazing Saddles is starting right now................
on AMC
HaHa and goodbye
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Two border agents shoot a drug dealer trying to escape back into Mexico, they get jail time, the dealer gets immunity.
A border agent gets killed trying to protect our borders, the felon gets free healthcare in the US
Hmmm, what is wrong with this picture......it’s on the tip of my tongue.....hmmmmmm, can’t quite put my finger on it.”
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Everything???
The death of this American Hero, lies at the feet of all these open border politicans.. I am going to call my four here in my area Monday, and remind them... This is so sad, I pray for the agents family..
More:
Killer of Border Patrol agent may be injured
By GILLIAN FLACCUS (AP) – 3 hours ago
[snip]— At least one suspect wanted for the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent was probably injured significantly during the attack and may seek medical attention on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities said Friday.
Investigators are checking hospitals and medical facilities in hopes of finding whoever shot and killed Agent Robert Wimer Ramos, 30, late Thursday, said Keith Slotter, special agent in charge with the FBI’s San Diego bureau.
Ramos, a married father of two young children, was shot shortly after 9 p.m. while responding to a call near Campo, a town in rugged, arid terrain in southeastern San Diego County.
He was shot in the head and multiple times in his body and was dead when backup agents arrived, Slotter said.
Ramos was found outside his patrol vehicle, with blood evidence indicating at least one suspect and possibly more had serious injuries, perhaps by gunfire.
Investigators said there were searching for at least two suspects.
There was no evidence of drugs at the scene, but investigators were not ruling out anything, including an attack by drug smugglers or human smugglers.
Rosas, a three-year Border Patrol veteran, had a 2-year-old son and an 11-month-old daughter, Barlow said.
“Everybody’s digested, disgusted that a criminal can do this,” Barlow said. “The violence against the agents, the violence against this country is something that should not, and will not, be tolerated.”
Barlow said he could not confirm reports that Rosas called for backup and then went ahead before anyone arrived. But he said it isn’t unusual for agents to work alone along the 60 miles of border in the San Diego sector.
“It is a common occurrence for our agents to start tracking individuals or start pursuing individuals that make an incursion into the United State by himself prior to backup arriving,” he said.
Barlow said the area where Rosas was shot wasn’t the highest priority for agents, but there had recently been areas of increased activity.
.....Still, Barlow said, agents routinely have rocks thrown at them and are physically assaulted.
The president of the union representing 17,000 Border Patrol agents declined to discuss the details of the shooting but said his organization has long been concerned about staffing levels and situations where agents work alone in the field
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hPSwshFPzVfadMmjIwIckSRrKxswD99L3J2G1
I have The Story as a ‘Scope Truck’ spotted the Group, Minute Men Had Nothing to Do With This.
The Dispicable angle is to Inject Oneself to Garner Donations as Jim Gilcrest has Done concerning this Very Tragic Murder.
More.
Border Patrol flags are at half staff to mourn the shooting death of Agent Robert Rosas. His lifelong friend Robert Martinez remembers he felt “disbelief, shock, empty” when he heard the news. “He was like my little brother,” Martinez says.
The El Centro man’s life was tragically cut short. Thursday night at around 9:15 p.m., Rosas was tracking a group of illegal immigrants near the Campo station when they split into two groups. Soon after, Rosas was shot multiple times, even in the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Rosas was just 30 years old. He was a beloved son, brother and husband. Rosas leaves behind two young children — a one year old girl and two year old boy.
Martinez called Rosas a “dedicated” family man. The friend remembers how “he always talked about how much he loved his family, his siblings, his mother.”
Martinez was designated as the family spokesman, and says “they’re in shock and denial ... it comes in waves. They remember the good times and there’s times when it homes, they break down.”
But Rosas died doing what he loved. Becoming a Border Patrol agent was a lifelong dream for the El Centro man. Martinez says “”there was something about Border Patrol that he had a passion for ... he wanted to be a Border Patrol agent since he was young.” To advance in his career, Rosas was a Corrections Officer at Centinela State Prison and a Reservist Police Officer with the El Centro Police Department.
http://www.kyma.com/slp.php?idN=2532&cat=News
Why does your quote call him Ramos and then later call him Rosas?
“Why does your quote call him Ramos and then later call him Rosas?”
You’ll have to ask the author of the article....
“Why does your quote”....
Why is the only comment you make about this tragedy is to pick at a typo made by someone else other than me?
I can’t help wonder if he was a little slow to defend himself because of the two agents that went to prison for defending themselves...when are we going to start looking out for law abiding Americans instead of drug smugglers? One travesty is now two.
Bless him and his family.
God Bless Our Border Patrol Agents.
Every Agent I Have Had The Honor of speaking to Loves This Country and Believes in the Tough Job they are Doing.
Thank an Agent for His Service and He Will Thank YOU!
Condolences to Agent Robert Wimer Ramos’s family, friends and work associates. America’s finest.
R.I.P., sir.
I think it was a perfectly legitimate question as the error (and it was an error, not a typo) made me wonder if they were referring to two different people. My question in no way dilutes the seriousness of the situation.
A note from Mike Cutler about this:
Hi Gang:
I received several e-mails throughout Friday about the outrageous murder of a United States Border Patrol Agent.
I have attached two news reports about the information that is preliminarily available about this crime that left two little children without their father, a wife without her husband and our nation without the valiant efforts of a federal officer.
Because the investigation into this brutal murder has only just begun and facts are sketchy, I will not say much about this case except to note that it would appear that whoever killed Agent Rosas intended to murder him, considering the circumstances thus far reported on the events that preceded his death and the fact that he had been reportedly shot numerous times including at least one bullet that entered his head.
What is also disturbing is that Agent Rosas was working “solo” that is to say he had no partner, a practice that T.J. Bonner, the President of the Border Patrol Council, the union that represents our line Border Patrol agents, has indicated is not unusual and obviously engenders a serious risk to the safety of our agents.
Once again I am compelled to point out that just several weeks ago, New York Senator Chuck Schumer, the chairman of the Senate Immigration Subcommittee, stated that the border is now adequately secure to justify implementing a widespread amnesty program for millions of illegal aliens whose true identities are unknown and unknowable. There will be no way of knowing not only the names of most of these illegal aliens, but even their respective nationalities, backgrounds and possible criminal histories or the fact that they may be fugitives from justice in other countries. There will therefore be no reliable way of determining if these aliens are affiliated with criminal or terrorist organizations. There will not even be any reliable way of determining when, where or how they entered the United States.
There is a list of reasons why any such sweeping amnesty program aka “Comprehensive Immigration Reform” is a completely wrong-headed program, but even where our nation’s supposed secure border is concerned (per Schumer’s assertion) there are many issues that need to be considered.
About a week ago I wrote a commentary in response to a report that appeared in Government Executive Magazine that was entitled:
“IG: Secure Border Initiative lacks effective oversight”
Here is the link to that news report:
http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=43141&dcn=e_tma
Today’s horrible news report should provide additional evidence about the state of our borders and make it crystal clear that our borders are not secure. That extreme levels of violence in Mexico is indeed crossing our border and now it has claimed the life of a young U.S. Border Patrol agent.
Our nation’s failures to secure its borders and create an immigration system that has real integrity is not a new problem, but it is unconscionable that this deplorable situation has been permitted to persist by “leaders” of both political parties. President George W. Bush refused to secure our nation’s borders even in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 and President Bill Clinton refused to secure our nation’s borders or address the issue of the lack of integrity in the immigration bureaucracy even after the two terrorists attacks of 1993 which resulted in the death of two CIA officers and the wounding of three others in January 1993 by a Pakistani national who had succeeded in gaming the immigration system by making a fraudulent claim to political asylum and then showed his gratitude by gunning down those CIA officials.
Of course it is also to be remembered that just one month later, in February 1993 a team of Middle Eastern terrorists planted a bomb in the basement of the World Trade Center Complex that left 6 people dead, hundreds injured and a half billion dollars in damage inflicted on the World Trade Center complex. At least a couple of those attackers had acquired lawful status through immigration benefit fraud and yet just a couple of years later the Clinton Administration implemented a program known as Citizenship USA (CUSA) that naturalized more than one million aliens and the GAO subsequently conducted an investigation of this insane program that determined that tens of thousands of those aliens who naturalized were statutorily ineligible to be accorded United States citizenship.
Today our nation’s leaders are still unwilling to take the necessary steps provide our nation and our citizens with true security. I found it amazing that this evening Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano appeared on Bill Maher’s show, “Real Time.” Maher questioned her about the stringent measures implemented at ports of entry in the name of national security and she talked about how Richard Reid was the “shoe bomber” and thus we now must remove our shoes before boarding an airliner. She also noted that because other terrorists were planning to use a combination of liquids to make a bomb on airliners that now requires that passengers not be permitted to bring large quantities of liquids on board airliners.
Of course Bill Maher who knows nothing about national security failed to follow up Ms Napolitano’s statements by asking why our nation has been able to learn about how the terrorists might attack airliners but the fact that Reid and the other terrorists who were behind the liquid bomb plots were all British nationals and as such were exempt the visa requirement under the Visa Waiver Program.
For the most part all that our government has provided its citizens is the illusion of security.
Illusory security measures will not save any lives or prevent an attack.
We live in a perilous era and it is time that our nation and its citizens were afforded real protection.
Law enforcement is a dangerous profession but it is unreasonable that considering the continuing escalating levels of violence in Mexico and in the border regions of the United States, that our Border Patrol agents be subjected to the unreasonable risk of working solo in what is becoming a near “war zone.”
As I have noted on many occasions, a country without secure border can no more stand than can a house without walls!
In less than two years each and every member of the House of Representatives is up for reelection. In less than two years more than one third of the members of the United States Senate will have to face their constituents. They need to be reminded that they work for us, We the People!
The large scale apathy demonstrated by citizens of this nation has emboldened elected representatives to all but ignore the needs of the average American citizen in a quest for massive campaign funds and the promises of votes to be ostensibly delivered by special interest groups. There is much that we cannot do but there is one thing that We the People absolutely must do- we must stop sitting on the sidelines!
The collective failure of We the People to get involved in make our concerns known to our politicians have nearly made the concerns of the great majority of the citizens of this nation all but irrelevant to the politicians.
I implore you to get involved!
We live in a perilous world and in a perilous era. The survival of our nation and the lives of our citizens hang in the balance
This is neither a Conservative issue, nor is it a Liberal issue- simply stated, this is most certainly an AMERICAN issue!
You are either part of the solution or you are a part of the problem!
Democracy is not a spectator sport!
Lead, follow or get out of the way!
-michael cutler-
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