Posted on 03/28/2007 4:59:11 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
The Border: Just like imprisoned Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, jailed Texas Sheriff's Deputy Gilmer Hernandez is being sued by the illegal aliens he tried to catch.
There seems to be a pattern developing on our border. Illegal aliens, sometimes smuggling drugs, sometimes just smuggling each other, are caught sneaking into the U.S.
They resist, flee and, with the help of a cooperative U.S. attorney, file criminal charges against the law enforcement officers who caught them. Top it all off, they file a lawsuit for civil rights violations.
Last week, Hernandez was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison for violating the civil rights of Maricela Rodriguez Garcia.
Garcia was riding in a van full of illegal aliens that ran a stop sign in Rocksprings, Texas, on April 14, 2005, and was stopped at 11:50 p.m. by Deputy Hernandez.
Edwards County Sheriff Don Letsinger said an investigation found that Hernandez approached the vehicle and found only the driver was sitting upright and suspected the others were illegal aliens.
When Hernandez asked the driver to step out of the vehicle, it sped off, nearly running over Hernandez in the process.
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It's now a race between Mexico and the Islamics who will rule the US. Either way, I'm betting one will succeed before 2010.
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