WHOSE SIDE ARE THEY ON?

I want to touch on an older story that pertains to our growing"illegal alien" problem and how liberal ideology  is as much the problem as the aliens are.

You may recall the story of U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and  Jose Compean. Back in February 2006, while patrolling the border near ElPaso,Tx., Ramos shot a fleeing suspect who had bloodied his partner during a struggle. Ramos was responding to a call for backup for a suspicious van that was spotted.Behind the wheel of that van was an illegal alien, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila of Mexico. What was unknown to the agents was that Aldrete-Davila's van contained 800 pounds of marijuana. Unable to outrun the agents, Aldrete-Davila jumped out of the van and started to run towards the river and back to Mexico. Both agents yelled for him to stop, but he kept running and at some point in the chase Ramos heard gun shots and saw Compean lying on the ground. Soon after, Aldrete-Davila turned and pointed something that looked like gun at Ramos. Ramos then discharged his weapon but the alien didn't appear to be shot as he jumped into an awaiting van and continued his escape. 

The commotion and multiple calls for backup had brought seven other agents,including two supervisors, to the crossing by this time.Compean picked up his shell casings,but Ramos did not.He also did not follow agency procedure and report that he had fired his weapon.

Over two weeks after the incident,Christopher Sanchez, an investigator with the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General received a phone call from a border patrol agent in Wilcox, Az. The agent's mother-in-law had received a call from Aldrete-Davila's mother in Mexico telling her that her son had been wounded in the buttocks in the shooting.Sanchez followed up with a call of his own to the smuggler in Mexico. In a move that still confuses Ramos, Compean and myself, the U.S. government filed charges against them after giving FULL IMMUNITY to Aldrete-Davila and paying for his medical expenses at an ElPaso hospital. 

At trial,Assistant U.S. attorney Debra Kanof told the court that the agents had violated an unarmed  Aldrete-Davila's CIVIL RIGHTS under the 4th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Furthermore, the attorney argued that it was a violation of Border Patrol policy for agents to pursue fleeing suspects and that picking up of shell casings was destroying a crime scene. 

A Texas jury came back with a guilty verdict on charge of discharging a firearm in relation to a crime on violence, and Ramos and Compean received 12 and 11 year sentences respectively. 

This story, which did occur during the Bush administration, along with the recent halt of all deportations and work-site enforcement by the Obama administration, has tied the hands of our Federal agents and soured their opinion and confidence in our own government to fight this major issue we face.

President Bush did commute the sentences of Ramos and Compean prior to his leaving office.But the laws that give these alien criminals RIGHTS that they don't deserve still stand and are definitely in the minds of other agents who will  be apprehensive when confronted with a similar situation.

The USBC rule of not pursuing a fleeing suspect is absolutely ridiculous.Also, i'm not an expert in constitutional interpretation, but i couldn't find a correlation between "shooting a fleeing suspect in the back" and search and seizure which the 4th Amendment primarily protects.

The Federal agents of Border Patrol, ICE, DEA, and ATF put their lives on the line to protect our nation from aliens, drug smugglers, and terrorists. But because of the way our liberal society chooses to view things these men and women are  also fighting a battle within. Liberals today, including our own government, are more concerned about the "backlash" that they will get from far-left groups than about the lives and rights of the men trying to protect us.They fail to realize that this is playing into the hands of the enemy, making their criminal agenda that much easier. 

Wake up liberals, you're the PROBLEM.