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Subscribe to RSSA federal jury in San Diego on Friday convicted two former Border Patrol agents of human smuggling in one of the highest-profile corruption cases in the last decade.
After a five-week trial, Raul and Fidel Villarreal were found guilty of conspiracy to bring in illegal immigrants for financial gain and other counts.
Raul Villarreal was long a public face of the Border Patrol who frequently appeared on television as an agency spokesman.
Prosecutors said he started a smuggling ring that brought Mexicans and Brazilians to the U.S. illegally in Border Patrol vehicles and made his older brother and fellow agent Fidel one of his first recruits.
Both brothers had pleaded not guilty in a case that was one of the highest-profile corruption cases to sting the Border Patrol since it went on a hiring spree during the last decade.
Gregory Bull / AP
A Border Patrol agent drives his white and green vehicle, above, along the border fence as cars and people cross a road the runs alongside the international border in Tijuana, Mexico, Friday, Former Border Patrol agents Raul Villarreal and his older brother and fellow former agent, Fidel Villarreal, were found guilty of smuggling hundreds of Brazilians and Mexicans to the United States in Border Patrol vehicles.
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David Nick, Raul Villarreal's attorney, had argued the prosecution relied on witnesses who had a strong motive to lie and surveillance yielded no evidence of wrongdoing by his client.
Nick said he couldn't comment on the verdict because of a gag order. A message for Fidel Villarreal's attorney was not immediately returned.
The Villarreal brothers are due in court Nov. 16 for sentencing. They face a maximum of 50 years in prison and at least $1.25 million in penalties.
Prosecutors say the brothers abruptly quit the Border Patrol in June 2006 after being tipped they were under investigation. They were arrested in Tijuana in 2008.
The investigation began in May 2005 with an informant's tip to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Investigators installed cameras on poles where migrants were dropped off, planted undercover recording devices, put tracking instruments on Border Patrol vehicles and followed a smuggling load by airplane.
The prosecution also relied on accounts of alleged accomplices and migrants who entered the United States illegally, including some who identified Fidel in photographs. One 24-year-old Brazilian woman said she paid $12,000 to be taken across the border in "a police car."
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The woman said a police official in Tijuana drove her to the border to a U.S. "immigration police" officer in a white camper. The officer wore a green uniform, hat and sunglasses and drove about 15 minutes before ordering the migrants to wait in roadside brush for another ride to a San Diego drop house.
The Villareal family came to the United States from the central Mexican state of Jalisco in 1984, when the brothers were teenagers. Raul knew no English as a 14-year-old but quickly became fluent. He volunteered to read to children at libraries and collected food for the homeless, joining the Border Patrol in 1995 after earning a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from San Diego State University.
Raul "pursued and achieved what is known to be the American Dream," wrote Nick.
Fidel excelled as a student, got police training at community college, studied aviation at National University and joined the Border Patrol in 1998. His family says he had a habit of calling police to report graffiti in the neighborhood.
As adults, the Villarreal brothers lived with their parents and siblings at a house they bought for $140,000 in 1996 in National City, about 10 miles from the border. Letters from family and friends say they were devoted to their parents, a diabetic mother and a father with a heart condition.
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Execute the bastards. If you need someone to throw the switch or pull the trigger, call me.
If you need backup, count me in too!
I cannot believe the stupidity of this story. They were not happy with just "achieving the American dream". They had to get greedy like the bastards on wall street.
Unlike the wall street banksters though, these two will go to jail.
Their whole purpose in going into law enforcement and working for the border patrol was to set up this side business. After all, they figured who is going to suspect a border patrol agent of smuggling illegals. It was all about the money. They could get more for smuggling one person across the border than they take home in a month in their regular paycheck. They were not going to be content to work a regular job and have a regular, average American middle class life, they wanted to be rich and have all the toys. What makes this even worse is that as immigrants from Mexico themselves, they planned on getting all that money by extorting and abusing their own people. I am just glad that they got caught and will get the punishment they deserve. Now their greed has ensured that they will end up with nothing except a long prison sentence and felony record hanging around their necks when they get out of prison and try to find a job. Of course with any luck, since they are naturalized citizens not US born, the US government may be able to strip them of their citizenship for their crimes once they get out of prison and deport them back to Mexico.
I will surely help execute the bastarrds, it seems just about every person that crosses that border ends up on welfare here in Brooklyn NY--thats their american dream
Great bumper sticker, but totally non-realistic.
Our economy is driven in large part by the work done by "illegals". Even Mitt had them working in his own yard until he decidded that it was too much negative PR for his presidential run.
Eliminate illegals, and you will be looking at 2 dollar oranges, 250 dollar nights at Motel 6 etc etc.
OR, Enter the (new) GOP... eliminate unions, force wages down to below-poverty, then we can clamp down on illegals and give those jobs to Americans at $4.50/hr.
Can't have your cake and eat it to.
Most ridiculous argument I ever hear about illegal immigration most industrialized countries do just fine without slave labor but I do believe the this country could learn a thing or two from Germany concerning jobs and wages.
MSNBC.......Do you know whether these brothers were ever granted American citizenship prior to being hired as border patrol agents ?...That may be the greater news story if they were not
Were you there and know an exorbitant amount of about sentencing guidelines?
Also, it's easy to point the finger towards Latinos and other immigrants and blame them for the country's problems, but they didn't do anything wrong or immoral. They come to this country and work in the meat packing houses, clean hotel room, pick fruit and other stuff that we all think we're to important to do. I blame us, collectively, for becoming such pampered brats.
As for the 2 Border Patrols, I'd dismiss them or make them start bringing in future citizens free.
hrtatt,
You really seem to have no idea about the number of illegals working in this country for "slave labor" wages.
Do some rudimentary research and you will find that there are literally 10s/100s of millions of undocumented workers. If we ship them all out, do you really think that we would fill those jobs for the same wages? The obvious answer is a big fat NO. So, do the simple logic flow: Get rid of the millions of illegals doing jobs like picking produce, working hotels and restaurants, landscape and construction, etc etc.. replace them with US workers at regulated minimum wage. Do you think the corporations and employers will eat the difference, or pass it on to the consumer?
Build a fence and get ready for a $5 apple, OR, build a fence and plan to bust all organized labor so that people are forced to work for poverty level wages...
Simple logic my friend.
hrtattkjck-2301213
Most ridiculous argument I ever hear about illegal immigration most industrialized countries do just fine without slave labor but I do believe the this country could learn a thing or two from Germany concerning jobs and wages.
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Germany has an income tax rate of 42.5% and about another 15% in various other taxes and a high cost of living.... you gotta make 150k there to have a reasonable life for one person...
The US is dependent on low cost labor... it drives a lower cost of living and allows businesses to generate higher revenues and more tax base at a lower rate.... so I'll take the US all day any day.
Steve...
You have a distorted view of what is and is not moral..
For those clamoring for the regular folk to give up or limit their gun rights, how do they expect the "regular folk" to defend themselves from criminals wearing a badge and carrying a loaded gun?
The Federal Government wants these people in here anyhow. We have US cities actively recruiting thier residency. Why cant the agents make a buck at it too?
TJ: See this is why NYC( votes blue) is so broke and the rest of NY ( votes red) ends up having to support them. It makes me wonder constantly, why the state turns blue every election year? What is with you people anyway? Democrats don't realize how hard republicans have to work just to keep these illegal immigrants here.
SactoJD: I think you are overestimating their importance to this country. We spend millions of dollars every year for welfare recipients, a large part is because of these people. Right there is your difference. What you called slave labor jobs that americans won't do, I call afterschool jobs that teenagers would be more than happy to do. It's all about perspective.
I thought, when it comes to illegals, that we got to pick and choose which laws to follow? Money see monkey do.
Steve is delusional, most if not all illegals coming across use the I-5 corridor to smuggle drugs and hide out in eastern Oregon in small towns. Ive seen story after story of these so-called I'm just a little o Mexican working hard`ruin towns and cities with their drugs and garbage with ten kids in tow. That's the truth Steve!
SactoJD
The entire work force is less than 200 million.
Firing squad. That'll save money to. @ T.J.McBearsofbrooklyn be careful. Telling the truth on these pages will get you called a racist.
I can not believe we prosecuted these guys. I mean they are doing what the current administration wants. Bring us more illegals.
Any one who knows anything about American History should know that the illegal immigrants are not doing the jobs they are doing because they work cheaper. It is because the people who used to do those jobs will no longer do them. Example in the 1940s after the war the people who picked up our garbage were white. As the years progressed after the war near the 1950s I noticed that negros were picking up our garbage. It was not because the negro worked cheaper it was because the whites were getting better paying cleaner jobs in most instances. The negro moved in and filled the job market vacated by the whites. As time progressed farther in time the negro was able to get better paying cleaner jobs also. Now there is a vaccume again and illegal immigrants which had not really became a problem again filled a vacancy caused by more better paying jobs. It therefore was not because the illegal immigrant worked cheaper it was because the white and negro would no longer do the job they had supported their families on in the past.
As an official Cherokee descendant, I am told that some of my ancestors also wanted to shoot immigrants when they came. Seems we have the same problem today! Does anyone out there, other than me, NOT have ancestry in what is now known as the USA? WOW! Some of you out there had better be glad that "YOUR" immigrant ancestors were not put before a firing squad, or hung, or burned at the stake!
For SactoJD: "Do some rudimentary research and you will find that there are literally 10s/100s of millions of undocumented workers."
Sacto, where did you go to school? My 2012 Britannica Almanac lists our population as almost 309 million in 2010, and it would certainly exceed 310 million at this point. How can you say there are hundreds of millions of undocumented workers? Since you use the plural term, your statement would mean at least "OVER" 200 million of us are undocumented workers. Show me the source of your statistics! Have you ever heard of the old adage, "engage brain before starting mouth?" Some posters are clearly blithering blowhard buffoons!
Bull@!$%#! Go to a construction site where Americans used to work in the trades...drywall, frameing, flooring, on and on...those jobs are gone, no longer available to Americans. Dont tell me that Americans lost the will to work with their hands. BULL@!$%#!
@Kornfed, You should ask me what type of work I did after getting out of the U.S.Marine Corp. For your information I worked construction for 37 1/2 years before I retired. There are still a lot of whites and blacks who work non union residential construction in the area of the country I live in. Yes there are a lot of illegals but they are working for the same wage as the white and black man and woman in these jobs so there again you are all wet and really do not know what you are talking about.
I worked in the construction industry more recently than you, I assure you love sonnet. These people are being pushed out due to wage, plain and simple. You are all wet sir.
but they didn't do anything wrong or immoral.
REALLY? Tell that line of BS to the farmers and ranchers in AZ that have had their livestock slaughtered or how about the case that was reported yesterday? Tell the mother of the raped AND impregnated 12 year old girl who caught the eye of a DEPORTED Mexican, who found himself a new way to gain access into this country!!!! There comes a time when we have to start acting like we mean what we say! Stop voting for the creeps that you already know are for amnesty, and want to grant free health and housing to ILLEGALS!
Did you read this statement; "Surveillance yielded no evidence of wrongdoing by his client." Do you know anyone with a strong motive to lie and put these two men in prison? Judging from the posts there are a lot of you with strong motive and would definitely sentence innocent men to prison, just because they are Latino. Profiling at it finest on Newsvine.
Oh get over it!!!! They have PLENTY of evidence against these men. They ARE CRIMINALS and should NOT get any kind of pass because the are LATINO. Close the damn borders down!!! Put our armed forces on border patrol, and boot out every dang illegal in this country!!!! The excuse people use is "Americans don't want to do the dirty jobs". BS!!! When it comes down to survival people do want they have to do. My first job as a teen was motel maid and did it as a young adult as well. Would today if I had to. It's a myth that only latinos want those kind of service jobs!!! We don't take care of our own people yet we should give foreignors a free ride??? HEll NO!!
Hey KADIDDLEHOPPER, Your grandmother on your mother's side was a full blooded cherokee, right? lol. You are a wanna-be indian, using such a worn out lie, you look absolutely pathetic WHITEY!!!Seems like Obama, Holder and Janet would be clamoring to call these two heroes instead of sending them to prison! They were just doing what the current administration is in favor of right now. They do not care how many come or of their criminal records. They just want as many future undocumented democrats in the country as possible.
Before ya'll get your panties in a twist, please ask yo'selves why are these people coming here? They come here to work and earn money!!! Who gives them the jobs? Under Bush, large corporations were supposed to be held accountable if they or sub-contractors employed illegals. How many corporations have been proecsuted under these statutes? Walmart was caught about 8 times between 2002 and 2008, and where are the prosecutions?
Under Romney/Ryan, these laws will fall away, and corporates will not be prosecuted for violating laws. Just got rid of all the laws, ergo, nothing to proescute. Just ask Ryan, the leading Randist in Congress.
How dat free market ting workin' out for ya'll?
In the 1980es I worked on an American Indian Reservation that bordered Mexico. When we needed to locate an Ambulance for transport the Ambulance would often radio in that they were down at a little village that abutted the Mexican Border; they were "busy", the driver said, and could not respond right away, even though we rarely got patients from this area. This happened almost EVERY DAY, I always got a nagging feeling that something did not seem "right" about this careless use of resources that were supposed to be allocated to serving the ill and elderly of that Reservation.
Years later I saw that this Reservation was crying to the US Government for "help", because their Reservation was overrun with Illegals; many of the residents of that Reservation were frightened.
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looks like you can take the mexicans out of mexico but you can't take the mexico out of the Agents. If you do not develop a strong feeling for being American then this is what happens. You exploit America to your benefit.
Jimmyfox -- per previous comment, you don't have to be foreign born to exploit America to your benefit. The people on Wallstreet can tell you how it's done and well as the wealthy minority who see nothing wrong with paying almost no taxes while the largest tax burden falls only those who often have trouble making ends meet. Although it would seem that at times crime pays handsomely, Raul and Fidel will probably be behind bars for a good long time.
Shhitsusi-Oh, sounds like you need to get a job like the rest of us, or move to north korea--its corporate free.
No, Susi is very correct. You don't need to be foreign to exploit the US. Millions of corporations and individuals do it here on a daily basis. Career welfare moms and dads to banks.
Susi is correct! Good argument!
T.J.McBearsofBrooklyn
Ignorance is not to your benefit, it makes it harder to understand the world around you. Your comment that most of the folks who come across the desert to get work end up on welfare is totally wrong. They come here with the American dream in their hearts to do things US Citizens will not do. Watch Moyers interview Urrea for an understanding of what you are talking about.
http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-between-two-worlds-life-on-the-border/
Hatred and greed will never make things better for you.
And also to bring in their fellow homeboys for the purpose of inundating, over running, and contaminating the pristine culture of the United States. They're lucky I'm not in charge.
CALL YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES AND INSIST THEY ADDRESS THE 14TH AMENDMENT "ANCHOR BABY" CLAUSE.
And no tex2c. You are the one showing total ignorance if you think they come here to fulfill some "American Dream" fantasy as all of you liberals ignorantly want us to believe. They come here as representatives of the Mexican government to vicariously occupy certain parts of our country as reconquista for the Mexican-American War. Look it up and educate yourself.
"One of the highest-profile corruption cases in the last decade"? Are you kidding me? Goldman Sachs nearly bankrupts the United States and many of the world's citizens, and THIS is one of the highest-profile corruption cases in the last decade? Give me a break! Here's a news flash---San Diego WAS Mexico. It's like trying to keep dandelions out of your lawn! Here's a novel approach; let's do away with the Border Patrol, bust up the banks that launder drug money, repeal The Patriot Act, take 3/4 of the police off the streets and make this a FREE COUNTRY!
Amen to 2.9
They should have known our Justice Department doesn't like competition.
What's wrong with this? President Obama, is allowing them to stay for votes?
Confussed, I assume your mind's made up and you don't want to be confused with facts, but what you said is simply not true.
Just a promise for a change in policy during election year and then nothing the next 3 years if he wins again. Bush did something similar in 2004. Maybe all presidents pander to the hispanic votes as they know they've ruined it for themselves with past partylines.....what's the use of having an immigration policy if it isn't enforced and regulated?
Absolutely right Jimmyfox, you can take the Mexican out of Mexico but you can't take the Mexican out of the Mexican. The border patrol needs to hire only white and black guys. Their families have been here for hundreds of years already. They are more loyal Americans.
tom you must have learned your American history in some backwoods inbred one sh-it hole school house. Almost one quarter of the U.S. belonged to Mexico until the Mexican-American war. Do you think Montana, California, Arizona, NEW MEXICO, Texas or Nevada are "white" names? The Mexican people, not counting the white eruo-trash you are most likely from, have lived in Mexico for tens of thousands of years. I have no doubt that you think Columbus discovered the Americas. That no one lived in here before he and his merry men came. Well that may be true, if you don't count the native Americans that is. Even if you cannot accept that fact, Mexico City was founded in 1325 by the Aztecs. In 1521 it was occupied by the Spanish and became the capital of Mexico. So I am pretty sure that means Mexicans have been here longer then just a few hundred years.
Next time before you decide to post your racist comments, at least make sure you have some of your facts right. In other words...try not to be such an inbred dumbass.
DTNIC your post was far more racist
DTNIC, white trash? Define that please. Cant wait to respond!
Hatred, greed, and ignorance will never make your lives better. Where in the Bible does it say we should kick the poor while they are trying to better the lives of their families?
@DTNIC01
"Do you think Montana, California, Arizona, NEW MEXICO, Texas or Nevada are "white" names?"
What an idiotic question. The name that people decide to use for a region of land is almost entirely arbitrary. The fact that they decided to keep these "non-white names" (whatever the f*ck that means), means absolutely nothing. None of that territory has been in Mexico's hands for over 160+ years.
Don't you get it? Mexico has no legal jurisdiction over any of that land. Mexicans no longer own that land. People that decide to take up camp in any of that land must abide by US law like everyone else does.
I think you knew exactly what Tom was saying but you still decided to be a dishonest piece of sh*t and misinterpret his position. The wave of Mexicans arriving at US soil in recent times have NOT been there for hundreds of years. They're often unfamiliar with the customs/culture and don't even bother with them. SURE, Mexicans along with the vast majority of people in the Americas have ancestries that reach back (at minimum) a few generations that have been in/around the land that now makes up the US. But that doesn't mean they can just expect to "move back" to their "ancestral homeland" which they've never been to before, now populated by entirely different people with different ancestries, and with a massive language barrier and no knowledge of the customs/culture. I'm not white, I'm Mestizo and from Brazil, and I'm pretty f*cking sure that at least some of my Native American ancestors have roamed/lived around the southern part of the States, but I recognise that there's a f*cking government there now and that I've never been here before and I'm going to play by its rules if I want to have the benefits that other law-abiding citizens have. I know its not socially acceptable here to sell your tamales in front of a walmart and I know that coming here without even bothering learning English first would make my situation especially cumbersome and annoying to the people that did.
Hum... Hire Mexicans to police the U.S. side of the border... sounds like an oxymoron to me! What did they think would happen. COME ON JOSE, MARIO, PACO, JESUS, FREE RIDES IN COP CARS!
sounds like a set up
These guys betrayed the trust that had been bestowed upon them when they were commissioned as border patrol agents . They also betrayed their fellow agents. They should be held to a higher standard since they had a higher standard of trust placed upon them. The Judge should show no mercy.
And the bankers at Goldman-Sachs wont even be procecuted? Much greater betrayal in my book.
In the immortal words of Glen Frey: " the lure of easy money has a fair and strong appeal". Mexicans won't understand that!
I thought it was, "...a very strong appeal". It's true either way.
You might be right, I haven't heard it for awhile.
This is an old, old story and it is the same that one finds over and over again in the 'war against drugs'. You take an over worked fellow and pay him $40,000 a year to arrest people who will pay him that much a month to look the other way. This was happening with various forms of bootlegging when I was a kid decades ago.
The amazing part is that this does not happen 100 times more often ... but then again, perhaps it does ... and we simply do not know about it.
So true doom!
On another note. These guys may not be villians but heros. Erick Holder and the Obama Admistration must first prove their case. I think these guys were set up. Something is just not right with this story. The Obama Administration has lied about everything and I think they are lying about this and these brothers.
Bingo, you must be a border patrol. Brothers? Wierd or coincident? Obama, hes seems to be a great scape goat for all, sad part is ,he will serve another term. Whether we like it or not.
I like that, EX border patrol after the facts. WOW, glad Im a rocket scientist.
Eric holder will step in and force a pardon...
Gee Beach Bum, you show up on the scene and your first comment is already ignored! Come to think of it, I can't remember any of your comments ever not being ignored. Why is that? Three guesses...
Why?
These crimes took place before 2006. You're not the brightest when comes to trying to turn things political, huh.
I guess we all know that their loyalty wasn't to the United States. We here all the time about the corrupt police and military in Mexico and the we hire Mexicans to work the borders!
Come to think of it, Obama's loyalty is not to the U.S. either.
Let me guess Jane, his loyalty is with...Kenya? Or is it Islam? Or maybe its with communism? The Muslim Brotherhood? So many choices, so little time...
An heaven knows there are no corrupt Police Officers in America. No corrupt white politicians, no corrupt business men or military leaders. Hey, I have a bridge I'm trying to sell. You interested?
Neither Bush and Cheney were loyal to America either, it was to the almighty buck
And right now, O'bama is dancing like a cat on a hot tin roof, and depending on the hispanic vote.
ProudWestVirginian-- he doesn't need their votes. He's running against Romney and Ryan.
you are right obama is a hunk of crap.Obama hates the USA.
michelle-164,
"No corrupt white politicians,...". Make that No corrupt politicians, period. Black and Latino politicians are just as corrupt; so leave out the race crap.
You're so right. With a school on every corner, and programs that reward people for doing
nothing, how come we don't see any significant amount of Mexicans in college? I guess that
they just want to work minimum wage jobs and keep their kids uneducated.
criminals one and all!
"joining the Border Patrol in 1995 after earning a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from San Diego State University."
Just a couple days ago there was a story of an illegal in Florida wanting to practice law as a lawyer. He was also here since being brought here by his parents at a young age and has learned English graduated from High School gone on and graduated law school and even passed the Florida Bar. Now he wants' to be a lawyer. He is here illegally who knows what other laws he or his family have or are been breaking. Don't lawyers have to take oaths just as judges do, to uphold the law? If anything else shouldn't your lawyer not be wanted as a fugitive of the law?
Is anyone really surprised by this? Politicians on the take, DEA agents on the take, Police officers on the take, the 1% hiding money off shore so they don't have to pay taxes to the country that allowed them to get rich, and now Boarder Patrol. Welcome to America, land of the free and home of the greedy. Money seems to be the only thing people care about anymore and breaking laws becomes justifiable in its persuit. Society is living proof that greed is a deadly sin.
countries do not allow you to become rich and they should not be a reason that you do not become rich. some countries have a more favorable enviroment for gaining wealth but they do not 'allow' you to become anything, that is up to you.
Hey Eric Holder, you made a perfect role model for your underlings. Corruption at it's best.
The whole State Department needs an enema. They spend so much time raking over trivia that they miss the big stuff right under their noses. Their Visa issue and VWP needs an overhaul for starters. Since when do old and trifling affairs brand someone as public enemy #1. Guess it keeps people in jobs shuffling paper at someone else's expense. Still, some of the biggest criminals come and go with impunity. Why even bother checking at all?
Dirty cops need to get double time.
Yes tumble weed BUT the jails would be over flowing then
There would be plenty of room in prison, if all the harmless potheads were let out.
Hey, they were just working for Obama.
He needs all the votes he can get.
The brothers quit the Boarder Patrol in 2006. I might have a mild case of CRS but I'm pretty sure Obama wasn't the president then.
Yeah, but they were just the tip of the iceberg.
I like that Michelle. As for viewer ready, DAH! Which way did they go? So much for being ready!
Is the cost of the war on drugs and immigration worth the cost of corruption within the system. Like they say $ talks and bull $hit walks, how true. Those in high positions are most likely the culprits, sorta like double agents, playing both sides against the middle. It's been forty years now since the war on drugs was declared, where's the victory. And when 1 drug king pin is busted, 3 takes his place, same goes for crooked cops. Right now there's a cop somewhere accepting bribes, hiding behind his badge of honor, sad but true. When are all the blind folks going to wake up and give up the political poppy cock. Legalize, tax, cut out the black market and end the senseless killings of the cartels. Maybe we need to build a border fence to keep the cops in, instead of the other way around.
We should put 50,000 veteran soldiers on the borders to help patrol against drugs and illegal immigration.
So you believe all of our military are above behaving this way aswell . You do realise that there is criminal activity in the military too . They are not all heroes !
Yea, lets blame Obamma. I want to know what part of our govt is not corrupt? Money talks & BS walks. You vote for it & it will get shot down if they dont like it. Come on, reality s**ks. It is what it is. Wake up, its the same old s**t, just a different smell. Politics, they love the attention you give them only to let you know that they can do what they want, show you their power. So what, 50,000 people voted yes & i with 1 vote say no. Hello!
Eric Holder just called and said he is going to give the two BP agents a medal!!
Bozo will give them the medal of honor.
Great, another political circus. Ive yet to figure out which animal act I like best, the elephant or the jackass? Wait , is that a donkey? Im so confused, politics!
Tough call, for sure...
Aint that the truth. Nothing like hitting the nail on the head or is that bingo? Told ya, Im confused.
Wow. "Bozo will give them the medal of honor". Way to throw Sgt. Sal Guinta under the bus. Other MoH recipients, too. I thought you "real Americans" loved the military and our heroes. Sgt. Guinta has more honor in his toes clippings than you and yours. Name the MoH recipient that the President has honored that didn't deserve the recognition.
Utterly disgraceful comment The Dev[il].
The Devil, that alone says alot. Id say burn in hell, but sounds like you are well accomadated.
Society made a good faith effort, and the tax-payers gave their all ---- and this is what we get in return. Talk about a worthless investment.
Dean, be serious. Havent you noticed youre tax returns get smaller each year?
So, let me get this straight. These brothers immigrated to the U.S., attended our universities (most likely using my tax money to pay for it), graduated and then signed up (and were accepted) to patrol the border that they came through?!
Our government has to be the stupidest government on the planet.
Yea, no s**t Sherlock.