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butterbean · Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2269

Jerry Seper of The Washington Times reported another extremely disturbing situation regarding our flawed immigration system and atrocious border security. Border Patrol agent David Sipe, Seper wrote, was prosecuted in 2001 for using “excessive force” while arresting Mexican national Jose Guevara, who was among 15 illegal aliens in the process of crossing the border, in 2000. An altercation broke out, and Sipe ultimately struck Guevara on the head with a flashlight, opening a wound, for which Guevara required five stitches to close. Sipe said he was defending himself.

I want to make it perfectly clear that I am unfamiliar with the case that is reported upon in the newspaper article I have attached below. I do not know the agent or the alien who was arrested in this case. What I do know is that the news report tells an extremely worrisome story. It reports on unorthodox conduct by prosecutors who were determined to convict a Border Patrol agent who was acting in performance of his sworn duties.

I think it is extremely important that I tell you that the generally approved jargon used by law enforcement officers across the United States, that, "The minimum force necessary to effect the arrest was used," is more than a phrase. Professional law enforcement officers understand that their job is to bring law violators into an appropriate court of law to see to it that justice is served. Cops and agents are not supposed to administer beatings or use undo force when arresting a suspect.

Here we have a case in which prosecutors were obviously very eager to prosecute a Border Patrol agent. And convict him they did, after a five-day trial in McAllen, Texas, before U.S. District Judge Ricardo Hinojosa. Sipe was subsequently fired. But all was not fair in McAllen.

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http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/homeland.php?id=748827