San Diego: immigrant smugglers rarely prosecuted

From this:

...The report focused on a Border Patrol station responsible for 13 miles of mountainous border east of San Diego. It said that only 6 percent of 289 suspected immigrant smugglers caught there were federally prosecuted for that offense in the fiscal year ending in September 2004.

Some were charged with different counts, but others were released by the Border Patrol or saw their cases rejected by federal prosecutors.

Federal officials say the report, provided to the AP by the office of Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., reflects a reality along the entire 2,000-mile border: Judges and federal attorneys are so swamped that only the most egregious smuggling cases are prosecuted.

"Why are agents putting their lives at risk when the people perpetrating this illegal act just walk away from the whole ordeal scot-free?" the report states. "It is very difficult to keep agents' morale up when the laws they were told to uphold are being watered-down or not prosecuted."

Immigration · Fri, 05/19/2006 - 10:07 · · Importance: 1

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Or even if they are, the smuggle-ees, aka criminal co-conspirators (most pay to be smuggled into the US), are often given green cards in exchange for testifying.

Posted by: eh at May 22, 2006 9:51 AM

its helpless bush and fox are going to have a meeting soon to talk about the selling of the former USA To mexico!with the globalization guys watching all moves of the american people the mexicans want to buy only the young woman! to be brutally honest most of the woman asked, said yes to the deal! 3 million new mexicans said the cost is to high!

bush stated to fox that most americans are to useless to be sold and or set in their ways to be good slaves but bush will sell 5 yr, olds so in a meeting at the raped town of waco with bush and fox and the other guy called martin all said that the poor drug dealers in mexico needed to make money for drug dealing reasons bush said he feels for mexico and its hear working people but martin informed bush that he would never sell little boys to the drug smugglers at that point bush shot martin calling him a racists! fox moved in with 4 million little mexicans and asked the people of usa to get out of the lost lands of mexico or he would send in 50 million mexicans at once! and would call all non hispanics racists and collapse the economy system. it is frightening clear now that bush will sell us all into the hands of the drug dealers, oh wait he did that many years ago! so forget it i was wrong once more. i say stop the selling of little kids to bush and his friends who like little boys!

Posted by: Fred Dawes at May 22, 2006 7:40 AM

Hey, we got one.

http://ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1149618.php

Posted by: Pat at May 20, 2006 11:53 AM

No boofugg the MM Will report you to mexico city and the army of mexico will have to put you down, like the last americans that have been murdered by mexican drug dealers, just wait many understand what to do soon.

Posted by: Fred Dawes at May 19, 2006 3:24 PM

Looks like everything is all discombobulated down there at the Tiajuana gate. Do I have to go down there and show those fucksticks what to do!

Posted by: boofugg at May 19, 2006 12:34 PM

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