First Two Decorated Border Patrol Agents, Now a Texas Sheriff?! Where Does it End?

As if it weren't bad enough that decorated, veteran Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were railroaded by a kangaroo court into prison sentences of over a decade each for "violating the civil rights" of an illegal immigrant drug dealer, it actually gets worse. Now, via WorldNetDaily, comes the story of Texas Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez.

This brave law enforcement officer attempted to make a traffic stop of a van full of illegal immigrants, firing several gunshots into the tires and undercarriage of the van to disable it because it tried to run him over and kill him. So obviously, the driver should be charged with attempted murder and the others arrested and deported for illegal entry into the country, right? Wrong! Instead, the illegals were again given immunity and Hernandez was convicted in yet another sham trial because one of the bullets he fired ricocheted and struck one of the illegals in the mouth. His sentencing is March 12.

Perhaps worst of all, there is now proof (here and here) that but for the intervention and demands of Mexican authorities, at a minimum, Sheriff Hernandez would not have been prosecuted, and the same is likely true of Agents Ramos and Compean.

That's it, I have had it. Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX) is right when he says our Department of Justice should not be a bought and paid subsidiary of the Mexican government, and I also stand with Congressman Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) calling for impeachment of President Bush if something isn't done to correct these grave injustices immediately. To my mind, part of that would include bringing ethics charges and disbarment proceedings against U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, the open borders zealot of a prosecutor who put all three of these brave law enforcement officers in jail. His withholding of exculpatory evidence, making deliberate omissions, and conjuring outright falsehoods to gain tainted convictions is no worse than the race-baiting Durham County, NC, District Attorney Mike Nifong (of the Duke lacrosse rape case infamy). These three men should have been given medals, not prison sentences, period, end of discussion.

"Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas – among a number of congressman who have fiercely opposed the prosecution of Ramos and Compean – told WND he has "long suspected that Mexican government officials ordered the prosecution of our law enforcement agents."

"Mexico wants to intimidate our law enforcement into leaving our border unprotected, and we now have confirmation of it in writing," Culberson said. ...

WND also has learned that on April 29, 2005, Sheriff Lettsinger in Edwards County advised that the Texas Rangers met with the district attorney in Del Rio and was told the state of Texas had been removed from the Hernandez case because the FBI and the federal government were taking over.

The Mexican national Rodriguez was in a Chevrolet Suburban van full of illegals that attempted to run over Hernandez after he had stopped the vehicle for running a stop sign April 14, 2005, in Rocksprings, Texas. Firing his weapon at the rear tires, a bullet fragment hit Rodriguez in the mouth, cutting her lip and breaking two teeth.

Hernandez, convicted of felony civil rights violations, is incarcerated in a Del Rio prison waiting sentencing."