3 Guardsmen are accused of human-smuggling (while "helping" border patrol...)

[elehhhhna]

Torres, according to a federal prosecutor, was wearing a Texas National Guard uniform and driving a van leased by the National Guard when he was stopped near Cotulla on Interstate 35 North on Thursday evening. U.S. Border Patrol agents said they found 24 illegal immigrants in the van, and a federal complaint states that Torres admitted it was his seventh load. Pacheco and Hodge were arrested Friday.

Later, agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement retrieved text messages from the Guardsmen's cell phones indicating they were negotiating with smugglers about the size of the loads and when they would be delivered, according to a federal complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Laredo.

Court documents say a text message Torres sent to Hodge shortly before Torres' arrest reads: ''tell them Ill only do 1 run @ no more than 20 people @ $150 a person and I want to leave @1930 hours and Ill go 2 San Antonio if they want."
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4881430.html

[Xipe Totec]

1. Talk about the coyote guarding the hen house

:rofl:

[havocmom]

2. Wonder how easy it would be for some terrorists from far away

to get to Mexico then come easin' across the border while we are 'fighting them over there'. Are we safer?

Somebody call Rush and the rest of the chanting liars and ask them for me. I am seriously interested.

The ease with which undocumented immigrants cross our borders, un-inspected cargo comes into our ports,
and corporations move poisoned food stuffs onto our tables tells the truth about the GOP junta. They don't give a damn about America.