News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Papers: U.S. agent helped smugglers

UNION-TRIBUNE
January 17, 2007

DOWNTOWN – A Border Patrol agent was paid $100 each time he scouted for a smuggling ring that moved illegal immigrants through the San Clemente checkpoint on Interstate 5, federal agents said in court papers unsealed yesterday.

Jose Olivas Jr., 45, an agent for 10 years, asked for a court-appointed lawyer during a brief hearing in federal court. Prosecutors said he should be denied bail because he might leave the area if freed.

His arrest on conspiracy to transport illegal immigrants is the latest in a string of corruption cases involving Border Patrol agents or border inspectors along the California-Mexico border.

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