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, February 28, 2007

Lawmaker: Man shot by ex- agents had other drug charges

By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 02/28/2007 12:00:00 AM MST

The drug smuggler who was shot in the buttocks by two El Paso Border Patrol agents who went to prison for it was involved in another drug smuggling attempt, U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., said.

Rohrabacher said he would talk today in a news conference in Washington, D.C., about new evidence he said proves that Osvaldo Aldrete Davila was again involved in drug smuggling after the Feb. 17, 2005, shooting.

U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton had repeatedly denied knowledge of a second arrest but Rohrabacher said Sutton's statements were misleading because Aldrete Davila was not arrested either time.

"Johnny Sutton's play on words to imply the second offense didn't occur or was not relevant to the case is dishonest. Only an unscrupulous lawyer would believe this is an acceptable tactic," Rohrabacher said in a written statement.

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