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PASADENA, Calif. – Two former Border Patrol agents were arrested in Mexico after more than two years on the run and were charged in the U.S. with taking bribes to help illegal immigrants cross the border, authorities said Monday.
A federal indictment unsealed Monday in San Diego accuses brothers Raul and Fidel Villarreal of taking bribes, smuggling illegal immigrants, tampering with witnesses and conspiring to launder money. The brothers were captured by Mexican authorities Saturday at a gated apartment complex near the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, said Mike Unzueta, special agent in charge of investigations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego. They vanished in July 2006.
"I think they were very, very surprised," Unzueta said.
ICE spokeswoman Lauren Mack said Raul, who was a Border Patrol spokesman, looked as if he had aged 10 years.
The indictment charges that Raul, 39, and Fidel, 40, picked up illegal immigrants in their Border Patrol vehicles and released them since at least the spring of 2005.
Ex-border agents on run for 2 years held in Mexico - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081021/ap_on_re_us/border_patrol_corruption - broken link)
Another example of how for some race trumps everything, including American citizenship. Treason anyone?
PASADENA, Calif. – Two former Border Patrol agents were arrested in Mexico after more than two years on the run and were charged in the U.S. with taking bribes to help illegal immigrants cross the border, authorities said Monday.
A federal indictment unsealed Monday in San Diego accuses brothers Raul and Fidel Villarreal of taking bribes, smuggling illegal immigrants, tampering with witnesses and conspiring to launder money. The brothers were captured by Mexican authorities Saturday at a gated apartment complex near the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, said Mike Unzueta, special agent in charge of investigations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego. They vanished in July 2006.
"I think they were very, very surprised," Unzueta said.
ICE spokeswoman Lauren Mack said Raul, who was a Border Patrol spokesman, looked as if he had aged 10 years.
The indictment charges that Raul, 39, and Fidel, 40, picked up illegal immigrants in their Border Patrol vehicles and released them since at least the spring of 2005.
Ex-border agents on run for 2 years held in Mexico - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081021/ap_on_re_us/border_patrol_corruption - broken link)
Another example of how for some race trumps everything, including American citizenship. Treason anyone?
Not race....greed. But everything is about race when it comes from you...
Not race....greed. But everything is about race when it comes from you...
Please do not hurl false accusations at me simply based on the assumption that you know how I think or what I feel. You don't know me and I don't want to know you. They weren't sneaking in Arabs, Polish, Germans, etc. into America were they? All of the aforementioned would be candidates wishing to be smuggled into America as well. I stand by my original statement and we will agree to disagree.
That being said, the fact that they fled to Mexico after illegally aiding and abetting illegal alien hispanics speaks volumes, don'cha think?
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PASADENA, Calif. – Two former Border Patrol agents were arrested in Mexico after more than two years on the run and were charged in the U.S. with taking bribes to help illegal immigrants cross the border, authorities said Monday.
The former agents are suspected of helping to smuggle Mexicans and Brazilians into the United States, Unzueta said. It was unclear how long or how many people were allegedly involved.
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To be or not to be (Hispanic or Latino)
Brazilian Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States
Helen Marrow
Harvard University, USA, marrow@wjh.harvard.edu I use 1990 US census data and 22 semi-structured interviews with Brazilian immigrant youth in Boston to show how Brazilians are becoming racialized into the black-white binary of American society, but how over time they manage to escape the downward mobility of Hispanic/Latino categorization by becoming ‘American’ and playing off US natives’ Spanish-centered understanding of Hispanics/Latinos (which does not include them). Successful Americanization for Brazilians means not becoming part of a stigmatized Hispanic/Latino group associated with low socioeconomic status, racial discrimination and, on the heels of massive new immigration from Latin America, disempowered immigrant status - rather than becoming ‘Hispanic/Latino’ as part and parcel of becoming ‘American’ http://etn.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/3/4/427
PASADENA, Calif. – Two former Border Patrol agents were arrested in Mexico after more than two years on the run and were charged in the U.S. with taking bribes to help illegal immigrants cross the border, authorities said Monday.
A federal indictment unsealed Monday in San Diego accuses brothers Raul and Fidel Villarreal of taking bribes, smuggling illegal immigrants, tampering with witnesses and conspiring to launder money. The brothers were captured by Mexican authorities Saturday at a gated apartment complex near the U.S. Consulate in Tijuana, said Mike Unzueta, special agent in charge of investigations at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in San Diego. They vanished in July 2006.
"I think they were very, very surprised," Unzueta said.
ICE spokeswoman Lauren Mack said Raul, who was a Border Patrol spokesman, looked as if he had aged 10 years.
The indictment charges that Raul, 39, and Fidel, 40, picked up illegal immigrants in their Border Patrol vehicles and released them since at least the spring of 2005.
Ex-border agents on run for 2 years held in Mexico - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081021/ap_on_re_us/border_patrol_corruption - broken link)
Another example of how for some race trumps everything, including American citizenship. Treason anyone?
Its not about Brown, its about Green. You didnt have to make this into anti-Latino sentiment. Theres a lot of crooked cops out there...these are just two more.
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