The El Paso Times reports that two Border Patrol agents in the 2005 shooting incident of suspected drug smuggler Aldrete Davila have been given notification of termination. A third resigned before being fired.
4 Borders Pundit will have more to say about this case later. We’re in a “discovery phase” of reviewing case transcripts, DHS positions, and possible political positioning by bureaucrat “playas.”
For now, it appears that the sentences of agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean were quite harsh, although some punishment was due for procedural violations and evidence tampering.
It’s the kind of case that will inspire the Government of Mexico to continue (through its US consulates) ridiculous, overblown assertions of legal and human rights for the dregs of Mexican society — drug and alien smugglers, in the main — who commit crimes on US soil. Everyone knows what GOM’s aim is — it needs to deflect attention from its failed-state potential in some parts of Mexico.
