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| Border Patrol Agent Arrested in Smuggling Case |
| 2005-08-06 |
| Federal agents arrested a Border Patrol agent Thursday in Escondido who is suspected of being an illegal immigrant who was smuggling other illegal immigrants into the United States. Department of Homeland Security agents, assisted by Escondido police, pulled over 28-year-old Oscar Antonio Ortiz of San Diego at about 2:30 p.m. while he was driving on Valley Parkway near Interstate 15 and took him into custody, authorities said... a second Border Patrol agent who lives in Encinitas has also been under investigation. Ortiz's application to work for the Border Patrol, filed in Oct. 30, 2001, claimed he was born in Chicago, Ill., and he submitted a birth certificate, according to U.S. District Court documents in San Diego. "However, a records check revealed it was a doctored birth certificate," Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Jennings said. "The records check revealed that he was born in Tijuana." Ortiz was to appear in federal court today on one charge each of conspiracy to smuggle illegal immigrants into this country and falsely claiming U.S. citizenship, Jennings said. The maximum penalty for conviction could be 10 years for conspiracy and three for falsely claiming citizenship. A Border Patrol spokesman in San Diego declined to comment, citing further investigation. The case developed out of a U.S.-Mexico drug smuggling investigation tied to an Encinitas street gang. At least 33 people, 10 of them believed to be members of the gang, were charged during the multi-agency Operation Straight Flush. North County Regional Gang Task Force detectives worked with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, as well as other agents. Officials said Ortiz's home was among those searched in early June when the first arrests in the case were made. The Border Patrol agent who lives in Encinitas has three cousins in the street gang and he was also under investigation... Cell phone conversations between Ortiz and the other agent as they discussed smuggling illegal immigrants into the United States east of Tecate are noted in the court documents... |
| Posted by:Pappy |
| #6 Jackel, I'm with you on that. But the truth to the matter is that's not what's happening. In Colorado, the schools teach in Spanish, they aren't learning English. They aren't finishing school, instead getting pregnant and dropping out of school because they don't understand English (probably). I would love that folks are coming to America because they like our way of life and customs. But they are coming here because of all the free services we give them. Emergency medicaid needs to be reworked. More to be said, but it's very late. |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-08-06 23:47 |
| #5 Actually, I wouldn't mind (legal) immigration, even in very large numbers, if we didn't have a massive welfare state and we didn't have this If people want to come here to work and assimilate and speak English and be Americans, I'm fine with that. I read Mexifornia and the author talks about how foreign children used to be immersed in our classes, speaking only English and being taught American values. The teacher would have the student talk a little about his homeland and then ask "and why did your parents come here?" thus reinforcing this is a better place so don't screw it up like the place you left. Under those conditions, we could have far more legal immigrants. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-08-06 14:42 |
| #4 Put a sock on it, Vlad. That's not the kind of language we want here. -- AoS |
| Posted by: Steve White 2005-08-06 12:35 |
| #3 Take your meds today, Vlad? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2005-08-06 11:57 |
| #2 Yeah, and these foreign occupiers sell home boiled corn in the streets of LA, just as in the filthy streets of their open sewer homeland. But disobeying food preparation regulations, is the least of the lawbreaking menace of the occupying bean eaters. |
| Posted by: Vlad the Muslim Impaler 2005-08-06 04:08 |
| #1 Southwest U.S. becoming more like Mexico everyday...corruption only to get worse... |
| Posted by: borgboy 2005-08-06 03:46 |