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Home Front: Culture Wars
Cop Killing Sparks Immigration Debate
2006-09-26
The shooting of a Houston police officer has sparked a new battle over immigration.

Juan Leonardo Quintero, an illegal immigrant, has been charged with killing a Houston police officer last week after a routine traffic stop. Police Chief Harold Hurtt blamed the federal government for failing to secure U.S. borders.

Quintero allegedly shot Officer Rodney Johnson four times in the head while in handcuffs in the back seat of his patrol car.
Johnson arrested Quintero during a routine traffic stop for speeding but apparently missed the suspect's gun in a pat-down search.

Following the shooting, a video showed Houston police officers pulling open the back doors of Johnson's patrol car and yanking the suspect out of the back seat.
hope they beat the f&*k outta him.
"It's very easy to make a mistake. I am not saying a mistake was made," one Houston police officer said. "Unfortunately, we are in the business where a mistake can kill you."

The suspect should not have been in the United States.

Quintero was deported in 2004 after a conviction for indecency with a child.

"The subject was deported, and yet he came back, so if the government fulfilled their responsibility of protecting the border we would probably not be standing here today," Hurtt said.

The Houston Police Department has been struggling this year to deal with the influx of Katrina evacuees and an immigration problem that is only getting worse.

Border Patrol said thousands of illegal immigrants crossed into the United States each month. Johnson received a commendation for valor for pulling several children from a burning building.

He leaves behind a wife who is also a police officer and their five children.
How about that, Senor Calderon? STFU! Build the fence. NOW!
Posted by:Frank G

#6  My mother-in-law in Tennessee just recently had a friend murdered by an illegal during a break-in. I still see red when I read these types of stories.
Posted by: xbalanke   2006-09-26 17:16  

#5  How did they miss the gun in the pat down. What a shame.
Posted by: Penguin   2006-09-26 17:10  

#4  The latest plague of illegal immigrants have been conditioned to look at America as a multi-national country. Their only loyalty is to their own kind. The fact that an American cop enforced American (or state) law would have been offensive to the invader.
Posted by: Snease Shaiting3550   2006-09-26 16:46  

#3  This is the second instance just today I've heard of this happening:

Listening to talk radio out of Cincinnati (WLW 700) they had on the air the father of a young man recently (?) murdered outside a greater Cincinnati area tavern by an illegal hispanic who had been previously deported after serving time for a felony committed here in the USA.

The father has started an organization to bring political pressure on congress to secure the borders.

Strangely sad to think that one would even need to have to organize to bring political pressure on the congress to secure our border.
Posted by: Mark Z   2006-09-26 16:01  

#2  He leaves behind a wife who is also a police officer and their five children.

Thank you for your support and protention of the American people you worthless bastard congress people and senators. I hope you are proud of your continued betrayal, in-fighting, inaction, 90 day per year "show-up jobs" with full pay and allowances. YOU SHOULD ALL BE FIRED IMMEDIATELY!
Posted by: Besoeker   2006-09-26 13:41  

#1  We can do ourselves, and (if Mexicans were honest enough to admit it; no doubt some of them are) Mexico a favor by executing this person.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman   2006-09-26 13:15  

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