10/03/2011  Posted by PMC at 21:48 on 10/03/2011 Comments Off
OOIDA members use racist extremist websites to oppose Mexican trucks

After President Obama and Mexican President Calderon announced Thursday a working agreement on allowing Mexican trucks access to American highways after almost 20 years of the US violating it’s obligation under NAFTA, the airwaves and internet are alive with renewed debate as talkers and opposition groups feed on the unfounded paranoia of the American trucker. Eric (Bubba Bo)Boulanger  hosts the weekend slot on America’s Trucking Network (ATN) heard on  700WLW and XM 152 allowed the usual callers to make veiled threats of violence and destruction of the Mexican trucks and their drivers as he fielded calls on the subject of ….Read More

 
 01/09/2009  Posted by PMC at 04:10 on 01/09/2009 Comments Off
Margarita’s on the Border and Homeland Security is Out to Lunch

On July 1st, MTO reported on the arrest of Customs and Border Protection officer Margarita Crispin of El Paso and followed up on the story on April 21, 2008 when she entered a guilty plea to the charges against her. Andrew Becker placed this follow up in Mother Jones titled “Will Corruption Cross the Line?” The rumors about Margarita Crispin started soon after her first day as a customs officer in El Paso, Texas. In March 2003, Crispin started working the line at the Paso Del Norte bridge, across from Ciudad Juárez. Nearly one-fifth of all drugs seized coming across ….Read More

 
 05/07/2009  Posted by PMC at 19:02 on 05/07/2009 Comments Off
GOP & Minutemen honor a coward and felon on the 4th of July

On Friday, July 3rd, 2009, Jim Gilchrist took a break from slinging mud against his compatriots and along with staff and independent Minutemen and Friends of the Minuteman Project, Inc. attended the Murrieta-Temecula Republican Assembly Dinner meeting honoring Ex Border Patrol Agent and convicted felon Jose Compean. It is truly shameful, that in America today, liars and cowards, such as Ramos and Compean are, are hailed as heroes and Patriots. In the words of Jim Gilchrist, leader of the Minuteman Project and close associate of indicted Minuteman child killer Shawna Forde;

 
 23/06/2009  Posted by PMC at 13:09 on 23/06/2009 Comments Off
Former Blaine Border Patrol deputy chief pleads guilty to child rape

BELLINGHAM, Wash. – Joseph Giuliano, the former high-ranking Border Patrol official accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl, changed his plea to guilty of third-degree child rape Thursday in Whatcom County Superior Court. Chief Criminal Deputy Prosecutor Mac Setter said he’s recommending Giuliano serve one year in custody of the Whatcom County Jail on work release [, Back at the Border Patrol?!?] and three years of sexual deviancy treatment after that, the Bellingham Herald reported. The paper also said the plea means Giuliano will have to register as a sex offender. Giuliano was the No. 2 man in the ….Read More

 
 23/06/2009  Posted by PMC at 12:41 on 23/06/2009 Comments Off
[UPDATED] U.S. Border Patrol officer jailed following accusations of rape

A U.S. Border Patrol officer has been jailed in lieu of $1 million this weekend after he was accused of using his job to rape a woman, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department said this evening. The officer, Luis Edward Hermosillo, is assigned to the federal agency’s Indio sector. Investigators suspect there may be more victims. “The investigation is still continuing,” said Sgt. Dennis Gutierrez. “The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department believes there may be more victims.” Hermosillo, 41, remains jailed today on charges of kidnapping with intent to commit sexual assault , sexual penetration, and sexual penetration under the color of ….Read More

 
 17/02/2009  Posted by PMC at 11:58 on 17/02/2009 Comments Off

Former U.S. border patrol agents and now convicted felons Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were released from prison Tuesday, but will remain in a community confinement program until March 20, U.S. Bureau of Prison officials said. The two agents had been in prison since 2007. President George W. Bush commuted their sentences before he left office. Traci Billingsley, bureau of prisons spokeswoman, said Tuesday that the two men are out of prison and under the “supervision of the community corrections office for a period of community confinement.” Community confinement means the sentenced person has to spend the last phrase of ….Read More

 
 09/12/2008  Posted by PMC at 17:38 on 09/12/2008 Comments Off
Illinois Governor arrested on Federal corruption charges!

Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich appeared in court Tuesday afternoon to hear federal corruption charges against him. He was released on $4,500 bail. The governor, who appeared in court in a blue jogging suit, also had to forfeit his passport. FBI agents arrested Blagojevich and his chief of staff, John Harris, early Tuesday on federal corruption charges related in part to the selection of President-elect Barack Obama’s successor to the Senate, the U.S. attorney’s office said. U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald declared Tuesday a “sad day for government.” “Gov. Blagojevich has taken us to a new low,” he said. “This conduct would ….Read More

 
 09/12/2008  Posted by PMC at 06:06 on 09/12/2008 Comments Off
$7.5 million Civil Action sought against BP Agent Nicholas Corbett

UPDATE – Suit was filed Tuesday A law firm representing the parents of a Mexican man killed by Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett recently submitted a $7.5 million claim notice, which is a prelude to filing a lawsuit, against him and the government.  Meanwhile, a personal lawsuit against Corbett is expected to be filed separately today in federal court in Tucson. The federal tort claim, dated Dec. 2, is brought against Corbett for causing wrongful death, and against the Homeland Security Department, Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Justice Department for negligently employing Corbett. “Agent ….Read More

 
 04/12/2008  Posted by PMC at 15:59 on 04/12/2008 Comments Off
2 Border Patrol agents indicted for Smuggling

Two South Texas Border Patrol agents appeared in federal court Thursday on charges alleging they helped drug traffickers move their product across the U.S.-Mexico border. A grand jury in Houston returned sealed indictments Dec. 1 against Leonel Morales, 30, of the Border Patrol’s Laredo sector and Salomon Ruiz, 34, of the Rio Grande Valley sector. Both men made their initial appearances in federal courthouses in McAllen and Laredo on Thursday after the FBI arrested them Wednesday. They will remain in custody until their respective detention hearings next week, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

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