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Title: RACISTS @ DOWTOWN LA (MM/SOS)
START DATE: 1/13/2007
START TIME: 10:30 AM
Duration: 3 Hours
Location: downtown, central, hollywood, northeast
Location Details:
Downtown Federal Building
300 N. Los Angeles Avenue
LA,CA
Event Topic: immigration
Event Type: demonstration
Contact Name:
Contact Email: Sisepuedeamnistia@yahoo.com
Contact Phone:
DESCRIPTION:
RACISTS IN DOWNTOWN LA

COUNTER PROTEST THE MINUTEMEN/SOS

THE MM/SOS WILL BE @ THE DOWNTOWN FEDERAL BUILDING

SATURDAY, January 13th, 2007, 10:30 AM to 1PM

300 N. LOS ANGELES STREET

The Freedom Riders have called a national Demonstration for this Saturday, I'm sure some of you are aware.They're doing it to defend the Border Patrol Agents Ramos & Compean who have been sentenced to 11 and 12 years repectively for shooting an undocumented immigrant & disrupting a crime scene. While right wingers are painting this as a simple border chase between two Border Patrol Agents and a drug smuggler in which the drug smuggler attacked one agent and was shot while running away in order to show all immigrants as drug smugglers who kill Border Patrol agents, there are a lot of things that don't make sense when an unarmed man shot in the back while running away and how the agents worked to cover up the scene. In essence it helps bring to light the huge corruption in the Border Patrol which shows the actual ineffectiveness of an unfair, unjust, and racist immigration policy.

Along with 12 Republican Senators/Reps who have urged President Bush, the MM/SOS are trying to bring this campaing at the forefront of their anti immigrant backlash. The fact that both Border Patrol Agents are Latino even helps to hide the MM/SOS's racism. They will use them and this case to further their racist ideas and that cannot be allowed to happen.

AP Article

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/10/28/news/state/14_02_4810_27_06.txt

Border official won't criticize agents' prosecution

By: SUZANNE GAMBOA - Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The head of Customs and Border Protection refused to criticize the prosecution of two Border Patrol agents sentenced to federal prison for wounding a Mexican man who later admitted he's a drug smuggler.

Commissioner Ralph Basham said in an interview to be aired Sunday on C-SPAN that the agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, were convicted by a jury and "I'm not going to criticize that."

Basham, a 35-year veteran of the Secret Service, said integrity is the most important ingredient for law enforcement.



"If the American public doesn't have confidence in America's law enforcement agencies, then we've failed," said Basham, whose agency is part of the Homeland Security Department.

Ramos was sentenced to 11 years and one day, while Compean was ordered to serve 12 years in prison for shooting Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, a Mexican citizen, in the buttocks as he fled across the Rio Grande.

Aldrete later admitted to investigators that he was smuggling drugs. But the prosecutor in the case said there was no evidence to link him to a vanload of marijuana. The prosecutor also said agents didn't report the shooting and tampered with evidence by picking up several spent shell casings.

Several members of Congress have called for a congressional investigation of the prosecutions and support for the agents has swelled largely through conservative talk shows.

White House press secretary Tony Snow was asked Friday whether the president will answer a letter written by 12 Republicans asking for an investigation of the sentencing.

"Let's wait and see what the hearing produces," Snow said in the White House news briefing. "I believe you have 12 people who want to have a hearing, and we'll be interested in seeing what those hearings provide."

The convictions are part of a vexing dilemma confronting the nation's immigration work force. The Associated Press reported last month that more than 600 criminal probes of immigration employees nationwide have been launched this fiscal year, which began Oct. 1. Other agencies also are dealing with similar problems of officers taking lucrative bribes to allow illegal immigrants or drugs to enter the country or to approve citizenship or other immigration benefits for ineligible people.

Customs and Border Protection is forming corps of investigators to police its work force

Meanwhile, Basham said he is emphasizing integrity among his workers.

"These agents and officers work in probably the highest threat environment in the world for corruption and it's something that I am very conscious of," he said. "We are working very hard to make sure that our work force understands: we have zero tolerance."

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