No Drug Smuggler Left Behind

NO DRUG SMUGGLER LEFT BEHIND!
by Ann Coulter
June 13, 2007

President Bush was so buoyed by the warm reception he was given in Albania
that he immediately gave all 3 million Albanians American citizenship,
provided they learn Spanish. The offer was withdrawn when Bush found out
most Albanians haven't broken any U.S. laws.

Bush keeps claiming he's dying to enforce the border, but he just can't do
it unless we immediately grant amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens. I
wonder if that worked on Laura Bush:

Laura: George, it's time you quit drinking.
George: OK, honey, let's discuss it over cocktails.

How about Bush enforce the border and then we'll discuss his amnesty plan?

He assures us that granting amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants
already here won't inspire millions more to run across the border because
... he's going to put infrared lights at the border!

Well, that's a relief. What precisely will infrared lights do again? This
is worse than those fake cameras they sell at hardware stores to make it
look like you have cameras outside your house. We still need something or
someone - say, a wall or a Border Patrol agent - to stop the Mexicans
illegally crossing the border as we watch them on the infrared cameras.

Bush won't build a wall and he keeps prosecuting law enforcement officers
who stop illegal border crossers. But trust him: He'll get right on that
border enforcement business as soon as we grant amnesty to 12 million
illegal aliens.

Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean are normally the sort of
Mexican-Americans Bush would tear up at while promoting amnesty for
illegal aliens. Both served in the military and are taxpaying, law-abiding
citizens. They've been risking their lives as Border Patrol agents for
years.

Ramos was nominated for Border Patrol Agent of the Year in 2005. His
nomination received a major setback when the Bush administration decided
to put him in prison instead. Ramos and Compean are now serving more than
10 years apiece in solitary confinement for chasing a drug-running illegal
alien back to Mexico.

Bush's pal, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, gave immunity to a Mexican drug
dealer hauling a million dollars worth of drugs across the border so that
the drug dealer could testify against two Border Patrol agents who shot
him in the buttocks.

The border patrol agents were presumed guilty of an unlawful shooting
because they neglected to fill out the proper paperwork. For busting a cap
in the butt of a drug courier crossing the border illegally - who was so
mortally wounded that he proceeded to scamper back to Mexico - they were
supposed to spend five hours filling out paperwork. This is what the Bush
administration means when it talks about a "cover-up." As U.S. prosecutor
Debra Kanof said, "You have to report any discharge of a firearm."

Intriguingly, Kanof also says: "The Border Patrol pursuit policy prohibits
the pursuit of someone." (Hence, the oft-heard warning of the border agent
in hot pursuit, "Stop or I'll ... do absolutely nothing!") Can we apply
this rule to meter maids and tax collectors? At least now border agents
will be able to watch the illegal aliens they can't pursue on infrared
cameras!

But wait - that's not all! The Border Patrol agents also exceeded the
speed limit. "In order to exceed the speed limit," Kanof said, "you have
to get supervisor approval, and they did not." It's just so hard to fill
out a written request to exceed the speed limit when you're off-roading at
65 mph. There's a whispering campaign suggesting that Ramos and Compean
failed to use their turn signal.

As I understand it, you're also supposed to not cross the border illegally
from Mexico with a van full of drugs. But the Bush administration has no
interest in enforcing those laws. Ninety-eight percent of illegal aliens
captured crossing the border illegally are not prosecuted. Those drugs are
doing the job American drugs just won't do!

The Bush administration pulls out the big guns only for serious violations
like a Border Patrol officer not filling out paperwork.

In addition to giving the illegal alien drug smuggler full immunity to
testify against U.S. Border Patrol agents, the government gave him
taxpayer-funded medical care for his buttocks wound, an unconditional
border-crossing card, the right to sue the U.S. for "civil rights"
violations, and a GAP gift card. The drug runner is also on the short-list
to replace Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

He's now suing the U.S. for $5 million, but the Bush administration is
hoping to bargain him down to $10 million.

That border-crossing card came in handy when the winged illegal alien
brought in another load of drugs a short eight months later - for which he
has still not been charged, nearly two years later. Who does he think he
is? Rep. William Jefferson?

Bush's pal Sutton keeps defending his decision to prosecute Border Patrol
agents for paperwork violations, rather than an illegal alien for drug
trafficking, on the grounds that the drug dealer has not been charged with
any crimes. Let's see, whose job is it to charge that Mexican drug runner
with a crime? Why, I believe that would be Johnny Sutton!

Maybe Sutton was too busy prosecuting another Mexican-American law
enforcement officer for trying to stop illegal aliens from crossing our
border. Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez shot at the tires of a van full of
illegal aliens, inadvertently wounding one of the aliens. Sutton
prosecuted Hernandez. The government proceeded to give the illegal aliens
green cards and $100,000 each.

I didn't realize "living in the shadows" meant in the shadows of palm
trees around the pools at taxpayer-funded houses.

Illegal aliens might want to rethink Bush's amnesty plan. The only
Hispanics Bush seems to prosecute are the ones who are law-abiding U.S.
citizens.

COPYRIGHT 2007 ANN COULTER