Border Patrol Agent Injured by Concrete Block Hurled Across the Border
A Border Patrol agent was injured when someone hurled a concrete block at him while he tried to apprehend an illegal immigrant.
A Border Patrol agent was injured when someone hurled a concrete block at him while he tried to apprehend an illegal immigrant.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A 39-year-old Guatemalan suspected of entering the country illegally is behind bars after slamming a Border Patrol agent’s head into a tree branch in Texas early Sunday morning. The agent, who was identified only as J.C., was taken to a hospital for lacerations on his face, but the injuries are not life-threatening,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com They say fingerprints never lie — that is unless they’re altered. Enter Dr. Jose Elias Zaiter-Pou, 62, a Dominican doctor. Zaiter-Pou was sentenced Thursday in U.S. District Court in Boston to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to conceal illegal immigrants from detection by altering their fingerprints, the…
By Tom Jackman Washington Post Staff Writer Salvador Portillo-Saravia, a member of the MS-13 street gang, was charged with raping an 8-year-old girl at her Fairfax County (Va.) home last month. But he never should have been in Fairfax in the first place. Federal officials deported Portillo-Saravia, of Sterling, to El Salvador in 2003, and…
By Allan Lengel tickletheiwire.com A Boston federal jury on Monday convicted a former high ranking Homeland Security official in New England of encouraging her illegal immigrant housekeeper to stay in the country, the Boston Globe reported. Lorraine Henderson, 52, Boston’s port director for Customs and Border Protection, who testified last week that she had done…