there are over a dozen border patrol officers.aser is used five separate times on a man who is incapacitated on the ground. not only that, the man holding the taser keeps shouting to the man to quit resisting even though there is no resisting going on. that's probably intended for the crowd that is gathering all around. so as far as the justice department and the border patrol, this is business as usual. >> in your piece, you write with insufficient training and oversight perhaps it is no surprise that since may 2010 tlfb at least ten documented cases of unarmed and noncombative immigrants resulting in deaths. in this case, the family has filed a civil suit. i want to get the government's view. it says cbp employees and officers perform their duties with honor and distinction tirelessly to keep the country safe. we do not tolerate abuse within our ranks and we fully cooperate with any criminal or administrative investigations. you talk about how many new agents have been hired to monitor the borders and the lack of training in som

and finally border patrol officers arrived to this place. the michigan state police officer had left. and the border patrol officers confirmed that i was telling the truth and i was let go. i never received a ticket for my traffic violation, but more importantly i never got an apology. i believe in the opportunities and dreams the u.s. represents. i believe in the promise of equality and justice for all. and as i thought more about this experience, i realized that i couldn't just ignore what had happened. because there are others just like me who are harassed, arrested, and deported. for no other reason than a police officer's perception of what a citizen should look like or sound like. >> i went to the aclu of michigan. for help. and they sent a letter to the michigan state police on my behalf asking for answers and an internal investigation. a few days later i sat in the aclu's office. while a police internal investigator asked me to tell my story. that was another proud day for me because i knew that i had made a difference. although i st

would you support the creation of a new border patrol station. >> niagara is under consideration. the issue is money for construction after new facility but niagara is under consideration. >> you think it's a good idea to have it there and we have to find the funds. >> that's one way to put it, yes, sir. >> yes. i like the yes part of that answer. thank you. mr. chairman. i am finished with my -- i would yield back my remaining time. >> thank you, mr. chairman. first, just a statement i want to give you an update on some of the -- first of all i want to put a statement in the record. i was going to have a -- yeah. >> senator, i don't know that your microphone is on. >> i'm not talking into it. that's the problem. i'm surprised you want to hear me. but thank you. first an update. about 99% of the time when i write you i don't get a response directly from you, the response comes from allege affairs. second many times my questions are rarely if ever answered. third, that delays are unacceptable. and just last night i received a response from the department about cook county, six mont

you know traditionally the border patrol has been an agency that has gone rogue for lack of a better word they are a cowboy agency that operate on many instances without any sort accountability without any sort of real cool provision and it's time now that the that the agency is held accountable for its actions over the past couple of years since two thousand and ten we've documented about eight cases where people have lost their lives but over the poor system of history the border patrol has always been known as a nick get out of its own rules without any real regulations or responsibility held over the agents their conduct themselves professionally or that engage in misconduct. now people like republican presidential candidate mitt romney they're going to argue that something needs to be done about immigration and the immigration problem in america it's a very hot topic and the u.s. today what do you say is that believe that this may be the only way to deter people from evil illegally entering the u.s. i think that every single person needs to be held are treated with respect and d

you see a boat being followed by customs and border patrol agents overhead. yep. you see bales of drugs being dropped into the water. >> how many objects? okay. about five, six. >> i wonder what happens to these guys if they make it out, away from the coast guard, what happens when their bosses catch them. >> but watch here. they jump out of the boat. >> the people in the boat have jumped out. the boat is over them. >> you're in a neighborhood. their boat is in a neighborhood. can you imagine coming out of your front door and a boat is sitting on your front porch? >> the people are coming out to see where the boat crashed into a couple of structures. >> like an episode of "miami vice." >> looks like a stunt boat driver ditched this for a movie or something. >>> a santa monica college board of trustees meeting got out of hand the other night. this is the aftermath. what you're looking at are students running from the meeting after they had been pepper sprayed in the hallway outside of the main meeting room. students are going to be asked to pay four times as much m

impounded, i was handcuffed and driven to an empty parking lot to wait for border patrol officers. [speaking spanish] >> i could not understand why this was happening to me. >> [speaking spanish] >> i felt worse than any criminal because the criminal knows that when he is arrested, it is because he is at fault. >> [speaking spanish] >> he knows he has to pay for something he did wrong. >> [speaking spanish] >> but i did nothing wrong. i was working. >> [speaking spanish] >> hi pleaded with the officer to listen to me, to believe me that i was telling the truth. >> [speaking spanish] >> i told him i am a citizen. >> [speaking spanish] >> but it did not matter. >> [speaking spanish] >> i offered to show him my social security card. >> [speaking spanish] >> but he refused to look at it. >> [speaking spanish] >> finally, border patrol officers are arrived. >> [speaking spanish] >> the michigan state police officer had left - >> [speaking spanish] >> and the border patrol officers confirmed that i was telling the truth and i was let go. >> [speaking spanish] >> i never received a ticket

the border patrol is associated with the economic realities. >> okay.we have about five minutes, or three minutes. if we can get a few questions answered. >> this is a follow up question to sylvia who spoke earlier about legalization of drugs in the u.s. and what impact that might have on cartels. some in latin america are taking steps to legalizing drugs and i wonder what your thoughts are on the impact of legalized drugs in other countries that it could have on the cartel problem and also what impact does it have on u.s. policy in relation with those countries? >> one thing that i want to make very clear is that a lot of people don't understand the difference between decriminalization and -- decriminalization and legalization. what -- a lot of people talk about portugal having legalized -- they have decriminalized meaning that if you are busted with a couple of joints are not going to jail. it's like getting a traffic ticket. it's still illegal in every country in the world to manufacture and produce all these different drugs. mexico itself quietly de

to replace the existing niagara falls border patrol station. as you know, the existing station is insufficient for your current needs. we all agree to that given all the new security. we have had terrorists cross over the buffalo border. it lacks the capacity needed to accommodate the number of agents now housed at the station, doesn't have the space and resources your agents need to do the job. a new station at niagara air base can comfortbly the accommodate 509s agents, even 75. it will also include critical items that the patrol needs such as the main administration building will be suited for mustering and training, wealth include an armory and necessary storage space, ancillary buildings that it will house vehicle maintenance and closed parkings and kennels, obviously we have the dogs at the border, too. this new station would be a win for the border patrol and the air force base because its mission is being curtailed because of cutbacks in the military. >> would you support the construction of a new air station at the base? >> niagara is

border patrol armed with military equipment barrel agents attempt to keep the peace but for some living in the scenic desert region there is no peace here what we are seeing on the arizona border is an insurgency. the perceived threat of cartel violence spilling over from mexico has led to a proposal for a new border militia here along the us mexico border it's one of the most heavily fortified anywhere in the world evidence shows that the obama administration has spent plenty of federal dollars in order to help secure the border but to some people in arizona that still isn't enough the proposed special missions unit would allow armed volunteers to pursue and arrest people they suspect to be smugglers or undocumented immigrants arizona as a state has taken control of its own destiny whether or not the federal government recently have the right. but many others in arizona question the purpose of the special missions unit and how it will be held accountable not only will volunteers be allowed to pursue suspected criminals they would also be afforded the same immunity as law enforcement an

as a result of this bill, arizona's 373-mile border with mexico is patrolled by over 5,200 border patrol agents and 300 national guardsmen, a 31% increase from 2008, which resulted in a 61% reduction in unlawful border crossings over the same period. and yesterday, study reported that immigration from mexico has dropped to net zero when comparing the number of people entering the u.s. from mexico to the number of people returning from mexico. some in arizona might wish to take credit for this but the study shows this is a national trend, based on increased federal enforcement at southern border and decreased availability of jobs for foreign workers. and this deals -- this chart reveals immigration to the u.s. from mexico. it's national. and because of what we've done on the border, as you can see, the number has gone significantly down from a high of 770,000 people in 2000 to a now 140,000 people in 2010. that's a dramatic drop. we've repeatedly invited our republican colleagues to sit done with us and discuss how best to reform our broken immigration system in a manner both parties can

which we needed to do because back then we had 1800 agents along the border and we have 20,000 border patrol agents protecting our country, that was needed but that was more than that was needed. sins than, as we tighten up our border security individuals come into the country knew that once they made it past the border they could continue where our interior enforcement has been minimal. so once they make it past the border they were safe where there was chicago or illinois. that is one of the failures of our immigration enforcement. >> caller: i'm wondering what immigration means. >> host: her question is what is immigration mean? >> guest: our country has been the recipient of many immigrants throughout the world. often in the united states we think of legal or illegal immigration as just being a mexican issue. to the contrary we have immigrants from all over the world. they have contributed greatly to our country. but i think it is important to address that we have legal immigration and illegal immigration. we need to make sure we enforce immigration law, address these, that is a short ve

the officer had called border patrol. my card was impounded. i was handcuffed and driven to an empty parking lot to wait for border patrol officers. i couldn't understand why this was happening to me. i felt worse than any criminal. a criminal knows when he's arrested it's because he's at

both had jurisdiction over border patrol, custom, general services. i used all the jurisdictions to focus law and resources on the u.s. southwest border, along with my many colleagues at the time, including some not from border states like allen simpson and mark hatfield of oregon. we worked in a bipartisan effort. i participated as a member of the select committee and commission on immigration and refugee policy, along with my friend strom thurman, allen simpson, ted kennedy. the committee issued a report in 1981 which led to passage of comprehensive immigration reform bill during president reagan's administration. let me remind everyone, president reagan supported that bill, setting of a date to grandfather those in this country who were here illegal with a pathway to citizenship if they did not have a criminal record. i continue to work hard to see that this happens and occurs. many ask why our efforts did not work way back in 1981. there's an answer. we did not secure the borders, even though we passed comprehensive immigration reform. former senat

this border patrol agent by the way was on a bicycle patrol, he had no protection at all, when he was arresting an illegal immigrant across the rio ground. he pointed his gun a couple of times before he actually shot but he was surrounded by those teenagers. that's when he opened fire. as we have pointed out many times, the border patrol agents in that area have been hurt seriously by rocks on a number of occasions, and in this case, the justice department looked at the videotape, they ran the evidence, and they found that this was self-defense on the part of that border patrol agent. now, a judge in texas has also ruled that the family of the 15-year-old boy who was shot cannot sue the u.s. government for wrongful death, but they can sue the border patrol agent. and even though the justice department says this was self-defense, the family of that boy right there now says they will continue to pursue a lawsuit against that border patrol agent. but the conclusion here is that was, in fact, self-defense on that day, megyn. megyn: significant developments there today, trace, thank you. >

you have got the border patrol agent dead. that's big. and there is no doubt they botched it.nd now ms. pavlick is saying not only did they botch it but ill conceived thing in the beginning to impact on second amendment rights. i mean, that's a pretty strong charge. >> it is. but i heard your interview with her. and i'm not sure that she established the case. maybe she does in her book. i'm not sure she established the case in her interview with you. >> bill: you don't think this is going to impact in november? >> i don't know, bill. you never know where these things are going to go. you don't know what's finally going to come out. we have been knawing at this thing for a while now and it hasn't become exposed. remember, things like this have to compete with larger issues, the condition of the economy. you know, the increase in gasoline prices. the people's dislike of the healthcare program. you know, there is a lot that this -- people are worried about in this administration. these things have to compete with those things for priority. >> bill: yeah, i would think though if t

i saw kind of two border patrol agent on top of him.ants were to his knees and seemed as if his feet were also bound at the time. over the course of 25 minutes it escalated and several more officers showed up. i witnessed annesteo tased five times. >> tell it me about hernandez rojas. who was he? >> he was an undocumented immigrant from mex coico and ca to the united states when he was 16 and lived in the united states over 25 years and held a construction job for all of those years. he was found to be undocumented and was in the process of being deported when this incident happened. >> i want to play a little clip from the documentary and you're narrating so let's have folks listen and i'll ask awe question on the other end. >> reporter: you can see hernandez rojas on the ground surrounded by more than a dozen officers. pay attention to the officer's extended arm. can you clearly see the sparking of his taser as he fires two wires carrying more than a thousand volts of electricity into hernandez rojas. >> oh, guy modern. >> john, what

you have got the border patrol agent dead. that's big. and there is no doubt they botched it.vlick is saying not only did they botch it but ill conceived thing in the beginning to impact on second amendment rights. i mean, that's a pretty strong charge. >> it is. but i heard your interview with her. and i'm not sure that she established the case. maybe she does in her book. i'm not sure she established the case in her interview with you. >> bill: you don't think this is going to impact in november? >> i don't know, bill. you never know where these things are going to go. you don't know what's finally going to come out. we have been knawing at this thing for a while now and it hasn't become exposed. remember, things like this have to compete with larger issues, the condition of the economy. you know, the increase in gasoline prices. the people's dislike of the healthcare program. you know, there is a lot that this -- people are worried about in this administration. these things have to compete with those things for priority. >> bill: yeah, i would think though if the republican

they lost control of some the weapons and one of them killed a border patrol agent in arizona.s is katie pavlick author of the new book out today "fast and furious" barack obama's bloodiest scandal and shameless coverup. quite a subtitle there. >> it's factual. >> bill: it may be factual, ms. pavlick but it has not gotten traction. this story has not hurt president obama as much as talk radio and some conservative pundits are yelling and screaming and you and your book not there and i want to know why. why aren't people responding to this? >> first of all, people don't know about the details. he is being protected by the mainstream old media about. this because they know if the american people knew about the details of this program and what they did to push a political agenda that it would definitely swipe a second term from obama. >> bill: let's walk through this very specifically. who is they? who hatched this thing. >> nbc has failed to. >> bill: no, no, not the media. >> okay. >> bill: who is they? who hatched fast and furious. >> justice department. at officials from the j

border is a surge. but it's not just the drug cartels we're talking about these are armed civilian militia members patrolling the arizona border and here's the kicker lawmakers aren't only supporting it many one fund it so is this the new era of the border patrol. good evening it's monday april sixteenth seven pm in washington d.c. my name's christine and you're watching r.t. well it's always fun the time of year to hear some of the arguments people make against paying taxes but there are a form of slavery that pain taxes should be voluntary but no matter what nearly everyone thinks changes to the tax system are needed here's the pew research survey taken at the end of two thousand and eleven about how people feel about the tax system fifty nine percent say there's so much wrong congress should completely change it and about thirty four percent say it works pretty well but congress should make minor changes. so we think it's a good day to talk to axes and to help me do that i was joined earlier by wayne allen root a two thousand and eight libertarian vice presidential nominee he also wrote the book the consc

i have been told by ice agents as well as border patrol agents that as soon as that started coming into play, people were fleeing arizona to other stays. >> bill: going over the border is not as intense. >> exactly. >> bill: i do agree that the economy does. here in new york where i live, there are still tons of illegal aliens getting painting jobs and jobs in construction. >> sure. >> bill: it's in the liberal states, the sanctuary states, california, new york, maryland, massachusetts, it's still the way it was. but pew says that a lot of people going back and, you know, that's what they say. i will give you the last word. >> and we are seeing other states jump on arizona's bandwagon. whatever happens in the supreme court and we see justice sotomayor right now questioning the obama administration, that's a big move to say that maybe the supreme court is going to allows arizona law to stand. so this will be interesting to see how -- >> bill: don't get too optimistic on that, sara. >> i will try not to. >> bill: that's why i ask the tough questions so they're not accused of being in the

here's the kicker lawmakers aren't only supporting it we want to fund it so is this a new era of border patrol. well good evening it's monday april sixteenth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm christine and you're watching our team. all right guys let's talk taxes there are many of you who just might be working on yours as you watch this if you're even reminded of the bigger picture of the tax system in america and some issues and that's not these things though that's a large portion of the population here's a pure research survey taken at the end of two thousand and eleven about how people feel about the tax system fifty nine percent say so much is wrong that congress should completely change it and about thirty four percent say works pretty well but congress should make minor changes so we want to talk taxes earlier i spoke to the market taker's karl denninger and we started off by looking at this from a historic perspective this was an american back in world war two era this was sold to americans as a program to help help uncle sam during and after the war that it's every citizen's patriotic d

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i have been told by ice agents as well as border patrol agents that as soon as that started coming intoeople were fleeing arizona to other stays. >> bill: going over the border is not as intense. >> exactly. >> bill: i do agree that the economy does. here in new york where i live, there are still tons of illegal aliens getting painting jobs and jobs in construction. >> sure. >> bill: it's in the liberal states, the sanctuary states, california, new york, maryland, massachusetts, it's still the way it was. but pew says that a lot of people going back and, you know, that's what they say. i will give you the last word. >> and we are seeing other states jump on arizona's bandwagon. whatever happens in the supreme court and we see justice sotomayor right now questioning the obama administration, that's a big move to say that maybe the supreme court is going to allows arizona law to stand. so this will be interesting to see how -- >> bill: don't get too optimistic on that, sara. >> i will try not to. >> bill: that's why i ask the tough questions so they're not accused of being in the tank. if

. >> to begin with, in arizona, there are 40% more border patrol agents and there were five years ago --than tthere were fined years ago. what you have to understand about immigration is that it is a complex problem. you squeeze the borders in texas and california, people go to arizona. farmers depend o immigrants to harvest their fields. a lot of these states that have passed strict laws, step officers say we did not know we were voting for. >> they bypassed the state this year and lost -- >> right. >> let me ask another question about the argument. the solicitor general has taken a beating again. evenotomayor took him ca task. >> the sections that are at issue, they do different things. trying to uphold s.b. 1070 looks to be a difficult task, and probably justice department officials knew that. there are other sections of the law that makes it illegal for people to work or seek work if they are not legally in the country. theeder government has said -- has ever shame -- has a regime that does not make it a crime to work. >> evan? >> even if hispanics are going on, which appears to t

only after the death of border patrol agent brian terry was the operation shut down.ned this video from a government camera that was outside his home watching his garage that shows him in one incident firing a 45 caliber at two men who were trying to steal guns from his garage. that weapon was purchased illegally by an accomplice and straw buyer by the name of sean stewart. 15 shell casings were recovered from the shootout. he was arrested and released. some congressional investigators say it is possible accosta was let go because he was an informant. >> i think there are a lot of other agencies involved. i think there is a lot of confidence from the people that are on the beat down on the street at the lowest level. they were doing the hard, heavy lifting. but somebody back in washington, d.c. was making terrible, disastrous calls on this. and it's led to the death of a lot of people. >> now, agency that the atf did not want to arrest accosta because it would have eliminated their chance of getting a wire tap. and without the wire, they could not have a bigger case.

we've seen steady increases in number of border patrol and border protection, officers monitoring our borders. and i take special notice working with canadian officials on and beyond the border initiative, coordinating on our shared northern border. i ammism pressed with that. and it's rare that somebody is parochial on any of these committees but in vermont, many people look forward to our friends from canada visiting enjoying all that vermont has to offer. and when i was a youngster, you just -- probably going to another state, is that easy going back and forth across the border, we take that for granted. i hope we can work on that to keep it -- protect our security but keep that border open as possible. i was pleased the program among your recommendations, those of the president's council on jobs and competitiveness we worked with that in vermont. i look forward to working with reauthorization of this program and senator grassy and i have been working to get this and other expiring visa programs reauthorized on a bipartisan measure. continue to work with you and to strengthen and i

would you support the creation of a new border patrol station at an accra air force base?>> is very much under consideration, senator. the issue is for construction of a new facility, but certainly nyack or is under consideration. >> so it's a good idea to have it there and we have to find the funds for a? >> that's one way to put it, yes, sir. >> i like the yes part of that answer. thank you. mr. chairman, i am finished. i would yield back my remaining time. >> thank you, mr. chairman. first, just a statement i want to give you an up date. first of all, i want to put a statement on the record. >> senator, i don't know that your microphone is on. >> i'm not talking right into it. that's the problem. i'm surprised you want to hear me, but thank you. [laughter] first, not. about 99% of the time when i write you, no good response strictly from you. the response comes from legislators. second and more frustrating, many times my questions are rarely, if ever answered. third, delays are unacceptable. just five night i received a response from the department about cook county six

. >> hip leado acosta, former border patrol agent, also joins us. hipilido, are you with us sh. >> yes i am. >> maybe's he's not. yes, he is. hi, there. what are we missing on this debate? in other words, illegal immigrants come to this country and they find work and they sometimes find good work and sometimes lousy work. we have war on drugs laid on top of it and all these issues. at end of the day, what were we missing when it comes to our relationship with immigrants, period can be in this country and illegal immigrants specifically? >> well, let me just start off by saying that one of the things we are missing here is that the reason people keep tumming into our country and have for years is because of the lack of interior enforcement. we have increased border resources to make it harder to protect our country and that's been the correct thing to do. but over the years we have neglected to have any type of interior enforcement, and that magnet continued to draw immigrants, illegal immigrants, into the country. we have immigrants from across the

plus, the family of an illegal immigrant say he was beaten and tased to death by border patrol agentso of the incident has surfaced and the justice department now investigating. >>> plus, when peace and violence collide. metta world peace says this is bow was an accident. do you buy that? it's our gut check. >> the chinese murder mystery is peeling back the curtain on the culture of corruption at the earth of the leadership. it could be right out of a john la car ray book. a leading candidate stripped of all power his wife accused of murdering a british colleague and whose body was cremated within hours of his mysterious death before an autopsy could be held. the case has raised embarrassing questions also of a cover-up for downing street which failed to investigate for months. paul french is a journalist and the author of "midnight in peking." he joins me now. your mystery you've examined is an older mystery but paul, you've looked into this one, as well. we're talking about agextraordinary about bo xilai who was up for the politburo, a prominent communist party leader. his bif gu ka