crr--it's BIGJ. He can't be translated.
Sugar--I was thinking the same thing!  You beat me to the REK reference.

"Yall wonder why yall someone had won. I guess that’s Lavaca county for ya." What??? Someone please translate

Legion, I can see action from my hotel room in Laredo every night I am there. Last time there was a ladder from the river to the middle of the brige & I watched several go up & a few go down...I was confused about the ones going down, why would you want to swim back to Mexico?

So I guess Robert Earl Keen wasn't exactly right, after all.
Sometimes the road DOESN'T go on forever, and the party actually ends.
 Or, maybe not. With that numbskull ruling cited by Legion, maybe the party has just begun.

December 5, 2006
COURT BARS AUTOMATIC DEPORTATION
OF ALIENS WHO COMMIT DRUG FELONIES
(Lopez v. Gonzales)
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that the federal government is not required to
deport all aliens convicted of drug-related felonies. Rather, the Court held, a state-court
drug-related felony conviction should not lead to automatic deportation unless the crime
for which the alien was convicted would also have been deemed a felony under federal
drug laws.

Welcome to America !!!!!!!

How teriable is that ruling?

Do your part, if your bored on the puter..

http://www.texasborderwatch.com

Usually never see much but WTH, I did once.

Maybe the State should set up a border patrol checkpoint in Goliad County. It would be good employment opportunity.

Nope, not mad. Just saying that I'm as American as anyone else, even if I do speak Spanish. The man didn't belong here regardless of what language he speaks. Somebody let him in, so don't blame me! Blame your land-owning border squad.

As the pickup traveled through Victoria County, the Department of Public Safety, Victoria County Sheriff's Office and the Victoria Police Department monitored the vehicle's progress. The departments stayed in close communication via radio and phone.

The pickup turned down several streets around the Juan Linn neighborhood and eventually turned onto state Highway 87, where it continued through Calhoun County, Brumby said.

Calhoun County deputies were notified and blocked traffic through the intersection of state Highway 35 and state Highway 87, Calhoun County Sheriff B.B. Browning said.

The pickup continued through Port Lavaca where the highway turns into Main Street. When the street dead-ended at the harbor, the pickup struck a utility pole, knocking down power lines, and fell into City Harbor, Browning said.

Nowhere in the article did it say that a Goliad County deputy continue the chase all the way to Calhoun county.

To the poster right before mine, I have no idea what your post was suppose to mean.

Either your mad because you have been discriminated against for your ethnic background, or your ashamed of it. At any rate your comment did not make any sense at all concerning the topic of the article, unless you are trying a little race baiting.

Why did Goliad Co follow him? And why did they hand him over without any charges? Who does that truck belong to???

Call me naive, but I don't quite get it. How can a county deputy cross 2 county lines, nobody else in pursuit, guy goes into the water in Calhoun county, and he goes back to Goliad county and it's OK. Why did the Goliad Co officer follow him. Did he leave Goliad without any patrol to pursue this criminal through 2 other counties, then bring him back? What would have happened if a crime would have taken place at that hour of the morning, and Goliad Co. was left without coverage? Where were the DPS? I just don't understand.

Mark K commented: "I wonder what's attracting them to Goliad." ...... Seriously Mark?

I don't think it's Goliad that is attacting them.... but rather George West, Beeville, Goliad, Victoria, Edna are all towns along Hwy 59 coming up from Laredo to Houston... These illegals get stopped at each place, but don't always make the VicAd..... Ususally only if involves high speed pursuits, and someone getting injured or killed....... But just stopping them and having INS ship them back isn't newsworthy. And as soon as they make it back across the border, they are already planning their next "illegal" entrance.

Why did Victoria not intercept this guy? He was in town, in a neighborhood, with a Goliad deputy after him? Where were our Victoria law enforcement officers???

the article says he was not charged with anything out of goliad county. the only offense committed in goliad could was the traffic violations. The other counties could still charge him.

If the VA has a policy on not publishing names unless they are charged, then why did this guy's name get published? They should publish the name of the person that the truck is registered to, they had to have run the license plates!
Maybe ICE should get involved.
Why did they let him go??? Who did he work for??? Must be some rich guy that has more than 1 undocumented worker at the ranch or rig or job site.

Yes Alton, it did cost the taxpayers money from the very second those red and blue lights came on.
From the standpoint of the law, how much liability could be imposed upon this individual? Could he pay the fine? (No, but his "boss" could!) Feed him and house him at the jail for a while until he gets time served, then back to Mexico? Or put him on probation for six months? How much would that cost?
So, maybe Sheriff Brumby was minimizing losses when he released him to INS. He would've ended up back in Mexico anyway if it got too nasty for him around here. That would be a very difficult pill to swallow as a law enforcement officer.
I wonder what the last batch in Goliad County cost at the hospital when they all got tossed from that Dodge pickup.
Two incidences within a few weeks indicates an identifiable problem in the Goliad area. I wonder what's attracting them to Goliad.

I really hate DWI drivers, and I even hate more illegal alien DWI drivers. But I am bias, some 20 years ago, I lost a 19 year old cousin in an head on auto accident that was caused by an illegal alien DWI driver. My cousin had a bright future ahead of him, he had won the Rhodes Scholarship to attend Oxford.

Back to this blog, this illegal should have been held and placed into some form of work program until he worked off the cost resulting from the damage he created and the cost of housing/feeding him during the work program. The damage to the utility pole, vehicle, pollution of the bay, cost to remove vehicle from the bay, the cost of individual law enforcement departments, and etc. I bet he is bragging to his friends and family about the incidence and how he walked away. After all the USA is a wealthy country.

Right on, "redwhiteblue!" Well-said!

And hats off and a hearty pat on the back to All the officers who gave chase and got another illegal alien drunk off our roads. Unfortunately, it is a short lived victory for law enforcement and for all of us. To these illegals, deportation is no more than a smirk on their respective faces; a means to visit their wives and children in Mexico or south america, and then come back to their wives and children in this country.

Calderon's Mexican government is a joke. His incessant braying about his ability to control the deplorable state of affairs in his third-world miserable country is laughable. He appears to be as inept as that highly unqualified one in our own White House, bumbling around with his almighty pen and discarding solid legislation that wiser minds set in place. Good for our President George W. Bush for freeing Agents Ramos and Compean. It's unfortunate their records will not be expunged and they cannot return to their task of guarding our border and shooting other criminals in the ass.

Hope is renewed with the appointment of Janet Napolitano to our Department of Homeland Security. She clamped down in Phoenix, Arizona and the illegals left in droves. It's too bad we're now stuck with large numbers of them. It would be great if we could just invite Phoenix's good old Sheriff Joe Arapaio to ride into town and clean up this mess. Maybe instead of a border fence, we should just erect a fifty-foot tall statute of him that glows in the dark; just as a friendly reminder.

God bless our veterans, our military, and our police officers everywhere. GOD BLESS AMERICA! Go stings!

Once again, an illegal alien endangers the lives of innocent people. It wouldn't surprise me at all to hear someone try to blame it on the cops. My wife, who is Mexican, is even more outspoken about it. She says and I quote, "Those people need to go back where they came from and apply for citizenship the right way!" One more thing, it is against the law to hire illegal aliens - ICE should go looking for the criminal's boss.

Like Mr. Brown, Senor Ramirez walked because you people insist on being represented and protected by your local bubbas.

Has anyone thought about trying to get away with stupid stund in Mexico? They will throw you under the jail and forget about you till family comes looking for you. If you have a bullet shell in you truck guess what? You go to jail. So now you have this mexican from mexico in USA and he gets a free ride home. Wow only in America.....

NO CHARGES???

MarkKrueger: If an American citizen would've pulled this stunt, he surely wouldn't be chuckling with a free ride out of here.
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Bryan K. Brown, remember him?

How many patrol officers does Goliad have out at 4am?

Why didn't he get stopped in Victoria? Why did the deputy from Goliad continue all the way to Pt. Lavaca?

I'd make more of a comment but the bleeding hearts would try to rip me a new one again.  But I agree with Cedar and Mark 100%. 

MarkKrueger, I couldn't agree with you more. I think they should have left his sorry butt in the bay, sharks need to eat to. You don't here anything out of those whiners, that jumped all over Mr. Long, do you? Guess what Mark, this illegal mexican came out of the same county. Didn't they just have high speed pursuit that ended in a bad wreck (where a dodge truck flipped), and they were all illegals as well. Hmmm! Oh well, let them take care of their selves. There is nothing me and you can do until they let us protect our own borders, or we start doing it on our own.

For English, press 1. Para Espanol, marque el dos.
If an American citizen would've pulled this stunt, he surely wouldn't be chuckling with a free ride out of here.  Hmm...Let's see, if I want preferential treatment around here, maybe I should become a citizen of Mexico so I can DRIVE DRUNK, SPEED,  EVADE ARREST IN THREE COUNTIES, DRIVE WITH NO LICENSE OR INSURANCE, DESTROY PUBLIC PROPERTY AND NOT BE CHARGED!  Shoot, I wouldn't even have to pay INCOME TAX!
Let's turn this around.  Let's say, for example, you were illegally in Germany and decided to go get hammered at the local biergarten and then run from the cops, driving someone else's vehicle through France, then Spain and then ending up smashing into an electric pole and falling into the ocean..  Would you be treated so kindly?  Would you have even made it that far?  Of course not!  But wait, there's more!  The German government brings you back to Germany, buys you a plane ticket home to the good ol' U S of A and says "Guten tag!!"  How likely is this scenario?
Is it not illegal to hire illegal immigrants?  Just who is this guy's "boss" anyway?  I bet it's one of those whiners.
Mr. Ramirez will be back, rest assured.  Heck, he probably already is, knowing he has a ticket to ride with no expiration date.  It's no wonder that the Mexican drug trade is running so rampant.