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I, too, want to echo Mrs. Compean when it comes to the lack of support for agents and American citizens in need, in El Paso, by my fellow former agent Silvestre Reyes. Our family contacted Silver Reyes, too, for his assistance when our persecution began at the hands of the Department of Justice. Unlike Agents Compean and Ramos, he did meet with us and promised to help our family. However, that help was an empty promise. After meeting with him (and his staff) five different times, Silver finally informed us that there was nothing he could do. He did not help us at all.

The Department of Justice and Johnny Sutton prosecuted me, and violated every aspect of not only our civil rights, but also basic human rights for nothing more than a typo.

My wife Isabel and I adopted as our daughters, my wife's blood nieces in the courtroom of Judge Patricia Macias, presiding judge in the Texas State District Court located in El Paso. On February 12, 2004, Judge Macias granted my wife and I unconditional adoption, which took place on April 23, 2004.

We enrolled our daughters in school as ordered by Judge Macias. At no time could we ever have imagined what would soon take place.

My wife Isabel asked me to look at our I-94 visa to see when the standard 90-day visa would expire so we could renew it. I was surprised, having been too excited when we picked them up at the El Paso Port of Entry with Juarez, MX to note that the document had provided one sole business day for their permission to enter the
United States on legal business.

Mr. Ramirez has investigated and informed me that the standard practice when issuing entry visas at the ports of entry is to provide for 90 days.

I reported what I thought was a typo error at the Hawkins (TX) Citizenship and Immigration Services office. I was advised by an immigration attorney while at the CIS office to ask for an adjudication officer and seek an extension of the "parole" as it is known. I did exactly as I was advised, which I was informed by the immigration attorney, who guaranteed me that it would not be a problem having already gone through the adoption process with the Texas State District Court in El Paso.

After a number of contacts with the Hawkins office, I was advised that our visa had been approved and to come and pick up the paperwork, and bring your daughters and identification for them, which we did. I was then arrested and later charged with harboring illegal aliens.

My case was tried in the same federal courtroom, by the same participants as Agent Ignacio Ramos.

The Department of Justice never presented the facts in our cases, they just made things up as they went along, as they have done with Agents Compean, Ramos, Brugman, Sipe, Rhodes, Deputy Sheriff Hernandez, and K-9 Officer Mohr.

Here is just a sampling of what Sutton's prosecutors did to my family and how our civil rights were violated:

First, I was charged with smuggling my own legally adopted nieces. Yet, the government has never opposed the adoption paperwork as finalized by the State of Texas, which remains valid today. This was the same type of false statement that Sutton has done to Agents Compean and Ramos though they claim that Agents Compean and Ramos are the wrongdoers and filed false statements.

Next, the government through agents from the Office of Inspector General and the FBI interrogated our daughters without counsel present and were trying to get the girls to admit they were being abused, which they vehemently denied. Is this not a violation of the civil rights of our daughters for being questioned without counsel present to protect their rights? When I think of what the government did to protect the non-existent rights of career drug smuggler Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila as compared to the civil rights of our daughters, it makes my wife and I ill every time knowing what happened to our daughters, and fellow Agents Compean and Ramos as well as their families.

After no evidence of abuse was discovered from this hostile and illegal interrogation, in which the girls were traumatized psychologically; our daughters were, in retaliation for not lying to the government, placed in Removal Proceedings late June 2004.

At the Immigration Hearing on June 20, 2005, our daughters, through their counsel, applied for Admission to the US based on the fact that they are legally adopted daughters of US Citizen Parents. The Immigration Judge denied the Application and ordered them removed. We appealed the decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals ("BIA"), who upheld the original ruling. Our daughters were subsequently deported though their legal and only family remains here in the US.

My daughters were denied all visitation, and communication to us by the Department of Justice throughout this process, though, again, the girls are our legally adopted daughters.

I was informed that according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Debra Kanof that our grand jury hearing transcripts would never see the light of day, exactly what would have happened to my fellow agents Compean and Ramos' transcripts without the help of Congress.

Finally, Johnny Sutton's assistants exercised excessive and abusive interrogations and during testimony before the grand jury our daughters were addressed as "little whores" by the Assistant US Attorney who conducted the hearing on behalf of the Government.

What kind of disgusting place has America become to engage in such tactics against its own citizens and children. While this case has nothing to do with my job performance, it defines the hypocrisy of the so-called Department of JUSTICE who protects dopers, and not agents who do their job, families, or it's children.

This Department of Justice provides just the opposite and I join Mrs. Compean in calling for the impeachments of Attorney General Gonzales, and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton for protecting dopers illegally here, while betraying and preying on young children and violating their civil and human rights.

Thank you.

(From Friends of The Border Patrol's "The Bush War on Law Enforcement" Press Conference April 24, 2007 in Washington DC)

Noe Aleman, a 12 year veteran of the Border Patrol in the El Paso sector is the latest victim of US Attorney Johnny Sutton. Johnny Sutton is the one who put Border Patrol Agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos behind bars for shooting a drug smuggler in the rear while fleeing back to Mexico.

Now we have Border Patrol Agent Noe Aleman's story as reported to me by him at a dinner in support of Ramos, Compean and Gilmer Hernandez, all victims of Johnny Sutton.

Noe and his wife Isabelle planned to adopt their three nieces aged 13, 14 and 16. They hired an immigration attorney and over the course of the adoption they spent a total of $40,000 to adopt the three girls. Soon they were together and had a happy family.

Noe would head off to work everyday putting his life on the line in the El Paso sector patrolling the border and stopping illegal aliens, coyotes and drug smugglers. Time passed and they were required to file more papers regarding the immigration visas of the girls. Now here's where the story takes a wrong turn. It seems that the immigration attorney they hired was incompetent. So much so that the ages of the three girls were listed as 19, 20 and 21.

Things were a complete mess due to this error and the fact that it made all three legal adults and therefore the adoption questionable. The immigration office continued stalling for 6 months on their case and eventually their visa records expired. The girls were listed as illegal aliens.

One day when Noe went to the immigration office to find out what was going on he was arrested on the spot and put in jail with charges of harboring illegal aliens. The family was devastated and the three girls were picked up and placed for deportation.

The girls were sent back across the border and delivered to what they call "a dip" which is a Mexican orphanage. Noe and Isabelle have not seen the girls for over 2 years and Noe has been convicted by Johnny Sutton and now faces 6 months in prison at Yazoo City - the same prison where Ignacio Ramos is being held. He is expected to start his sentence within 30-45 days.

I looked this man and his wife directly in their eyes as they told me their story. I could see the sorrow in them. When I asked Noe about his thoughts on prison he did not show weakness, but only a sense of despair for the three girls and what they are going through. I could feel the sense of loss as they spoke about the lovely family they had while the three girls were with them.

Digger Screams FIRE JOHNNY SUTTON! At the White House

This continued prosecution of our Border Patrol Agents by Johnny Sutton must stop!

I am outraged and you should be to!

How soon before they come for you?

There is an obvious agenda in Texas to absolutely destroy the Border Patrol in any way they can. Whether these orders have come down from the Bush administration or are being requested by Mexico is unknown, but day after day we are hearing about these Border Patrol Agents being targeted. Yes, targeted. These are not simply cases being brought for their actions, but they are being put under a microscope to find any way possible to have them convicted and imprisoned.

It's a damn outrage and it's about time we stood up and said enough is enough!