Would you have risked your life for illegals?? NOT ME!!?
By Debbi Farr Baker
UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM
12:57 p.m. July 13, 2007
U.S. Border Patrol photo
An alert Border Patrol agent kept a van full of suspected illegal immigrants from plunging over this embankment.
SAN DIEGO – A Border Patrol agent got behind the wheel of a driverless van carrying a dozen suspected illegal immigrants and kept it from plummeting off a 50-foot embankment early Thursday, the agency said.
A Mazda MVP minivan carrying 12 people was first spotted by agents shortly after midnight traveling west on Old Highway 80 near Kitchen Creek Road east of Buckman Springs. An Acura sedan carrying two people was driving near it, Border Patrol agent Richard Smith said.
The agents attempted to stop the Mazda but it sped off, turned around, and headed east on Old Highway 80.
Plainclothes agents in unmarked vehicles followed the van until it reached Miller Valley Road west of Boulevard. The driver bailed out, leaving the vehicle in gear and heading toward a rocky cliff.
The agency said the agent was able to get in the driver's seat and stop the van before it plummeted off the road. None of the passengers inside were wearing seat belts.
Advertisement All of the people in the van and the driver were arrested and are Mexican citizens. A second agent suffered multiple injuries to his knee and back as well as face lacerations and had to be hospitalized after he fell down the embankment as he tried to catch the driver.
Two U.S. citizens in the Acura, which was stopped without incident, were arrested on suspicion of illegal-immigrant smuggling.
“This is another prime example of how an illegal smuggling organization prioritizes profits over human safety,” Smith said.
Smith said it is a common practice for drivers attempting to smuggle illegal immigrants to bail out of a moving vehicle because they know the agents will attend to the endangered occupants first. That means they get a head start as they try to get away, he said.
Answer:
a life is a life .........
I would risk my life to get them out of this country!
'nough said!
I'm hoping I would try my best to save any human being. If you wouldn't,you should be ashamed
As much as I am against illegal immigration, if it was within my ability to save a life, yes I would absolutely have saved a life. I think life itself precious. I would of course follow the law and let them know that after saving their life if they didn't go back they would be reported.
You would chose to let someone die cause there illegal? Your a coward and a racist.
I would have saved them and drove them back to the border , immediately. On a side note, they jailed the U.S. ctizens for bringing them in ( as they should) but what did they do with the illegals? Leave them here I suppose?
Hello,
Yes. In many of these sorts of scenarios be it a fire or flood to this one doing the rescuing onl has seconds to make a decision and act and a person's legal status is the last thing on your mind. You have to do what you've got to do.
If I had a moment to assess the situation and let one or more people die since I did not agree with their social status, I would have a hard time living with that the rest of my life.
It is up to the courts to handle detention, deportation et al; not me, fire fighters, paramedics or border patrol who ought to know where their jobs end and judges' and lawyers' begin.
Michael
Probably not. I should look out for my family first!
I doubt they would try to do anything for me, except take money from taxpayers.
I'm sorry senora, u sound unhappy with Mexican hombres eh.
You think u tuff lady huh..
Okky u point ur finger at me & say "Theres the bad mexican"
I'm not the bad guy, I'm Pablo Escobar Valtine & say thiz to all anglo americans: BUSINESS is BUSINESS & nada anglo americans can do except leave Cali & go travel to east coast or north mid wet sections.
Your asking if I would risk my life to save a fellow man? Yes, I would. I do not see color, or status when I see a human being walking down the street. When I see that someones life is at stake, I think it is our place as a fellow man to help. Maybe it's just the way I was raised, maybe it's my own beliefs what have you; it is not our place to sit and watch someone die, when there is something that can be done about it. Someone apparently didn't think that their lives meant anything, but to some brave person their lives did. Maybe that is what is wrong with our country today, we do not care about our fellow man like the word tells us we should. You live and die with the decisions and choices you make, not me.
As a human being, I wouldn't stand by and watch anyone die if I could help them. But I would not risk my life to help illegals come into our country.
NO!
Not a chance.
Call me coward, racist, or whatever, I consider them to be hostile racist invaders conducting a war against my country.
If they die in the process then that is 12 less enemies to deal with at the next anti-American rally.
They have made their agenda clear and stated their hatred for us. They want us out by any means necessary.
Aztlan, La Raza, and MEChA--they all belong or are sympathetic or they would come here legally.
If you are a Mexican illegal then you are my enemy and if you die through your own stupidity, its not my fault or responsibility.
Yes I would save a life and I would also like to give anything in my power to catch the human-smugglers for They are the ones profiting from these wanna-illegal aliens.
Great job done by the Border Patrol also The minuteman save a lot of illegals every nite with water food & first aid. They may do us wrong be sneaking in an breaking our laws but saving there lives i would. I would still deport them though.
Of course. I may not agree with people illegally entering this country, but they are still human beings. I couldn't stand by and watch another human being die if it were reasonably possible for me to save them.
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