Murder in Rio Grande Valley: “This is coming to a town near you”
By Michelle Malkin
MichelleMalkin.com
Border Patrol Agent Javier Vega, Jr. R.I.P.
The voice on the other end of the line is
exasperated. “It’s insane,” he wants America to
know. “We’re in a war zone.” And there’s no room for
apathy.
“This is coming to a town near you,” he warns.
The man on the phone is a veteran of the Department
of Homeland Security who works in South Texas. He
reached out to me last night in the wake of an
off-duty U.S. Border Patrol agent’s horrific murder
on Friday. The
36-year-old agent, Javier Vega Jr., was shot
execution-style in front of his wife, his
parents, two of his sons and another child in the
Rio Grande Valley. Vega’s father was also shot but
survived. They were on an idyllic family fishing
trip before being robbed and ambushed.
The two suspects are Mexican nationals from
Matamoros. “They’re here illegally,” my source said
with a weary sigh. And not just that. They had been
previously deported after committing other serious
crimes, he says.
According to my source, one had a history of
smuggling aliens and drugs. The other had previous
arrests for unlawfully carrying a firearm and family
violence issues.
“But we just drop the thugs off at the border, and
they come right back.”
Illegal alien murder suspects Ismael Hernandez and
Gustavo Tijerina
The
National Border Patrol Council issued a moving
statement after a middle-of-the-night manhunt led to
the capture and confessions of the two suspects this
weekend:
“Agent Vega was armed and fought back to protect his
family. During the course of the ensuing firefight
Agent Vega’s father was hit in the leg and Agent
Vega was mortally wounded. After Agent Vega fell,
his family members continued to fight back. Agent
Vega’s actions were in keeping with the finest
traditions of the United States Border Patrol and
his will be a place, deserved of honor and glory,
when the final story of the United States Border
Patrol is written.”
The White House and U.S. Chamber of Commerce may not
speak up, but the NBPC gave the law enforcement
officers on the border their just recognition: “We
want to commend the Border Patrol agents and other
law enforcement officers involved in the manhunt for
Agent Vega’s killers. It is through their
professionalism and tenacity that the wretched
animals who committed this crime will face the full
measure of Texas justice.”
No doubt the bleeding hearts will take offense at
wretched animals being called what they are. I can
hear “progressives” whipping out their overdrawn
race cards as I type. That’s all they’ve got.
Last week, Democrats took to the House floor to
inveigh against heartless Republicans who oppose
expanding President Barack Obama’s administrative
amnesty.
“Un-American.” “Deplorable.” “Hateful.” House
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi imperiously dismissed
enforcement advocate Rep. Tom Marino, R-Pa., as
“insignificant.” It’s
“almost as though they despise and hate all of our
children,” fumed Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.
So, public safety and homeland security concerns are
“insignificant”? More than a half-million border
crossers from Mexico, South America and Central
America granted administrative amnesty or special
border-surge status under Obama are “our children”?
Where are the speeches from Pelosi and her fellow
House Democrats on behalf of the children of Javier
Vega? And for the
children of other fallen agents and
law enforcement
officers? Or for the
children of
countless other victims nationwide murdered by
criminals who waltzed across the borders with
impunity?
And where’s the compassion for the men and women
trying to do the job big business and big government
don’t want done?
The men and women sworn to provide border security —
instead of just talking about it — don’t have time
for Washington games and politically correct
niceties. “A lot of politicians come down here,” my
DHS correspondent says. “They talk about securing
the border, but they
leave us with our hands tied.” He shares his
experiences patrolling vast swaths of the Rio Grande
Valley with no backup. He talks about wasted
resources and the deportation charade. “They get
their papers served,
and then they just disappear.”
Both parties are to blame for the endless cycle of
amnesty, catch and release, and bloodshed, he tells
me. The latest border surge, catalyzed by Obama’s
systemic non-enforcement and bipartisan-enabled
benefits magnets, keeps DHS first responders
overwhelmed by design.
“They keep doing the same thing over and over
again,” he points out, “and it doesn’t work.”
Immigration “reform” doesn’t require hundreds of
pages of new legislation, new waivers, new
employment permits, more lawyers or visa expansion
programs. It starts and ends with this:
Stop pouring fuel on the border chaos fire, and let
our forces on the front lines do their damned jobs.
I tell my DHS correspondent “thank you” and share my
prayers for his safety. He hangs up and gets back to
his work — or as much of it as the politicians in
Washington will allow him to do.
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2014