Danger Lurks in our Heartland and Borderland

“For of men it may generally be affirmed, that they are thankless, fickle, false studious to avoid danger, greedy of gain, devoted to you while you are able to confer benefits upon them, and ready, as I said before, while danger is distant, to shed their blood, and sacrifice their property, their lives, and their children for you; but in the hour of need they turn against you.” (Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527)

In today’s political climate we have observed two things that are crystal-clear. The first is the corruption of our government and how it serves those who serve themselves. The second is the fact that it appears that our foundation of freedom hinges on survival of the fitness as the political battlegrounds resemble an act of war on our constitution and law enforcement and those citizens who stand behind the constitution as it was written and the laws as they were intended. Surely this must be an inspiration for all those patriots to assemble and come to the aid of their country that is in dire need right now to release itself from the grips of those very politicians who have failed to endorse the principles of American freedom and the enforcement of our immigration laws enacted today through passive and covert executive powers demonstrating a will for amnesty; a proposal that is being rejected by the majority of this country.

Our men and women of the United States Border Patrol as well as many other law enforcement agents are under fire for following the rules of engagement that requires them to arrest, detain and process illegal aliens that come into this country without paper to do so. Under pressure from a sorry breed of men representing the justice department and foreign interests, the lawmen need to take extra precautions and be more careful in their jobs to avoid being offended and put on the “blacklist” of undesirables such as border agent Jesus Diaz, Jose Compean, Gary Brugman, Hardrick Crawford, Gilmer Hernandez, Celerino Castillo and Ramos and many more lawmen assigned at or around the borderlands. Inspiring their twisted policies with precisely targeted and selective prosecution and persecution, it is obvious that their obligations to represent our law community has been reversed as it jumps to the aid of our foreign country south of the border as it [Mexico] complains about the actions of the border patrol and lawmen on the border.

Americans should take notice and heed the mood of this administration as it is leading our nation towards the path of division, fear and hate that will ruin this country if allowed to fester and grow like a cancerous cell this deed is. The government has chosen to meddle in matters of justice, property and freedom. They have imposed sanctions on free men and allowed the offenders to roam free without restrictions. Such actions are surely acts of contempt for our U.S. Constitution and the rights of all American citizens as we are being held captive under government rule that allows others to run free.

There is little doubt that the current administration and their immoral agents have forgotten the sacrifices and the pain others have suffered to keep America free. Free from injustice and free from wrongful prosecutions and persecutions through mock trials of legitimate and brave lawmen that followed their oath and duty to protect our country. It appears that they want to confiscate our freedom and relish the power and greed for themselves as they watch innocent people suffer while sitting in jail or prison as those who point the fingers and accuse these officers walk about free with false accusations and support from government officials in the capacity to pull the right strings to bring needless suffering to those who are faithful to our cause and shed the blood, sweat and tears for protecting our nation’s borders.

Retiring this “question of being loved or feared” this matter can be summed up by acclaiming “, that since his being loved depends upon his subjects, while his being feared depends upon himself, a wise Prince should build on what is his own, and not on what rests with others. Only, as I have said, he must do his utmost to escape hatred.”

Source:

Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527). The Prince
The Harvard Classics 1909–14.

http://www.bartleby.com/36/1/17.html

http://www.advocatescouncil.us/US-vs-JDiaz.htm

Borderland Politics

When filmmaker John Carlos Frey wrote this Huffington Post story “Flagrant Human Rights Violations on U.S. Soil” I became aware of the article’s direction and decided that something needed to be written defending those who defend our border under the most difficulty situations imagined by law enforcement. First off, the articles reads” In the border region it is common practice. Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. U.S. official reports stated he was resisting and became combative. Officers used a tazer to subdue him. Eyewitness accounts and video contradict the official report. To date, no officers involved have been prosecuted and all details of the case remain confidential. Anastasio was unarmed. That argument suggests we throw away the entire Declaration of Human Rights signed and co-authored by the United States over 60 years ago. Human rights protect all in all circumstances. The official report suggested Jose was shot with a tazer, fell on a rock and hit his head. All information about the case remains confidential and all officers involved are still on the job. Jose was unarmed. Shouldn't rogue law enforcement officers be reprimanded or fired? In addition there are literally thousands of cases of migrant death and systemic human rights abuses of migrants in detention facilities and during the repatriation process. “(Huffington Post 2011)

Living in the state of Arizona and very much in touch with the dynamics of the borderland politics, it must be said unequivocally that this article collates all the cops working in this sector as “rogue law enforcement officers” who need to be reprimanded or fired for doing what is being alleged as torturous and illegal activities related to human rights etc. This statement is so far off base, it requires neither explanation nor apology. The problem on the borderland is not these agents but rather the guidelines they have to work under as enforcement officers for the government. A government who prosecutes those who they determine have violated civil rights or color of law rules and pursuing them with an amount of “zeal” and “vigor” that should have been placed on the enforcement of our immigration laws etc. this travesty of justice of targeting our border patrol agents has grown into a national scandal as begun to target border agents instead of illegal immigration. To summarize the “degrading” treatment of those caught and apprehended there is no way I know after 25 years in law enforcement to be arrested and not suffer some level of “degrading” impact of such a misdeed. As for the violations of human rights there is a deliberate attempt to make the borderland a picture of conditions that exists throughout every major metropolitan area in our country... Major cities struggle daily with police behaviors that are considered to be violations of civil rights or human rights with none of the attention given to illegal aliens taking a chance to flee their own atrocities and coming here to live and prosper without due regard for the country’s law to register, to document and to follow the rules of the land.

The members of President Obama’s administration, specifically the Director of Homeland Security set guidelines for federal law enforcement officials to conduct their jobs in those areas related to the areas of prosecution or deportation of illegal aliens in federal custody. It focuses on agency discretion on how to enforce and complete the agency’s mission and priorities that appears to make it clear to those reading this article that our government has laid down a foundation of rules that apparently gives aliens an option to escape the wrath of breaking immigration laws and in fact may result in a release without prosecution or deportation.

Reading the Tucson Citizen newspaper it read “On June 17, 2011 the Director of the Department of Homeland Security issued a stunning memorandum to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The memo in part read as follows: This memorandum provides U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel guidance on the exercise of prosecutorial discretion to ensure that the agency’s immigration enforcement resources are focused on the agency’s enforcement priorities. The memorandum also serves to make clear which agency employees may exercise prosecutorial discretion and what factors should be considered.” This direction appears to be directed to please those critics of the President in the area of immigration as pro-immigration advocates or supporters have be asking for some kind of relief on deportations and prosecution of illegal or undocumented aliens. As it was reported by the Tucson Citizen, “The memo issued by Morton addresses “Exercising Prosecutorial Discretion Consistent with the Priorities of the Agency for the Apprehension, Detention, and Removal of Aliens.”

Looking at its contents it includes the following: settling or dismissing a proceeding; granting deferred action, granting parole, or staying a final order of removal; agreeing to voluntary departure, the withdrawal of an application for admission, or other action in lieu of obtaining a formal order of removal; pursuing an appeal; executing a removal order; and responding to or joining in a motion to reopen removal proceedings and to consider joining in a motion to grant relief or a benefit.

Morton’s memo makes it clear that certain factors should be taken into consideration while excogitating prosecution of individuals in the United Stated unlawfully. The memo refers to the first set of these as positive factors. These individuals would essentially be given priority in expediting their cases for possible immediate release or deferral of arrest or prosecution. Calling these “positive factors they include: veterans and members of the U.S. armed forces; long-time lawful permanent residents; minors and elderly individuals; individuals present in the United States since childhood; pregnant or nursing women; victims of domestic violence; trafficking, or other serious crimes; individuals who suffer from a serious mental or physical disability; and individuals with serious health conditions. The third topic in this memo outlines conditions of release, deferrals of arrest or prosecution and is purely discretionary of the local officials in compliance with this memo. This set of rules applied include: the agency’s civil immigration enforcement priorities; the person’s length of presence in the United States, with particular consideration given to presence while in lawful status; the circumstances of the person’s arrival in the United States and the manner of his or her entry, particularly if the alien came to the United States as a young child; the person’s pursuit of education in the United States, with particular consideration given to those who have graduated from a U.S. high school or have successfully pursued or are pursuing a college or advanced degrees at a legitimate institution of higher education in the United States; whether the person, or the person’s immediate relative ,has served in the U.S. military, reserves, or national guard, with particular consideration given to those who served in combat; the person’s criminal history, including arrests, prior convictions, or outstanding arrest warrants; the person’s immigration history, including any prior removal, outstanding order of removal, prior denial of status, or evidence of fraud; whether the person poses a national security or public safety concern the person’s ties and contributions to the community, including family relationships; the person’s ties to the home country and condition~ in the country; the person’s age, with particular consideration given to minors and the elderly; whether the person has a U.S. citizen or permanent resident spouse, child, or parent; whether the person is the primary caretaker of a person with a mental or physical disability, minor, or seriously ill relative; ; whether the person or the person’s spouse is pregnant or nursing; whether the person or the person’s spouse suffers from severe mental or physical illness; whether the person’s nationality renders removal unlikely; Whether the person is likely to be granted temporary or permanent status or other relief from removal, including as a relative of a U.S. citizen or permanent resident; whether the person is likely to be granted temporary or permanent status or other relief from removal, including as an asylum seeker, or a victim of domestic violence, human trafficking, or other crime and. whether the person is currently cooperating or has cooperated with federal, state or local law enforcement authorities, such as ICE, the U.S Attorneys or Department of Justice, the Department of Labor, or National Labor Relations Board, among others. In conclusion the Tucson Citizen writes “It’s clear that Morton’s memo was a directive from the White House to Janet Napolitano the Secretary of Homeland Security, and was meant as a form of relief for what many see as an unjust prosecution of young adults who were brought to the U.S. as children by their parents.”

In conclusion, it is not the mannerisms or the behaviors of border patrol agents that is in question but rather, where does the federal government stand on its policy of border security, residential conditions, and whether or not prosecution is a viable tool for agents to use and arrest, detain and release illegal immigrants who continue to take chances along the borderland to come into this country without papers. Increasingly they risk their own lives in the process as knowingly and purposely violating this country’s immigration laws and putting our border patrol agents at risk because along with those who come here for peaceful and domestic purposes [and still in violation of our laws] we have a dangerous mix of drug smugglers, human smugglers, cartel assassins, cartel bandits and other outlaws that rape and prey on unarmed people crossing the border illegally and subject to apprehension according to our own laws.

Perhaps it is easier to look the other way and let them come in as the administration appears to be using this mixed strategy to filter the effectiveness of border security and order. Regardless, the influx of people crossing is based on two principles that have encouraged this behavior. The first is the appalling human rights violations that are occurring south of the border with no end in sight and the second is the “handcuffing” of border agents in doing their jobs encouraging many to take the chance and cross over. The message is compounded by the fact that there are legal groups that advocate and pursue active litigation against the United States agents to allege violations of human rights because they were caught and arrested by those charged with the responsibility to do so under law but who are themselves being targeted to be punished for doing their jobs.

In the big picture, a view many rarely see or want to see, when you put all those efforts to enforce our immigration laws that are on the books in perspective and find corruptive measures that defeat the purpose of such laws, there clearly no winners and many losers. Indirectly, perhaps the civil rights and human rights of those who live and work here lawfully are the ones victimized here and the government has done nothing to protect them from this woefully inflicted harm that is ruining our country.

Source:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-carlos-frey/flagrant-human-rights-vio_b_885618.html


http://tucsoncitizen.com/arizona-unapologetic-liberal/2011/06/22/department-of-homeland-security-prosecutorial-discretion-memo-affords-undocumented-immigrants-an-escape-valve/

Prison Labor – Chain Gang – Agra pickers - Call Centers

Out-sourcing with government protections - Not saying its wrong... just sayin......


Fox News reported “The only female chain gang in the world was out Wednesday morning with a message: drink and drive and you could be joining the chain gang. You can't miss this crew cleaning up trash in a field in Phoenix, wearing black and white striped jail garb and sporting "Clean(ing) and Sober" pink shirts.” Such a comment in Phoenix newspapers and television stations don’t draw much attention any longer since the practice of women on chain gangs was implemented by Sheriff Joe Arpaio who uses this chain gang for his own publicity as he “runs the only all-female chain gang in history.”

The concept of using prison labor in Maricopa County is not new and under Sheriff Joe, he has capitalized his own workforce using prison [jail] labor to supplement his basic services within the huge jail complex and also serving the 3 million people of Phoenix and surrounding communities in the county. Sheriff Joe, bragging about reducing his daily costs once said that “I got meal costs down to 40 cents a day per inmate. It costs $1.15 a day to feed the department's dogs. Now, I'm cutting prisoners' calories from 3,000 to 2,500 a day.” In the meantime, he continues his publicity stunts by parading this female chain gang on the streets of Phoenix while bragging that his jail tenants must pay $10 every time they need to see a nurse. They wear pink underwear and black and white striped uniforms. Many inmates live in tents under the blazing Arizona sun in temperatures during summer where the temperature has already exceeded 114 degrees Fahrenheit. Even in mid-October, it was over 100 degrees.

Many early mornings, women assembled for chain gang duty. They were padlocked together by the ankle, five to each chain, and marched military style out to a van that transported them to their work site -- a county cemetery half an hour out of the city in the desert. These women pick up litter, grab the weeds and bury those who died [indigents] on the streets or in the hospitals that have no family or next to kin claiming their bodies. Sheriff Joe said "It's free labor and it's undignified. How is this helping to rehabilitate anyone?" he said.

For Arizona female prisoners, the story is much the same as they are transported out to the farms where they work. In an article written by the Huffington Post, they write “For the past 20 years, Wal-Mart has fed its stores with agricultural produce from a company called Martori Farms. According to Hoover's profile of the company, Martori is "a fruit and vegetable grower, packer, shipper, and wholesaler and is the largest commercial agricultural company in Arizona The agra business was "hand-picked" by Wal-Mart, and in 2007, the giant retailer showcased Martori Farms as part of its "Salute To America's Farmers" program. The Martori farm operations took seed in the 1930s Arizona soil, later specializing in melons and broccoli. The company today has 3 major locations in Arizona, and one site in California. One of its holdings contains more than 15,000 acres of farmland. Wal-Mart has described its relationship with Martori Farms as an example of "fruitful collaboration." The retailer's first 35 superstores were stocked with organic cantaloupes from Martori Farms. "Our relationship with Martori Farms is an excellent example of the kind of collaboration we strive for with our suppliers," a Wal-Mart spokesman said four years ago. "Wal-Mart buys more United States agricultural products than any other retailer in the world and we're proud to salute American farmers like Martori Farms."

But new allegations about the use of prison labor at the Scottsdale, Arizona-based Martori Farms could blight the fruitful relationship between the retailer and the farmer. For almost 20 years, Wal-Mart has had a clear policy forbidding the use of prison labor by its vendors. "Since 1992 Wal-Mart has required its supplier-partners to comply with a stringent code of conduct," Wal-Mart said in a 1997 press statement. "This code requires factories producing merchandise for Wal-Mart to be automatically denied manufacturing certification if inspections reveal...evidence of forced or prison labor." The Arizona Department of Corrections (ADC) has supplied prisoner labor for private agricultural businesses for almost 20 years. For at least the last four years, the state of Arizona has fined employers who knowingly hire undocumented workers. Farmers responded by calling up the ADC for workers. "We are contacted almost daily by different companies needing labor," the manager of the business development unit of Arizona Correctional Industries (ACI) told the Christian Science Monitor in 2007. "Maybe it was labor that was undocumented before, and they don't want to take the risk anymore because of possible consequences, so they are looking to inmate labor as a possible alternative.

According to jail officials “Inmates volunteer for the chain gang, but not because they like the work. It’s because many already know that it is much more uncomfortable and hotter in the tents than it is outside. The Sheriff says he's doing the women a favor.” It’s only 113 today. In the tents - 138 yesterday, so they are cooling off by being here," he said.

Fox News reports that “Arpaio plans to put the chain gangs out in force for the MLB All-Star weekend. They will also be reminding baseball fans about drinking and driving. The women all volunteered for chain gang duty to get out of lock-down, where four prisoners are shut in a cell 8 by 12 square feet 23 hours a day. If they spend 30 days on the chain gang, picking up trash, weeding or burying bodies, they can get out of the punishment cells and back to the tents. "The intent is humiliation of the inmates and political grandstanding for the public. It makes the sheriff look tough and that's all it does," said Marc Mauer of the Sentencing Project, a Washington think-tank which promotes reduced reliance on incarceration in the justice system. Jamie Fellner of Human Rights Watch said Arpaio was clearly unfamiliar with or did not care about international treaties that set human rights standards binding on all U.S. officials. "These laws prohibit cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment, yet Arpaio takes great pride in subjecting prisoners to degrading treatment," she said.

Not a very well kept secret as the world uses prison labor for almost every conceivable task one can imagine, the United States has captured the lead in this labor force as it currently houses 25 % of the world’s incarcerated population. Since the concept of outsourcing has become an acceptable method of bolstering the workforce since 1999, the United States has employed prisoners for low cost alternative workforces to offset cost and overhead while taking away those jobs form those citizens who are currently unemployment and seeking hard to find a job to bring home a paycheck for their families. Although the argument could hold water, the fact remains that prison labor will work for almost nothing and as little as 50 cents an hour, these prisoners are just a small portion of the labor force that resembles slavery in some areas.

Beginning in 2002, the prison work force was expanded from out in the fields picking vegetables and farming produce to the cleaner more sophisticated telephone call centers that thrive around the country staffed with convicted felons talking to you or your family members and asking them questions about your lifestyle and your spending habits. Using acronyms to avoid instant detection these prison run firms are spread nationwide and are picking up contracts from manufacturers who have no conscience in the use of prison labor although some, like Wal-Mart, say that they are prohibiting contracts with prison labor firms but in reality looking the other way to save money and make profits. In 2003, Dell (DELL) “ended its contract with UNICOR for hardware recycling services amidst an onslaught of objections to the contract. Some critics expressed concerns that convicts handling toxic waste were not protected by OSHA and EPA safety standards. Others complained that employing prisoners hurt the private recycling industry. The PC maker said it transferred the work to private vendors for business reasons and not in response to protests from special interest groups.”

Two such acronyms are the FPI and the ACI vendors that apply business tactics with prison labor. The FPI, a federal arm of the government prison system was created in 1934 by President F. D. Roosevelt to make goods for the federal bureaucracies only and it wasn’t until 1999 that legislation passed this ability to sell to private vendors or corporations as this practice has now expanded throughout the country. The ACI, Arizona Correctional Industries is a private vendor created under the state’s regulatory system that hires prison labor and contracts with industrial manufacturers, agricultural growers and other sorts to sell prison made goods to the private businesses claiming extravagant savings and low overhead. ACI has some distinct advantages over other businesses as they don’t have to worry about OSHA or many other labor standards as they are exempted from specific rules and inspections.

Sources:

http://www.myfoxphoenix.com/dpp/morning_show/arpaio-sends-out-the-female-chain-gang-06292011

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/al-norman/i-aint-gonna-work-on-mart_b_886596.html?view=print

http://www.cio.com/article/595304/Prison_Labor_Outsourcing_s_Best_Kept_Secret_?page=2&taxonomyId=3195

Solitary Confinement for Border Patrol Agent Jesus Diaz is unsafe

As published in the New American "Former Border Patrol agent Jesus Diaz was denied bond at a hearing earlier this month, but in an interview with Liberty News Network national correspondent Andy Ramirez, members of the Diaz family spoke out. Agent Diaz was prosecuted and jailed after the Mexican government filed a complaint alleging that he pulled on the handcuffs of a suspected illegal-immigrant drug smuggler. Two oversight agencies cleared him of wrongdoing, but the U.S. Department of Justice decided to take on the case anyway. U.S. District Court judge Alia Ludlum refused the request of Diaz to be let out on bond prior to sentencing. His wife, Diana (picture, above), who still works for the Border Patrol, said judge Ludlum denied the motion because, according to the court, her husband is a "danger to the community." The denial of bail in this case is best described as another travesty of justice as the government has willfully chosen to put former agent Diaz at a higher risk for personal harm and serious injuries including death. In fact, his actions put the lives and welfare of those correctional officers escorting and supervising his movement and confinement at high risk as well. Understanding the inherent duties and responsibilities of these officers, it goes to say that the presence of Jesus Diaz inside their prison makes it the sole responsibility of the prison administration to ensure that all security procedures are followed as written and trained. Failing to understand the judge's reluctance to allow bail for the offense accused, it makes his innocence even more important so that he can be removed from this dreadful and potentially dangerous situation immediately.

Reading an article written back in 2007 when convicted Border Patrol Agent Ignacio Ramos was incarcerated for a crime that lacks for a better word "the corruptive nature and credibility of our criminal justice system" it is with urgent manners I urge the Congressional representatives of the state of Texas to closely get involved and examine the conditions of confinement of former agent Jesus Diaz. Not surprised by the brutal beating former agent Ramos took from 5 other inmates [while in general population], I advocate for someone be aware of the inherent threats, dangers and possibilities that exist currently. Diaz is sitting inside an isolated prison cell awaiting a sentencing sometime in the Fall that could get him up to 35 years in prison. He is a sitting target for other prisoners to harm him as he has been restricted in movement and privileges. Being a target to victimize or harm can happen to former agent Diaz in solitary confinement. Something that the prosecutors never think of when they railroad someone to prison is what happens to them after they are convicted, sentenced and then housed according to their risk factors and special needs. Realizing that every man incarcerated has a right to an appeal, it would behoove the prison officials to take every precaution possible to protect Diaz. Thinking that this agent is safe inside a secure cell 23/7 it is with practical experience that I warn prison officials keeping Diaz out of harm's way of the many challenges they will have the longer the agent is kept at their facility.
Every moment he is there, someone, not important who but somebody will take the risk to "take out" a former cop to earn his status inside the prisons as a bad ass and reap the benefits becoming of such a title. There are many ways of harming Jesus Diaz as most that I discuss have already been attempted either successfully or unsuccessfully but resulting in serious injuries non-the-less. The first threat are those who are housed nearby him as he does leave his cell for one hour to shower or rec or both if time allows it.

During this time, Diaz must cross the path of many sociopaths and other dangerous individuals who can fabricate inside their cell, weapons that can inflict both pain and serious injuries by the method delivered or fabricated. Lethal darts can be fabricated out of staples, out of paper and out of small pieces of metal that can be delivered with pin point accuracy for the eyes or head to inflict serious wounds. Spears made up of rolled up newspapers or magazines can be launched with great accuracy and then there are the slingshots made of the rubber inside their shorts that can launch a projectile into the direction of Diaz without notice. Battery casings are often used for the metal tip of the dart and spears. Compacted and round in shape, they can resemble little pellets out of a spring loaded barrel and hit their target with great velocity to inflict harm. Although staff may be wearing face shields and other safety equipment, Jesus Diaz will wear none to protect himself from foreign objects being launched at him.
Being escorted restrained and shackled to the point of being immobilized, he is susceptible of being assaulted by others who make and take the opportunity to harm him just because he is a former lawman. Taken to and from the visitation area has its hazards. Officers, often working shorthanded take shortcuts to get it done. Working on the principle of moving one inmate at a time to avoid coincidental contact, exceptions are often made to speed things up inside these prisons and staff take chances of compromising their own policies to get things done quicker thus allowing those opportunist to plan and plot harming Diaz.

The ingestion of chemicals can make him seriously sick and the food is not always under supervision as it is traditionally tampered with and prepared by other inmates who know the delivery practice better than the officers who make the deliveries out of these food carts. Just like the delivery of drugs are made into the isolation cells via laundry, visitation, enhanced with poor search procedures, a mistake can easily turn into a nightmare for officers who work there and must maintain a vigilance to observe all rules and be due diligent in their performance. The ever presence of MERSA or other staph related bacteria can make a person severely ill and without the proper medical care, his condition can be elevated by the mere negligence of treatment or in most cases, the failure to diagnose the problem when reported to medical staff.

For the sake of keeping former agent Jesus Diaz protected and free from harm while inside a prison cell, those who control his fate and his safety must exercise extreme caution when he is taken to and from his cell. He must be assigned an officer and a supervisor to ensure policies are followed to the letter. His food must be inspected and those cells adjacent or in proximity of his cell must be searched often for dangerous contraband. Flammable items must be restricted and an awareness of probability of harm should exist among staff as well as how he is treated inside his cell as the environment he lives in right now is a most unstable environment that can be easily disrupted with the right distraction that allows an opportune moment for someone that has evil on his mind and take out another person who worked hard to serve his country and was failed by his own government to keep him safe.

Source:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/8012-jailed-border-agent-jesus-diaz-denied-bond-family-speaks-out