Border agent reinstated with back pay in retrial

A former U.S. Border Patrol agent, whose conviction in federal court for using excessive force during the arrest of an illegal alien was overturned because of prosecutorial misconduct, has been ordered reinstated with full back pay. The District-based Merit Systems Protection Board ordered that Agent David J. Sipe, 35, of Bethany, Okla., be returned to full duty following his acquittal on all charges during a court-ordered retrial in January.

What was behind all this…once again, prosecutorial misconduct:

Mr. Sipe won a new trial after disclosures that an illegal alien received a “get out of jail free card” plus U.S. legal documents and monetary compensation from federal prosecutors in exchange for his testimony against the agent, accused of using excessive force during the 2000 arrest of Mexican national Jose Guevara.

A federal appeals court in Texas ordered the new trial, saying prosecutors gave Mr. Guevara and two other illegal aliens additional inducements not disclosed at the time for their testimony, including Social Security cards, witness fees, permits allowing travel to and from Mexico, living expenses and free use of government phones.

We’ve got to stop abusing our Border Patrol agensts this way if we are ever going to reclaim our border sovereignty.