Border Patrol Whistlerblower Will Resign


	Border Patrol Whistlerblower Will Resign

zizzy

11-10-2007 2:30 AM

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immigration, torture, racism, border patrol, whistleblower, bush administration

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d9d8b4ba-4ad0-4617-b4c1-93c3ef45e624/A7EECBDD-E314-4D89-99F5-FF87EF366B61/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.reappropriate.com/?p=851" href="http://www.reappropriate.com/?p=851" style="font-size: 11px;">www.reappropriate.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.reappropriate.com/?p=851">This past weekend, <A href="http://www.reappropriate.com/?p=843" target="_blank">I interviewed Ephraim Cruz, a U.S. Border Patrol Agent who blew the whistle on continuing mistreatment and abuse of detainees at the Douglas Border Patrol Station at the U.S.-Mexico Border</A>. Ephraim reported to his superiors and later to Congressmen and Senators instances of policy violations that he witnessed including starvation and placing of a detainee in a “stress position”.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.reappropriate.com/?p=851">After blowing the whistle, Ephraim is being forced to resign or face termination of his employment as a BPA.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.reappropriate.com/?p=851"><DIV>Dear family, friends, and fellow community members:</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.reappropriate.com/?p=851"><DIV>
What started out for me as an inherent duty to report Border Patrol practices which did not compliment their written polcies on March 7, 2004, became an almost four year campaign to remedy institutional abuses, even against me immediately upon my reporting them.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.reappropriate.com/?p=851"><DIV>
However, the time has now come to forefeit this cause by circumstance not choice.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.reappropriate.com/?p=851"><DIV>
Sincerely,</DIV>
 
Ephraim Cruz
Senior Patrol Agent (D137)</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A7EECBDD-E314-4D89-99F5-FF87EF366B61/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>