[Congressional Record Volume 153, Number 75 (Tuesday, May 8, 2007)]
[House]
[Pages H4560-H4561]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    BORDER AGENTS NO-CONFIDENCE VOTE

  (Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAM JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, did you know that the Nation's 
border agents have no confidence in their top chief? These men and 
women are on the front lines of illegal immigration. They want, need, 
and deserve strong leadership.
  Recently, the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing 
the country's 11,000 nonsupervisory border agents, announced it had 
cast a unanimous no-confidence vote in U.S. Border

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Patrol Chief David Aguilar. The vote comes as two border agents sit in 
jail for doing their jobs, combating illegal immigration.
  If you are as outraged as I am about the unjust persecution of law 
enforcement agents, go to pardontheagents.com and sign an on-line 
petition urging President Bush to pardon Agents Ramos and Compean.

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