[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 11]
[House]
[Page 15303]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        NOE ALEMAN--BORDER AGENT

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Madam Speaker, Noe Aleman is a 12-year veteran of the U.S. 
Border Patrol in the El Paso sector. He and his wife, Isbell, who have 
no children of their own, plan to adopt his wife's three fatherless 
nieces from Mexico.
  They hired a U.S. immigration lawyer and paid him $40,000 to help 
with the process. The girls were given temporary visas, but when they 
expired after 6 months, Agent Aleman went to the immigration service to 
find out why.
  Aleman was arrested for harboring illegals and making false reports 
on the application. Apparently the lawyer listed the girls as adults 
instead of minors. In any event, Aleman was prosecuted and convicted. 
The girls were arrested and deported back to Mexico and live in an 
orphanage where they have been for 2 years.
  Today, Aleman went to a Federal penitentiary. And yes, he was 
prosecuted by the same U.S. Attorney's Office, the same judge heard the 
case as the Ramos and Compean cases.
  Unfortunately, every time a border agent is prosecuted in the Western 
District of Texas, the U.S. Attorney's Office has a credibility 
problem; and this case is automatically suspect and suspicious.
  And that's just the way it is.

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