It's the Justice Departments job to arbitrarily ruin as many lives as possible.

That's all it has ever done.

And it's good at it.

I just read this post out loud. Justice Department. Christ, it sounds like some creepy Orwellian nightmare. To think that "justice" is decided upon, ruled on and dished out by some bureaucracy that is but a part of a multitude of bureaucracies and so many people are just okay with this. I think I'm going to vomit.

yea I disagree with this

If I do something, I'm expected to pay. . . if my wife does something, she's expected to pay
We do share our money. . her money is mine and mine is hers but I wouldn't expect her to pay or help pay any fines if I were jailed

I wouldn't disallow her to do so but IMO it shouldn't be court mandated. . .that's ridiculous!!

He has no rights as an illegal alien in the process of smuggling drugs.

We can grant him any either. We can assume for the most part he would be treated the same.

Well, the next time we all read about corrupt border agents or the lack of any effective control and enforcement along the Mexican border, we need not wonder beyond this story and a similar one a few years back with Agents Ramos and Compean.

When their own agency and government will prosecute and jail them over how they physically restrain a suspect or how an armed drug smuggler is handled on the border (when no one in either case even sustained serious injuries), who can expect the U.S. to have very good people working down there?

Who in their right mind would suddenly get up with the fire of applying to the Border Patrol or ICE when these headlines remind you what happens if a situation gets even a little out of hand, and politics aren't blowing the right direction at the time.

Isn't it funny how border patrol agents can go to prison, of all places for a federal agent to end up...on chicken stuff like this, yet Oakland cops can fire non-lethal ammunition right into someone's face and still not have any decent and coherent answers as to what happened that night, let alone talk of prosecuting anyone for anything. Yup..It's all about politics.

I feel for this agent and his family. What a fate for a man who was doing what society paid him for and told him to do. ....and then bill the family for it. I thought it was only in China where the family was billed for the cost of the bullet?

You guys will cry foul over everything. You know all those perks you get when you're married -- guess what? There are drawbacks too.

When you are married, unless you specifically file separate income tax returns you are liable for your spouses' debt -- she/he is also entitled to half the money in the bank, income, house, etc.

Look at this way -
Your spouse goes to jail and is ordered to pay restitution amounting to $50K.
She's locked up with zero income.

Should she not have to pay?
Should the jewelry store have to wait until she gets out (if she gets out)?
What if she has more than $250K in a savings account with her spouse? What then?

This is a non-story IMO.

So the FBI can give guns to cartel members just to "see where they go" and they end up killing innocent people on both sides of the border. The FBI's handlers can have knowledge of this and say they don't have knowledge, but when it is proven they did have knowledge, they say they thought we were talking about some other gun running scheme and were confused. Meanwhile people are still being shot and the cartels grow more powerful, but that is just an oversight, not a crime....

Then you have a guy who may or may not have used excessive force (I don't know the entire story) and after he is sentenced and is being punished for said crime, they decide to make his family pay legalized extortion. How is this justice? Why dump all this money into prosecuting this guy who was trying to uphold the law, even if he was miguided in his attempt, while ignoring the cartels and even supplying more weapons to the real problem?

It seems these investigatons are always aimed in the wrong direction.

I guess if you're a member of the border patrol, the law does not apply to you? The man violated the law and got arrested and fined, I doubt anything will happen to his family if they don't pay the fine.