U.S. border agent jailed for improper arrest of suspected drug smuggler. “A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been sentenced to two years in prison for improperly lifting the arms of a suspected 15-year-old drug smuggler while handcuffed — in what the Justice Department called a deprivation of the teenager’s constitutional right to be free from the use of unreasonable force.” Just when you think things at the border can’t get any worse the government sinks to another low.
