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Shooting case has border agents on edge: Morale slides, says union, in wake of prison time for two agents who used deadly force.

Date: June 5, 2007
Author: Daniel Gilbert
QUOTE: At the center of the storm over use of force are two border patrol agents in west Texas who, in January, began serving prison time for shooting and wounding a drug smuggler as he fled toward Mexico and then covering up evidence...But for field agents, the case goes deeper, chilling both their willingness to use deadly force and their morale, says T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union that represents 11,000 nonsupervisory personnel at the agency.

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