Ted Poe: “before I came to Congress, I had a career in public service in Texas, first as a prosecutor for 8 years. I was a chief…”

“before I came to Congress, I had a career in public service in Texas, first as a prosecutor for 8 years. I was a chief felony prosecutor and tried felony cases in Houston, Texas. And then I assumed the bench for 22 years and tried felony criminal cases and heard over 25,000 felony cases. And I say that to say during that time, both as a prosecutor and as a judge, I heard cases where peace officers were the victims of crime and I heard cases where peace officers were accused of criminal conduct against other individuals, people they had arrested. And I want to talk about a situation that has occurred down to the Texas-Mexico border involving a Border Patrol agent by the name of David Sipes. David Sipes was a Border Patrol agent patrolling the south Texas area, and he came in contact with a coyote. A coyote is a phrase we use in the vernacular for a person who is a smuggler of human beings into the United States. He makes money off of the plight of people who want to be in the United States for economic reasons. David Sipes arrested a coyote by the name of Jose Guevara, who resisted arrest.”