Visitor publish by Joe Hoft at JoeHoft.com – republished with permission

Three years in the past on Christmas of 2020, President Trump pardoned Gary Brugman who was punished for safeguarding his nation.

The native Texas Tribune reported on the pardon.

President Donald J. Trump announced 26 new pardons Wednesday, together with one for Gary Brugman, a former U.S. Border Patrol agent who was despatched to jail for almost two years for violating the civil rights of a person making an attempt to cross the U.S. border into Texas.

U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz and John Cornyn of Texas, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and a slate of Republican congressional members had been among the many public figures who supported Brugman’s clemency, in keeping with a press release from the White Home press secretary.

Brugman’s case drew nationwide consideration amongst conservative figures who hailed him for working to safe the U.S. border. Court documents present that in January 2001, Brugman and a companion responded to a sensor alert in a pecan orchard close to the border, the place they noticed “a group of approximately ten individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally.”

Brugman chased them on foot after they tried to run. After one other officer caught up with the group, he ordered the lads to take a seat on the ground…

…Brugman was convicted in 2002 and spent greater than two years in a federal jail. He’s repeatedly defended his actions and stated not all the males captured had been cooperating.

“I ran up to the aliens and with the bottom of my foot I pushed the first alien to the ground … and told him to sit down as I said ‘sientense,’” Brugman wrote in a weblog about his encounter, in keeping with Fox News. “I then turned to a second alien and pushed him to the ground too.”

Brugman served within the Coast Guard for eight years and as a Border Patrol agent for 4, the discharge from the White Home stated.