Anyone find this surprising?

A top executive with the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps says he’s pleased that a former Border Patrol agent is now free after it was learned that prosecutors had given an illegal immigrant various incentives to testify against the agent.

David Sipe was convicted in 2001 for using excessive force in the arrest of a Mexican national in 2000. But the conviction has since been reversed after an appeals court ordered a retrial, saying the illegal alien had been given a “get-out-of-jail-free card,” a Social Security number, and cash incentives to testify against Sipe.

Al Garza, national executive director of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, says he finds it “totally bizarre” that a court would find the testimony of an illegal immigrant more credible than that of a law enforcement officer. He is hopeful that Sipe’s acquittal will be a good sign for two other former Border Patrol agents, convicted in a similar case.

Those agents remain in federal custody — Jose Alonso Compean, sentenced to12 years in prison, and Ignacio Ramos, 11 years — after being convicted of failing to file proper documentation in the shooting of an illegal alien drug trafficker they were chasing. Garza contends Compean and Ramos were just “doing their job.”

UPDATE:  A few links regarding undocumented workers,  issuing credit cards to undocumented workers, and upcoming marching on the Pentagon. More may be added as I run across them.