The idiots here are the people who let this CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN go free. I, unlike these SHEEP, am able call this CRIMINAL just what he is. . . a CRIMINAL and I don't care if it is "HUMILIATING" to the CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIEN DRUG TRAFFICKER. I Call a Spad a Spad. Let this CRIMINAL represent the country that he "loves" so much by posing with his flag. Mr. Cutler and Professor Deborah Weissman do you all want to get some of his cocaine for yourselves? Is that why you want him to go free so badly? He can leave his stash with you two to watch over it? Hmmmmmm. . . OK!

The wonderful/lousy thing about this country, is that everyone has rights, no matter how minimal or horrendous the crime may be. Everyone is innocent until proven otherwise, and must be treated with respect, and courtesy. Would it be ok to humiliate an undocumented European by having that person where their cultural attire at the time of booking, or would that only apply to our neighbors down south? This is where Mr. Villavaso's case turned racial. Was release deal the best choice? Maybe not... But let's stick to the real issue in this report, people.

Go to Mexicoo and put on a Uncle Sam outfit you might be lucky if you come out alive.

There is no excuse for what they (Illegal's) can get away with.

The DEA agent who did this dropped the ball, plain and simple. The [alleged] coke dealer could have been convicted and jailed, or sent back south. But no, someone at the DEA had to be stupid and make a comedy out of it.

rbar is right on point...

"But no, someone at the DEA had to be stupid and make a comedy out of it.
rbar is right on point..."

No, you and 'rbar' are not 'right on point'. The POINT is that a smuggler of death and family destruction walked away without being punished. Having somebody mistreat him racially does not give him a license to destroy our society.Your attitude is one of the main reasons America has never been able to get a handle on it's utterly horrendous drug problem. You worry as much or more about the criminal as you do about the victims. The DEA agent ought to have been fired and the smuggler's trial should have proceeded. You probably don't even realize that the liberal attitudes you take as normal are a recent historical creation. America never used to allow criminals to pervert justice. This started in the 1970s (as any older observer will tell you)and the country has suffered badly because of it ever since.

now THAT is funny

Where in the article does it say he's "illegal." Don't forget Pilgrims you Euro Americans aren't from these parts....

Wow! I can not believe the unfound hatred and ignorance of the majority of the bloggers to this article. Your ignorance and inability to read an article and sense of justice are misplaced with prejudice and stupidity. All of you cite the guy as an Illegal, no where was it mentioned, but, all of you are so quick to assume "Illegal" only because it says he was Mexican-born. Perhaps he was a naturalized citizen? Had valid Visa and Green Card? What a bunch of idoits. But obviously he is guilty because of the obvious evidence (1) he is mexican-born and (2) was charged by someone almost as ignorant as most of the bloggers here. As for the case being dismissed, that is clearly the error of the DEA agent whose ignorance led him to do something so stupid.

ditto Christopher X...and where is my first post???

Posted by: Aaron C: "Where in the article does it say he's "illegal." Don't forget Pilgrims you Euro Americans aren't from these parts...."

Wrong, Aaron. I was born here in the United States. THAT makes me a native. Not some absurd claim that somebodies ancestors once owned what is now the US. Every geographical area on earth has changed hands due to war, immigration, natural events and many other reasons. That doesn't give any person the right to claim a place because their ancestors once owned it. Using that kind of childish thinking, I ought to be able to lay claim to large parts of Europe. But I can't because I'm not European. And I'm not a "Euro American". I'm an American - one of the the only kind of American that exists - native born or naturalized. Everyone else is foreign.

Don't believe you even know me, or where I'm from, Aaron C. When your own president is a known drug and alcohol abuser, what do you expect is doing to happen to DRUG TRAFFICKERS??????? Duhhhhhh!

Let's get real here this was planned. I do not believe anyone could be that STUPID. I suggest an investigation of this clown's bank account...if he is that stupid he made a big deposit recently.

I'm guessing that the people who believe this is good also despise America for believing that people are INNOCENT until PROVEN guilty.

This fellow was never proven guilty. He was innocent when this picture was taken to humiliate him. Where does THAT fit into an American's idea of justice?

When we can't even get along with our next door neighbors, it's says something pretty sad about the direction of this once-great nation.

I wonder why it doesnt say illegal! HMMMMMM could it be because our media is told not to. Remember when it was called illegal immigration. Now its just immigration. My family are immigrants who came in legally. They had to learn english, pay taxes. There was no free ride. This is the same generation that won the 2nd world war

First off how can people be such hipocryts when yet if they were being treated the way this man was, to were their rights were being ignored, Hummiliated, yet did it say he ever really admitted to dealing drugs! See no one really knows all details to what really happend!! There is alot not being said! Like for instance, how they tricked him into signing apaper saying he would be released but yet he never seen a judge, or how the paper he signed actually was a trick to say he was dealing drugs! He is a mexican man with a family, and yet in North Carolina they are so prejedice! That in their own system which they are meant to serve Justice!How could they be so dumb to put their career on the line for one man who happend to be from Mexico, N at that wasnt even given the chance to go to Trial.HE SAT IN JAIL FOR 2 WHOLE YEARS, AWAY FROM HIS PERSONAL LIFE, and for this whole scandal to be focused on that he was mexican is down right wrong? So what if he was WHITE?? OR OF OTHER PREFFERED RACE? Would it be such a big DEAL?? So to me GOOD THING HE WAS SET FREE!! Because he is innocent till proven guilty so in my eyes those 2 years that he sat there and NEVER EVEN GOT CLOSE TO A TRIAL, SHOWS THAT THE DEA was more FOCUSED ON Catching anyone who they could minipulate into a seeming like a criminal, Rather than evidence that they couldnt even hold against JORGE HERNANDEZ- VILLALVAZO. AND thats half of why he got out!! SO to the ignorant people who didnt know as much as i just told, Do u really beleive that he was a drug dealer, and that he deserved to sit in jail for 2 years with out ever seeing a judge?? Who knows how many other ppl sit in his same situation??