Immigration and civil rights activists in the Rio Grande Valley say the policies and regulations need to be changed. Vela said he has received an apology from local officials as well as Border Patrol Chief Gustavo De La Vina, a Valley native who now runs the border police from Washington. We both agreed it is an incident that deserves attention and can be resolved simply by the education of Border Patrol officers. To get the message across, Vela has been asked to address a law enforcement seminar in San Diego in November, which hundreds of Border Patrol regional officials and supervisors will attend. But the judge's roadside stops have already caused Border Patrol officials to schedule new training.
Nobody's exempt from that.