Border Patrol Ordered to Release Soaking Wet Illegals:  The chief of the Border Patrol labor union said in testimony to Congress last week that agents have been ordered to release dripping-wet illegal immigrants at the Rio Grande unless they "physically saw them cross the river."  Stephen Dinan of the Washington Times reports that National Border Patrol Council president Brandon Judd told the House Judiciary Committee that the policy "de facto creates an open border with Mexico for any illegal alien who wants to claim they were here before 2014."  The Jan. 1, 2014 cutoff, and the verbal orders to let illegals go unless seen climbing out of the river, came as part of President Obama's enforcement priorities he set up in November of that year, which ended up shielding most illegal immigrants from deportation.  Judd says that illegal immigrants have now learned to game the system by claiming to have arrived prior to 2014, and agents have been to told to take their word for it.

OH Officer Critically Injured After Shooting:  An Ohio police officer is in critical condition Monday after being shot while serving a warrant to an accused arsonist early Sunday.  Fox News reports that 44-year-old gunman Lincoln Rutledge, wanted in connection with a Saturday home fire, opened fire on SWAT officers who were serving a felony arrest warrant, striking the unarmed officer.  A four-hour standoff ensued but ended with the gunman's arrest.  No other officers were injured.  Rutledge is now facing attempted murder charges for the shooting of a police officer.  The Columbus Police Officer is described as a well-liked and respected veteran, though no other details have been released.

Va. Gov. Amends Death Penalty Bill:  Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced an amendment to a bill Monday that would allow the Department of Corrections to secretly make lethal injection drugs through a pharmacy, rather than resort to use of the electric chair for executions.  Gary A. Harki and Patrick Wilson of the Virginian-Pilot report that the amended bill would permit the drugs used in executions to be made by compounding pharmacies, a process that "shall be confidential, shall be exempt from the Freedom of Information Act ... and shall not be subject to discovery or introduction as evidence in any civil proceeding unless good cause is shown."  McAuliffe, a death penalty supporter, objects to the use of the electric chair for executions but also opposes a moratorium on the death penalty in the state.  He is urging Republicans who control the General Assembly to accept the amendment or else he will veto the bill, which will halt capital punishment in the state.  Lawmakers will decide April 20 whether to accept the amendment.