Christmas Stolen from Ramos and Compean
Tancredo blasts Conferees for keeping Border Agents imprisoned for the Christmas season

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representative Tom Tancredo (R-Littleton) today blasted Democrats after a Congressional panel stripped language from the Omnibus Appropriations bill that sought to reverse the unjust conviction of two border patrol agents and release them from federal custody.

Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were wrongfully imprisoned in 2006 for shooting a drug smuggler in the buttocks as he fled a truck filled with over 700 pounds of marijuana. They are serving 11 and 12 years, respectively. Tancredo’s language would have prevented the expenditure of any federal funds to carry out the sentences imposed on the two men, effectively freeing them from federal custody.

The House of Representatives passed this amendment overwhelmingly – but unfortunately the open borders crowd and their Democrat friends on Capitol Hill decided to play the Grinch this Christmas and stripped it from this bill,â€