Thread: Time is Running Out for Pres. to Free Border Agents

Time is Running Out for President to Free Border Agents
Posted by Bobby Eberle
November 11, 2008 at 7:28 am


With a little over two months left in office, President Bush has the opportunity to right an incredible injustice. He has the constitutional power to pardon former Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. Unlike President Clinton in his last days in office, who used pardons as political pay-back, President Bush should step forward and grant freedom to these agents who were doing their job protecting America.

For those how haven't followed this case, Agents Ramos and Compean shot an illegal alien as he was fleeing back to the Mexican border. The illegal alien, Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, was in the process of smuggling approximately a million dollars worth of marijuana into the U.S. What happened next has set the stage for President Bush to take action in his closing days as president.

Rather than being commended for protecting America's borders, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton decided to prosecute the agents. Sutton granted Davila immunity in exchange for testimony. Sutton said the agents "shot 15 times at an unarmed, fleeing man." Sutton also claims that the agents "decided to lie about it, cover it up, destroy the evidence, pick up all the shell casings and throw them away where we couldn't find them, destroy the crime scene and then file a false report."

In a statement issued in January, 2007, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) said that it was "irresponsible" to punish Agents Ramos and Compean with jail time.

"The Border Patrol is America's first line of defense against the constant and unrelenting efforts of drug and human smugglers to illegally enter the United States," said Congressman Hunter. "Agents Compean and Ramos fulfilled their responsibilities as Border Patrol agents and rightfully pursued a suspected and fleeing drug smuggler. It is irresponsible to punish them with jail time.

"The security situation on our Southern land border requires a strong law enforcement presence. This conviction demoralizes our nation's Border Patrol and sends a clear message that we are not serious about protecting our borders and enforcing our immigration laws."

Hunter's communications director, Joe Kasper, commented at the time that the facts of this case are "so nebulous" that the case represents a "severe injustice."

"Agents Ramos and Compean felt threatened and acted appropriately to apprehend the individual. At most, an administrative punishment is required but certainly not 11- and 12-year federal prison sentences."

As Ramos and Compean languish in prison, guess what happened to the illegal alien drug dealer... In November, 2007, Davila was arrested again for drug smuggling.

The Washington Times quotes T. J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, as being critical with the timing of the indictment against Aldrete Davila.

"Osvaldo Aldrete Davila should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for these felonies two years ago," said Mr. Bonner, whose group represents more than 12,000 Border Patrol agents. "This deliberate and unconscionable delay directly resulted in the wrongful incarceration of two innocent law-enforcement officers."

According to Drug Enforcement Administration documents obtained by The Times, DEA investigators believed they had sufficient evidence to indict Aldrete Davila in late 2005, but their requests to do so were denied by Mr. Sutton's office.

President Bush has the opportunity to correct the actions by Sutton and to set Ramos and Compean free! Contact President Bush and urge him to do the right thing. A presidential pardon will allow Ramos and Compean to return to their families. Join GOPUSA in sending a message to the president.

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November 11, 2008

[recipient address was inserted here]

Dear [recipient name was inserted here],

You will soon leave office but before you do an injustice must be righted.

**I ask that you pardon former Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean. These law enforcement agents have been in prison for more than 2 years.

**A bipartisan Senate Judiciary Committee hearing determined "that the
sentence does not match the crime" for Border Patrol agents Ramos and
Compean. Senators from both sides of the aisle spoke in support of Ramos
and Compean.

**"It is incomprehensible to me that an illegal alien drug smuggler was
allowed to violate his immunity agreement, perjure himself and be granted
a series of unlimited visas to roam free in our country while two border
patrol agents were given excessive prison sentences." Sen. John Cornyn
(R-TX).

**"The sentences of 11 years for Agent Ramos and 12 years for Agent Compean were significantly higher than for many other serious crimes....Ramos and Compean have now served six months in the federal penitentiary, and we would ask the President to review the case closely and commute the sentence." Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA).

**Illegal alien Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila was smuggling over 700 pounds of
marijuana into the US when Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean
attempted to stop him. A physical altercation ensued and Aldrete-Davila
ran toward the border resulting in a foot pursuit and the pointing of an
object at the agents by the fleeing suspect. Fearing they were about to be
shot the agents protected themselves as they have been trained to do.

**Defying all logic and common sense the prosecution, headed by Federal
Prosecutor Johnny Sutton, supplied Aldrete-Davila with a border pass which permitted him to enter the US legally and without supervision at least 10 times.

**There is evidence that during one of these US prosecutor approved
crossings Aldrete-Davila entered the United States again transporting a
large quantity of marijuana - perhaps as much as 750 pounds.

**We know that the jury was barred from hearing any evidence about
Aldrete-Davila's second drug load and instead, the prosecutor was able to
argue in closing statements that Aldrete-Davila had run from border agents just because he wanted to get home.

We know the just DID NOT hear all the facts of the case. The Defense had a report from the DEA that fingered the dope runner in other drug smuggling operations between the time he was shot by Ramos and Compean in feb. of 05 and October 2005. We know this because he was eventually arrested and charged with smuggling offenses in June, September and twice in October of 2005.

The DEA had reports and was ready to indict, however, Mr. Sutton's office
told them not to do it.

**Agents Ramos and Compean failed to report the discharging of their weapons after giving a verbal report to a supervisor. Perhaps internal discipline would have been appropriate, however they are now serving 11 and 12 year sentences in federal prison for attempting to protect America.

If you know anything about the constitution, you will understand that the
agents could not file a report mentinoing the discharge of a weapon as it
would violate their fifth amendment rights.

The fact that the supervisors did not want to come in on their own time
and fill out paper work is very disturbing.

The fact that Davila has a family friend who works for the US Border
Patrol knew the story and was even told six days before the immunity
agreement that Davila had been shot running drugs. Davila admitted this in a phone call to this agent, yet, he did not inform his supervisors and
this agent also accessed the BP database on his own to get the
information. apparently this is a violation of Border patrol protocol.

Its also a KNOWN FACT that this same agent would tip off the Border patrol in the El Paso area when drugs would be smuggled and where, unless it involved Davila or the drug cartel he smuggled for.

**These Border Agents, Ramos and Compean, were in good standing before this incident and had no criminal records. In fact, Ignacio Ramos was up for border patrol agent of the year before this incident happened.

Mr. President, You tell us to review the facts of this case and Im asking
you to actually do the same because I think you are taking the words of
your good, close, personal friend, Johnny Sutton and not checking into
things on your own.

I ask that you put your friendship aside and really get into this case.
View the media reports, the radio and TV interviews with both agents, the
testimony of everyone involved, including the three border patrol agents
who were threatened with prosecution if they would not tell the
prosecutors what they wanted to hear. Remember, all three of these agents ADMITTED on the stand to lying in their statements.

Also remember that three jurors have come forward with signed affadavits
in regard to juror conduct in the jury room when deliberations were taking
place. The jury foreman said that the judge told him "there will not be a
hung jury" and I personally find this hard to beleive as juries I have sat
on have never had the judge talk to anyone about the decision.
Also another juror wanted to get out of there because the final day of
deliberation was the day spring break started and he had to leave town.

It is funny that in a radio interview the decision the day before was 9-3
to acquit, then all of a sudden it was changed to 12-0 guilty.

In an interview on KSEV in houston, one of the hosts went to El Paso and
actually interviews two jurors. When they were shown evidence that was not allowed in court, or the DEA report that I mentioned earlier, both jurors said if they had known this they were sure the jury's decision would have been completely different. This was played the day that your friend,
Johnny Sutton was in studio and held an hour long interview. He shruged it
off as something that was not important and even said that jurors always
come forward later to change their story.

Over 1/2 Million people have signed online petitions and probably made
calls to the white house comment line asking you to do the right thing in
this case. and unfortunately for the 1/2 million people, we are STILL
WAITING for you to do the right thing.

The American people get it and support these two agents. If they didnt,
fundraisers for both familes would not be the success that they have
become.

**I ask you to do the right thing and return these men to their families.

One last comment, there are many Americans who will hold this against your legacy as President and its already bad for you that less than 25 percent of people surveyed think your doing a good job.
I for one will remember this and will continue to bad mouth you as the
worst president this country has had. You refuse to close the border after
9-11 allowing who knows how many terrorists walk right in. Your love
affair with mexico and allowing them to tell you and the Dept. of Justice
who to prosecute is another bad stain. Your friendship with a US Attorney
who lvoes to prosecute law enforcement for doing thir job has also put
Border Patrol and law enforcement on the Southern border has left them
with low morale because they dont want to be next. Your administration's
refusal to extradite the Killer who ran over the BP agent in California in
January 08 and released in Mexico in the Summer of 08 tells me you do not care about what happens.

Im sure I have left something out but Im also sure you can see from what
I have written that I am very passionate about this case, and very upset
that the US Attorney lied, hid evidence and gave immunity to a KNOWN drug smuggler

Sincerely,


the paragraphs with the ** are the ones that will automatically be put into your letter in the long box mentioned in my above post.
Everyhting else, I added based on what I know