Thread: Lawmakers want leniency for 2 jailed Border Patrol agents

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Lawmakers want leniency for 2 jailed Border Patrol agents
By SUZANNE GAMBOA
Associated Press
Nov. 20, 2008, 6:59PM

WASHINGTON — A handful of lawmakers want President George W. Bush to commute the sentences of two Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a now-convicted drug smuggler and covering it up.

The House members said Thursday that Bush should commute the sentence of the two men before he leaves office to show his concern for law enforcement officers and the danger of their jobs. They asked the Justice Department to recommend the agents' cases to Bush.

As Bush's presidency ends a close watch is being kept on who will get pardons or clemency, including whether he'll issue pardons to anyone who authorized or engaged in harsh interrogations of suspected terrorists. The lawmakers pushing for the pardon attorney to at least commute the sentence of the Border Patrol agents or possibly pardon them say his action on their plea will be a barometer for other pardons.

Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean were sentenced to 11 years and 12 years, respectively, after being convicted in 2006 of shooting now-convicted drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila of Mexico and trying to cover up the incident.

A federal judge in El Paso re-sentenced the two this month to the same jail terms after an appeals court threw out one of the charges against each of them, who have been in prison for two years.

"If you can't do it for Ramos and Compean, how can you do it for anyone on that list?" said Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa.

Ramos has applied to the Justice Department's pardon attorney for clemency, said Laura Sweeney, a DOJ spokeswoman. The request is pending.

Rep. John Culberson, R-Houston, said lawmakers will pressure President-elect Barack Obama to show leniency to the agents if Bush does not.

Other lawmakers who had signed a letter to the Justice Department's pardon attorney by Thursday morning are Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass. and Republican Reps. Ted Poe of Texas, Dana Rohrabacher, Howard McKeon and Ed Royce of California and Walter Jones and Sue Myrick of North Carolina.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6123780.html

Bushface has already responded to an earlier appeal by some groups. I believe that his response was that he would consider the pardon if the two border agents would admit to being guilty. That kind of reminds me of the Nazis torturing some poor GI until he tells them everything they want to know..and we all know about George and his waterboarding.

Most disgusting President there ever was. Kudos to the hard-working leaders who are trying to free Ramos and Compean.

Royce, Rohrabacher ask Bush to pardon ex-border patrol agents

By James B. Gerber, PolitickerCA.com Reporter
November 21, 2008

U.S. Reps. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Huntington Beach) and Ed Royce (R-Fullerton) joined a number of their congressional colleagues Friday in sending a letter to Ronald Rogers, President George W. Bush's pardon attorney, requesting pardons for ex-border patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.

Ramos and Compean were convicted of illegally shooting an unarmed drug dealer as he fled near the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, in 2005. Compean's sister, Claudia Martinez, lives in Rohrabacher's district.

“Ramos and Compean have been living in the torture of solitary confinement for almost two years for something they never should have been prosecuted for in the first place,â€

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It would be the RIGHT thing to do, so he won't!

That would be spitting in the face of his Mexican amigos , so I don't see it happening.

How can I report a Illegal who is selling false docmumentation in the Durham NC area? Her and her sister are helping illegals gain false documentation for IT's and Tax returns. She currently is using a work visa that was munufactured by a lawyer out of Miami FL. She has stolen from me out of TN and I know her address in NC.

Please help
pecorj7455@yahoo.com

Have all your documents handy and copies of them. Keep the originals, and contact ICE, and your State Police. File a formal complaint especially if you have been slighted by this.

Rep: President's pardons wrong

Two border agents should be released, not drug dealers or embezzlers, Rohrabacher says.

By Alan Blank
Updated: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:58 PM PST


Rep. Dana Rohrabacher has been vociferously criticizing President Bush for not pardoning two border patrol agents convicted of shooting Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, an admitted drug smuggler, in 2005 near the Texas-Mexico border.

Bush pardoned 14 people and commuted the sentences of two others Monday, but did not pardon Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, who are serving sentences of 12 and 11 years in prison, respectively.

By allowing the men to serve prison time for firing at Davila, the administration is sending a message to all border patrol agents that they should not use their guns, even when they’re justified in doing so, according to Rohrabacher spokeswoman Tara Setmayer.

Ramos and Compean contended that they were shooting at Davila out of self-defense, and Rohrabacher thinks they were in the right, Setmayer said.

The agents were convicted of shooting an unarmed man and lying about it.

Since the very beginning of the men’s cases Rohrabacher and Setmayer have been staunch advocates for them, appearing on television and at rallies throughout the district.

“The fact that the president has neglected to free these men from their imprisonment while freeing drug dealers, embezzlers and other criminals is insulting to the American people who have been begging and pleading for the president to release the agents whose prosecution was unjust from the beginning,â€