Speech #1100041426

No one will stop the horde if this socalled comprehensive bill goes through. Who is going to stop them? Not the border patrol. And what about the border patrol. Americas most important defense in this battle against such an invasion? While the President stood with border patrol agents down in the Yuma sector in Arizona. praising them for their hard work. saying how proud he was of them. the border patrol agents were painfully aware that two of their fellow officers languish in Federal prisons. They are being held in solitary confinement for doing their job. the job that the President claims he wants the border patrol agents to do. It is the Presidents appointees who have perpetrated upon this border patrol the worst miscarriage of justice that I have ever witnessed. Ignoring pleas for mercy and pleas for justice. ignoring the clear misconduct of his prot6g6. U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton. the President has backed up his employees at the expense of border patrol agents. especially these two. Ramos and Compeon. The President has permitted his Justice Department to throw the book at these two border patrol agents for stopping a drug dealer. and perhaps. just perhaps. maybe there was some procedural errors that they were involved in. This administration turned what is. at worst. procedural violations. that they did not file the reports. even though there are questions as to whether their supervisors should have filed the reports or not. in fact. the rule states that the supervisors will file such reports. that this administration has turned that lack of proper paperwork into felonies that have put Ramos and Compeon. two border patrol agents who have wellserved our country. defended our families with their lives. they are now languishing in prison for 11 years of hard time. President Bush backs up his appointees who either incompetently or maliciously chose to prosecute our law enforcement officers. while at the same time. I might add. chose to grant immunity to the drug smuggler who they stopped.