Mr. Speaker. the House Judiciary Committee Is scheduled to hold a hearing this week to examine mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Included in this hearing will be the opportunity to examine the issue of mandatory minimum sentencing in the case of U.S. Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean. As the Members of this House well know. in February. 2006. the two agents were convicted in a U.S. District Court in Texas for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler. They were sentenced to 11 and 12 years in prison respectively. and today is tbe 160th day since the agents entered Federal prison. The law that the agents were charged with violating. 18 United States Code. section 924(c)(l)(A). carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years.
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