Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. As most of you know. President Bush so far has rejected appeals by many of us for a pardon for these two Border Patrol agents who are now sitting in Federal prison for shooting a professional drug smuggler who worked for the cartels. who was fleeing back across the Rio Grande. These two agents are now serving 11 and 12 years. respectively. I have talked to many Border Patrol agents about these cases. about the circumstances they face down there. I havent found any that dont support Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos. and 53. P.t. 15 20633 certainly their association supports them fully. In the meantime. of course. the great irony here Is the smuggler they apprehended for attempting to smuggle some 750 pounds of drugs into our country is free. The U.S. attorney here claimed that the agents fired on an unarmed man. but how do we know that? Because the U.S. attorney asked the jury to take the smugglers word for that and to disbelieve the two Border Patrol agents who testified they thought he had a gun. I can tell you I held numerous hearings down there on the border in Texas in the past. over 400 attacks on our Border Patrol agents. The family members of the individual here who was smuggling say he would not move drugs without a gun on him. That is what his own family says about him.
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