Mr. Speaker. today is 324 days of incarceration for two former U.S. Border Patrol agents. Agents Ramos and Compean were convicted in March of 2006 for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler who brought 743 pounds of marijuana across our border into Texas. These two decorated Border Patrol agents. who were doing their duty to protect the American people from an illegal alien drug smuggler. are serving 11- and 12year prison sentences. This week. the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans began hearing oral arguments for the agents appeal. During the hearing. one of the three judges on the case.
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