Madam Speaker. today is day 404 of incarceration for two former United States 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 have now served more than a year of their 11and 12year prison sentences. On December 3. 2007. the Fifth United States Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard oral arguments for the agents appeal. During the hearing. one of the three judges on the case.
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