Madam Speaker. today many Members of Congress and their families will attend the Congressional Picnic hosted by President and Mrs. Bush at the White House. However. for two imprisoned Border Patrol agents. this day will not be a picnic. Today is day 505 of a terrible injustice in America. Agents Compean and Ramos have been in Federal prison in solitary confinement since January 7 of 2007. These two U.S. Border Patrol agents were convicted in March of 2006 for wounding an illegal alien drug smuggler from Mexico. The smuggler brought $1 million worth of marijuana across our border into Texas. and the drug smuggler was given immunity by the Federal prosecutor to testify against the two border agents. Since then. the prosecutors star witness. the Mexican drug smuggler. returned to America with more illegal drugs.
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Associating undocumented immigrants with drug smuggling.