A Christmas Pardon for Border Agents?

Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos, were sentenced to 12 years and 11 years, respectively, in October by U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso, Texas. The drug smuggler was granted immunity for his testimony.  Doesn't sound fair to me.  Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R, Calif.; Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist; and members of other border-security groups such as Friends of the Border Patrol, are asking President George W. Bush for a 'Christmas pardon' for these agents.

Grassfire.org has a petition up for these men, go sign it.  Here's the story:

As WND has reported, a federal jury convicted Compean, 28, and Ramos, 37, in March after a two-week trial on charges of causing serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence and a civil rights violation. Ramos is an eight-year veteran of the U.S. Naval Reserve and a former nominee for Border Patrol Agent of the Year.

On Feb. 17, 2005, Ramos responded to a request for back-up from Compean, who noticed a suspicious van near the levee road along the Rio Grande River near the Texas town of Fabens, about 40 miles east of El Paso. A third agent also joined the pursuit.

Fleeing was an illegal alien, Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila of Mexico. Unknown to the growing number of Border Patrol agents converging on Fabens, Aldrete-Davila’s van was carrying 800 pounds of marijuana.

Aldrete-Davila stopped the van on a levee, jumped out and started running toward the river. When he reached the other side of the levee, he was met by Compean who had anticipated the smuggler’s attempt to get back to Mexico.

“We both yelled out for him to stop, but he wouldn’t stop, and he just kept running,” Ramos told California’s Inland Valley Daily Bulletin.

“At some point during the time where I’m crossing the canal, I hear shots being fired,” Ramos said. “Later, I see Compean on the ground, but I keep running after the smuggler.”

At that point, Ramos said, Aldrete-Davila turned toward him, pointing what looked like a gun.

“I shot,” Ramos said. “But I didn’t think he was hit, because he kept running into the brush and then disappeared into it. Later, we all watched as he jumped into a van waiting for him. He seemed fine. It didn’t look like he had been hit at all.”

The U.S. government filed charges against Ramos and Compean after giving full immunity to Aldrete-Davila and paying for his medical treatment at an El Paso hospital.

Others posting:

Common Sense America, The American Dream
My Country - My View, Yet Another Bleeding Heart, and Candlelight Vigil for Illegal Immigrants/ CRIMINAL INVADERS!
REAL CLEAR POLITICS ……..misses the mark….Illegal Immigrants are not Scapegoats, stickNstein, also MEAT PACKER/PROGRAMMERS…. SMARTER THAN HOMELAND SECURITY?…….evidently….
Learning Straight Up, Legal workers sue Swift for favoring illegal workers- and a few other thoughts
InMuscatine, Operation Cockroach, also Vilcack Chilly to ICE , and Former Employees Sue Swift
DeMediacratic Nation, Barack Screwed Up With Illegals
Morning Coffee, Going After Employers Of Illegals
Take Back Georgia, MCDC Chapter Started In Georgia and Ellsworth: Police detain suspected illegal immigrants, and Georgia vs Illegal Alliens, Who Will Win?
Liberally Conservative has a roundup

Freedom Folks has more

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Comments

[Debbie]

I just happened to be sitting at the computer when this came across the news. I'm not like stickNstein, who must LIVE at his computer, ha. Thanks for the link.

[Ronnysgirl]

Hi Deb, I knew this would be a good one when I seen it. I was going to post on it but I see you are already on it so I will cross post. :)