Bush Commutes Border Agents Ramos & Compean

[Tarheel]

I don't know if anyone reading this board has been following the story of these two border agents but this move by President Bush today was welcome news but more so for the agents and their families.  It's about time!  These former border agents have been rotting in prison with some of the folk that they help put there.

This is and excerpt from FoxNews, as usual, all emphasis is my own:

Bush Commutes Sentences for Two Former Border Patrol Agents
President Bush commutes the sentences of  Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, convicted of shooting a Mexican drug runner in 2005.    

FOXNews.com
Monday, January 19, 2009

On his last full day in office, President Bush commuted the controversial sentences of two former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug runner in 2005.

The imprisonment of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean had sparked outcry from critics who said the men were just doing their jobs and were punished too harshly. They had been sentenced to 11- and 12-year sentences, respectively.

Their sentences will now expire on March 20 of this year.

Ramos and Compean were sentenced in connection with the shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, who was shot in the buttocks while trying to flee along the Texas border. He admitted smuggling several hundred pounds of marijuana on the day he was shot and pleaded guilty last year to drug charges related to two other smuggling attempts.

The pair's case ignited debate across the country, as a chorus of organizations and members of Congress -- many of them Republican -- argued that the men were just doing their jobs. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., was particularly outspoken on the issue, at one time describing Ramos and Compean as "unjustly convicted men who never should have been prosecuted in the first place."

Nearly the entire congressional delegation from Texas and other lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle pleaded with Bush to grant them clemency. Conservatives hailed Bush's decision Monday.

"The whole thing was ridiculous from beginning to end, and two years was way too long for them to serve," said radio talk show host Laura Ingraham. "Conservatives are very happy across the country."
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The link:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/19/bush-commutes-sentences-border-patrol-agents/

[CCTAU]

Should give them their old job back with a raise and a promotion. If more illegals were shot, more illegals would think twice about it. Just don;t shoot them in the ass, put two in the head. No lawyer really has a case then.

[Tarheel]

Should give them their old job back with a raise and a promotion. If more illegals were shot, more illegals would think twice about it. Just don;t shoot them in the ass, put two in the head. No lawyer really has a case then.

I heard quite a few asshole MSM reporters saying that Ramos and Compean had "shot and killed" the illegal alien (read as "Illegal Drug Runner").  These reporters will never be over their "Bush Derangement Syndrome".

The short story of what happed was that they shot the fine, upstanding illegal in the ass as he fled to Mexico then tried to cover up the fact that they shot him.  He survived.  The corrupt DA charged the Agents with some bullshit gun law and bought the fine, upstanding illegal into the trial to be a witness.  The fine, upstanding illegal was later caught again running drugs.  While the two agents were sentenced to 10 and 12 years in prison.