SENATE TO EXAMINE BORDER GUARDS’ CASE

Urge your Senators to Support a Presidential Pardon for Ramos and Compean!

In light of his recent commutation of Scooter Libby’s prison sentence, not to mention his pardoning of five drug dealers this past Christmas, President Bush certainly should have no objection to extending the same courtesy to U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. The timing couldn’t be more perfect for the U.S. Senate to hold a hearing to examine the events that led to the unjust prosecution of the two border guards and to recommend a presidential pardon.

Read ALERT, July 12, 2007

Attorney makes many enemies

U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, a longtime ally of President Bush, is being targeted by lawmakers and others across the country because of his successful prosecution of three U.S. Border Patrol agents and a deputy sheriff on charges of violating the civil rights of illegal aliens. THE WASHINGTON TIMES, April 13, 2007

Arrest prompts Border Patrol case questions

An arrest in a drug case involving thousands of pounds of marijuana brought from Mexico into the U.S. is raising anew questions about the prosecution of former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, who shot at a fleeing drug smuggler in a confrontation in 2005, then were convicted for that shooting and now are serving prison terms of 11 and 12 years. WorldNetDaily.com, April 5, 2007

Open Letter To President Bush

I am glad to see that you fired some U.S. Attorneys. But you missed one: U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, who prosecuted Border Guards Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean instead of a professional drug smuggler, and who prosecuted Texas Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez instead of a professional people smuggler. Phyllis Schlafly column, 4-04-07

Lou Dobbs Special on Ramos and Compean

Lou Dobbs Special -- CNN -- March 27
Rep. Poe (R-Tx) :The government had to chose in this case. They had to chose between prosecuting a drug smuggler bringing in a million dollars worth of drugs, or prosecuting two border agents that didn't. A chief Barker said, follow protocol and fill out certain forms. And the federal government chose poorly. They chose to prosecute the border protectors instead of prosecute the drug smugglers. And now we have apparently learned that the drug smuggler brought in another load.
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Illegals to sue imprisoned deputy sheriff

Mexicans say civil rights violated when injured during escape from officer

In a case eerily reminiscent of the controversial jailing of Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos while the illegal-alien drug-smuggler they wounded went free, two illegal aliens are now suing imprisoned Texas Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez for injuries from shell fragments that struck them as the officer shot at the tires of a van in which they escaped from a routine traffic stop. By Jerome R. Corsi, WorldNetDaily.com, March 24, 2007.

Illegal immigrants allowed at least five strikes

Documents released in the controversy about eight fired U.S. attorneys show that federal prosecutors in Texas generally have declined to bring criminal charges against illegal immigrants caught crossing the border — until at least their sixth arrest. Houston Chronicle, March 23, 2007

Mexican Hit Team Gets Another Cop

Texas Sheriff Goes To Prison

Lou Dobbs Tonight -- CNN -- March 19

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Sheriff sees pattern in border agents' cases

A Texas sheriff says a 2001 case against another U.S. Border Patrol agent set the pattern that was used by U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton in his recent cases against Agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, who now are serving prison terms for shooting at a drug smuggler fleeing back into Mexico, as well as Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez. by Jerome R. Corsi, WorldNetDaily.com, March 6, 2007

Corsi co-hosts Liddy show on border agents today

It will be an all-star lineup today when U.S. Reps. Dana Rohrbacher, R-Calif., Ted Poe, R-Texas, and Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., join National Border Patrol Council chief T.J. Bonner, Rocksprings, Texas, Sheriff Don Letsinger, Andy Ramirez of Friends of the Border Patrol and others for a three-hour discussion on the court cases against former Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. WorldNetDaily.com, March 7, 2007

Bush in a quandary over border agents' case

WASHINGTON — For weeks, defenders of the two former Border Patrol agents imprisoned for shooting a Mexican drug trafficker have bombarded the White House with calls, e-mails and petitions.
Houston Chronicle Washington Bureau, March 3, 2007