One year ago today the border agents, doing their job were thrown in jail. President Bush's refusal to pardon Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean -- and White House spokesman Tony Snow's attitude of indifference regarding same -- is a slap in the face to families of murder victims slain by convicted felons in the country illegally and to our nation's law-enforcement professionals. Mr. President, you make me sick.Disregarding the borders and those that do their job to protect it. Sick. You wonder why conservatives have abandoned you? Worthless. Absolutely worthless. PARDON and release Ramos and Compean! California congressman and presidential candidate Duncan Hunter is attempting to take matters into his own hands. Mr. Hunter recently introduced the Congressional Pardon for Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean.
According to Mr. Hunter's staff, research indicates Congress has never enacted legislation purporting to grant an individual pardon. However, the Supreme Court has not ruled on the constitutional authority of Congress to grant individual pardons. Mr. Hunter's staff is currently in the process of obtaining the text of pertinent House and Senate bills. The White House stance is not only a slap in the face to families of murder victims and law enforcement. It is a slap in the face to American working-class families of all ethnic backgrounds.
Brandon McGee -- is an Independent Conservative -- you may contact Brandon anytime at branlmc@gmail.com
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So what exactly did these guys do that got them thrown in jail. Did they shoot and kill people? Or what.
Shot a known drug dealer in the butt.
Did their job.
I guess they disrupted the flow of drugs into the country so we had to lock them up...
Maybe I'll look into it because I have a feeling they didn't just "Shoot someone in the butt" to wind up in jail for so long. Im assuming they A) Shot some random person, or B) killed someone
Whether known to be a drug dealer or not, we as a country don't support vigilante justice. Think the borders should be more heavily protected? Fine, but I don't think we want citizens to be armed patrolling our streets do we? Maybe thats just me being crazy though, maybe it'd be great if everyone was out there handing out their own brand of justice batman style.
Just give compean and ramos a google.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/07/17/Dobbs.July18/index.html
Plenty to read on it. And your "feeling" would be wrong on the matter.
"Plenty to read on it. And your "feeling" would be wrong on the matter."
You're right. From what I understand on this case (which is still minimal) I see no reason why there sentences are so harsh. Primarily what I've read is just people saying they should be pardoned, so I still didn't get any real good accounting on the actual incident. But my understanding is no one was killed, so 10 and 11 years seems quite extreme.
Though, I'm not convinced it's presidential pardon material (I think the notion of a presidential pardon is rather extreme anyway, and think it's vastly overused).
Not in this case. Considering everyone wants the stronger borders besides Bush.
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