Posted on 02/08/2007 5:22:41 AM PST by GulfBreeze
by Sam Antonio
February 7, 2007
In a letter to President Bush dated February 6, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) chastised the federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) for placing Border Patrol Agent Ignacio Ramos in the general prison population at the Yazoo City Federal Correctional Facility in Mississippi.
Rep. Hunter pointed out that he had written to BOP Director Harley Lappin in January urging that the agents be segregated from the general prison population for their safety. He received a letter from Director Lappin’s assistant at BOP assuring him that they would be segregated from the general population and that all measures would be taken to assure their safety. This was not done, and Agent Ramos was attacked and severely beaten on February 3 by Mexican inmates at the facility.
Rep. Hunter’s February 6 letter to President Bush says:
I was assured by the Bureau of Prisons staff that, subsequent to my letter, agents Compean and Ramos had been segregated from the general prison population and close attention was being paid to their personal safety. Yesterday, I was informed that agent Ramos was assaulted by inmates within the general population.
Placing these two Border Patrol agents in general population, especially when assuring Congress it would not happen, constitutes an enormous dereliction of duty by the Administrator of the Prisons Bureau. It is my recommendation that the assault against agent Ramos be investigated and should it be ascertained that the Bureau did place agent Ramos in the general population, thereby exposing him to danger, Prisons Bureau Director Harley Lappin should be discharged from his position….
Joe Kasper, press secretary for Rep. Hunter told The New American on February 7 that Rep. Hunter is also looking into many other discrepancies surrounding the reported excessive delays in providing agent Ramos with medical attention after the attack and the transfer of Ramos from his safer minimum security prison in New Mexico to the more dangerous facility in Mississippi. “There are so many things wrong with this case, from the very beginning,” said Kasper. “Congressman Hunter has repeatedly pointed out that the excessive sentence here — 11 and 12 years for the two agents — when most the average sentence for murderers is only eight-and-a half years,” is totally unreasonable. If they received any penalty at all, he noted, it should have been the usual reprimand and several days of administrative leave for failing to file the required incident report.
The national attention and uproar that the case has been receiving has helped Rep. Hunter’s bill (H.R. 563) for a Congressional pardon for agents Compean and Ramos. “We’re now up to 81 sponsors, including Congressman Hunter,” said Kasper, and pressure continues to build for President Bush to pardon them.
Ouch!
Yuppers
One must admit it is strange to say the least to put a former LEO in with the general prison population.
Something stinks here...
Duncan Hunter is my congressman - the one bright spot on my political horizon.
Yesterday Roger Hedgecock filling in for Rush, spoke very highly of him. Hopefully that will raise his name recognition.
I can't see how Rush can claim there are NO conservatives running.
There's at least one: Duncan Hunter
You lost me on the Bush bashing
I'll seek the facts elsewhere
Thanks y'all!
Total Petitioners to Date: 307,956
# added in the last 72 hours: 15667
# of U.S. States petitioners are from: 50
add me. Thanks
Hunter/Gingrich
Gingrich/Hunter
Sorry Jorge, but when they illegally cross our borders, their nose is no longer clean. Secondly, they do not want citizenship. They have already proven that. They want to come here, make money, send it back to Mexico, never pay any taxes, and expect free healthcare. They think that this is their land. They say we stole their land and yet, we fought for it and won it.
Awesome:)
It is, what it is...and Bush needs to stand up for his own. You want to keep your head in the sand...go ahead.
sw
It is unfortunate, but I suspect President Bush's reaction to Mr. Hunter's letter and the petitions, et al, was, "Yawn... now, where was I in figuring out how to sneak my North American Community Plan in under the Congressional radar..."
Flame away!
200 on the Hunter Ping list? Wow! That's pretty good for two weeks, and we've still got just under a year to go before the primaries start!
I was at first neutral on this matter. I wasn't sure who to believe.
But now DHS admits lying about their claims that the agents said they wanted to kill a Mexican. And now this? Putting former AGENTS in general population after assuring they would not be? DHS and the Justice Department are now the ones with the credibility problems.
This truly reeks to high heaven. And I'm getting the feeling that the worst crap has yet to be revealed here.
Please remove me from your ping list that I never signed up to be on. Thank you!
Thanks! I am having trouble keeping up with pings as it is! Note: I will vote for Hunter if he gets the nomination and you can take that to the bank!
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