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BREAKING NEWS: Two Border Patrol Agents who wounded a drug smuggler given 11 and 12 years prison.
Lou Dobbs / CNN | 10-19-06 | no dems

Posted on 10/19/2006 3:37:27 PM PDT by no dems

Edited on 10/19/2006 4:07:46 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Ex-border agents sentenced for shooting smuggler
AP

EL PASO, Texas -- Two former U.S. Border Patrol agents were each sentenced Thursday to more than a decade in federal prison for shooting a Mexican drug smuggler and then trying to cover it up.

Ignacio Ramos was sentenced to 11 years and one day, and Jose Alonso Compean was sentenced to 12 years. Both were fired after their convictions on several charges including assault with a deadly weapon, obstruction of justice, and a civil rights violation.

The men, neither of whom spoke in court, will be allowed to turn themselves in Jan. 17.

The agents have proclaimed their innocence in the Feb. 17, 2005, shooting of admitted drug smuggler Osvlado Aldrete Davila.

Aldrete was shot in the buttocks as he fled across the Rio Grande into Mexico after a confrontation with Ramos and Compean. The agents said they shot in self defense, but prosecutors charged that they had no reason to shoot at the fleeing man, who later claimed he was unarmed.

Since their convictions, support for the agents has swelled. Several prominent law makers, including U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, the Wisconsin Republican who chairs the House judiciary committee, have even called for a Congressional investigation into the agents' prosecutions.

The union representing most rank and file Border Patrol agents established a legal defense fund. And civilian border watch groups have asked the U.S. Attorney General's office to review the case and throw out the jury's guilty verdicts.


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: agents; aliens; bds; border; borderagents; bordersecurity; davila; illegalaliens; immigrantlist; invasionusa; mexico
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To: EternalVigilance
Johnny Sutton, why do you prosecute public servants for doing their job?

Obstruction of justice is whose job? Look who's talking.

661 posted on 10/20/2006 2:26:11 PM PDT by PRND21
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To: Kimberly GG

Let's face it, George W. Bush is the lord and savior of some of these people, he can do no wrong.

He certainly could do no right by fighting illegal immigration, even if he were so inclined. This Republican Administration is almost useless.


662 posted on 10/20/2006 2:26:14 PM PDT by StoneColdGOP (The Minutemen: Doing the Job Bush Won't Do.)
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To: PRND21

Drug smugglers: newest members of the professional victim class.


663 posted on 10/20/2006 2:27:03 PM PDT by JCEccles
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To: JCEccles
Why do you support the scum-sucking drug smuggler in this abominations of a case?

Because you're dumb.

664 posted on 10/20/2006 2:27:06 PM PDT by PRND21
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To: StoneColdGOP
Let's face it, George W. Bush is the lord and savior of some of these people, he can do no wrong.

What did he do wrong here?

665 posted on 10/20/2006 2:28:19 PM PDT by PRND21
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To: PRND21
And you are stupid as an a**.

Why don't you go down and use your body as a shield to protect the drug smugglers from the evil border agents?

666 posted on 10/20/2006 2:29:46 PM PDT by JCEccles
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To: PRND21
Why are you no longer floating the story that the drug smuggler shot himself?

Considering that no ballistics tests matched the bullet in your buddy the drug msuggler's ass, to either Agents' weapon it's possible that the round came from either Aldrete's gun or somebody elses. Not likely but possible. Of course, when you are biased and want to see Border Patrol Agents go to prison conclusive evidence really isn't a priority in your opinion.

667 posted on 10/20/2006 2:31:00 PM PDT by Ajnin (I)
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To: PRND21
Obstruction of justice is whose job? Look who's talking.

Speak English, amigo.

668 posted on 10/20/2006 2:33:54 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created..." - Thomas Jefferson et al)
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To: Ajnin
in your buddy the drug msuggler's

Nothing shouts "LOST THE DEBATE" quite like your posts.
Your "theory" is ridiculous, Mr. BP Agent. Your Union needs to be busted.

669 posted on 10/20/2006 2:33:55 PM PDT by PRND21
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To: PRND21
Did you have a "stake" in the stuff the scum-sucking drug mule was dragging across our borders?

Why do you have this weird love and compassion for the drug smuggler? Relative of yours?

670 posted on 10/20/2006 2:35:44 PM PDT by JCEccles
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To: PRND21
"LOST THE DEBATE"

Overwhelmingly, it looks to me like most conservatives consider this case to be a travesty of justice.

IMO, it is you who is losing this debate, badly.

671 posted on 10/20/2006 2:35:51 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created..." - Thomas Jefferson et al)
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To: EternalVigilance
Overwhelmingly, it looks to me like most conservatives consider this case to be a travesty of justice.

You must be reading the LP thread.

672 posted on 10/20/2006 2:36:59 PM PDT by PRND21
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To: PRND21

Why are you defending the drug mule?


673 posted on 10/20/2006 2:37:38 PM PDT by JCEccles
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To: PRND21
You must be reading the LP thread.

No. Are you?

674 posted on 10/20/2006 2:37:58 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created..." - Thomas Jefferson et al)
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To: JCEccles
Why do you have this weird love and compassion for the drug smuggler?

Why would you show yourself to be ignorant/wrong with such ridiculous posts?
Source your nonsense.

675 posted on 10/20/2006 2:38:52 PM PDT by PRND21
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To: EternalVigilance
Only the one percenters and grifters are whining about the decision.
Hence, you.
676 posted on 10/20/2006 2:40:10 PM PDT by PRND21
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To: PRND21
You have sick priorities, cheering for the imprsionment of two men who do the thankless and difficult work of trying to protect our borders. You bring smiles to drug smugglers everywhere.

Twisted.

677 posted on 10/20/2006 2:40:28 PM PDT by JCEccles
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To: PRND21

Just have a "thing" for drug mules do you?


678 posted on 10/20/2006 2:41:14 PM PDT by JCEccles
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To: Ajnin
BS.
You're as honest as your convicted co-workers.

Page 2, top of page"

"The bullet remained lodged in his body, causing him pain and impeding his ability to walk, until extracted by a military physician in the United States. On March 16, 2006, the bullet extracted from Aldrete-Davila’s body was matched to the service weapon carried by defendant Ramos, evidencing that Ramos fired the shot that struck Aldrete-Davila."

Source

679 posted on 10/20/2006 2:44:57 PM PDT by PRND21
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To: PRND21

You're as twisted and warped as the drug smugglers you're cheering.


680 posted on 10/20/2006 2:45:45 PM PDT by JCEccles
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