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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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I am outraged. The woman U.S. Attorney is a witch and so is the judge who handed down the sentence.
1 posted on 10/19/2006 3:37:28 PM PDT by no dems
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To: no dems

This sucks!


2 posted on 10/19/2006 3:38:04 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: no dems

So this is what Republican government gets us. Awesome.

Hey Bush, pardon these guys or I never vote Republican again.


3 posted on 10/19/2006 3:38:37 PM PDT by StoneColdGOP (The Minutemen: Doing the Job Bush Won't Do.)
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To: no dems
A presidential pardon should be issued immediately or the sentenced should be overturned. They were doing their jobs and should not be penalized for it.
4 posted on 10/19/2006 3:38:50 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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To: no dems

What a shame. I heard one of the agents talking about his family and how his two sons were worried and the youngest asked "will you be with us on Christmas, dad?"


5 posted on 10/19/2006 3:39:00 PM PDT by MaineVoter2002 (If you dont vote on election day, then who are you electing?)
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To: no dems
Truly.

What are you doing watching Marxist Dobbs?

6 posted on 10/19/2006 3:39:11 PM PDT by onyx (We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
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To: no dems

CRAZY!


7 posted on 10/19/2006 3:39:44 PM PDT by VU4G10 (Have You Forgotten?)
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To: no dems

I agree. This is shocking and dispicable. A criminal drug smuggler goes free - in fact, will probably get millions from some idiot jury. And two border patrol agents attempting to secure our borders against impossible odds are imprisoned for over a decade. Once again, illegals have more rights than citizens. Unfair!!


8 posted on 10/19/2006 3:39:51 PM PDT by CottonBall
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To: no dems

complete border insanity.


9 posted on 10/19/2006 3:39:54 PM PDT by SFC Chromey (We are at war with Islamofascists, now ACT LIKE IT!)
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To: StoneColdGOP

Better change your screenname if you're going to make threats like that.


10 posted on 10/19/2006 3:40:07 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: StoneColdGOP
Hey Bush, pardon these guys or I never vote Republican again.

You probably haven't voted GOP since 1996 so I seriously doubt that the President gives a rat's rear end about your empty threat.

11 posted on 10/19/2006 3:40:11 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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To: no dems

unreal!


12 posted on 10/19/2006 3:40:30 PM PDT by petercooper (Polls Schmolls.)
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To: no dems

I say let's find out who offered the drug smuggler the plea bargain, and get him fired.


13 posted on 10/19/2006 3:40:34 PM PDT by TommyDale (Iran President Ahmadinejad is shorter than Tom Daschle!)
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To: no dems

Thank god they didn't send dirty instant messages.


14 posted on 10/19/2006 3:40:37 PM PDT by zarf
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To: no dems

I must have missed the story about this incident.

Do you have any more information?


15 posted on 10/19/2006 3:40:51 PM PDT by Txsleuth (FREEPATHON TIME--You need FR, you know you do, so please don't forget to donate!!)
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To: onyx
Dobbs is worshiped as a god by the border bots. Some of them even want him to be President.
16 posted on 10/19/2006 3:40:51 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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Note to all other BP agents: SHOOT TO KILL!


17 posted on 10/19/2006 3:41:00 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Roll your own cigarettes! You'll save $$$ and smoke less!(Magnetic bumper stickers-click my name)
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To: StoneColdGOP

They should IMMEDIATELY be pardoned by the President - hell Clinton pardoned murdering terrorists for Chrissakes! Outrageous!


18 posted on 10/19/2006 3:41:17 PM PDT by Republicus2001
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To: no dems

Any details on this case? Why were border patrol agents prosecuted for shooting a drug smuggler?


19 posted on 10/19/2006 3:41:31 PM PDT by Stone Mountain
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To: VU4G10

listening to John n Ken right now. They're apoplectic. I can't begin to describe my disgust.


20 posted on 10/19/2006 3:41:52 PM PDT by catbertz
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