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Congressional Pardon for 2 Border Patrol Agents Proposed
Rep. Ed Royce via "The John and Ken Show" (KFI radio, Los Angeles)
| truthkeeper
Posted on 01/18/2007 4:30:22 PM PST by truthkeeper
Congressman Ed Royce (R-CA) was just on with John and Ken and said that he has co-sponsored, with Duncan Hunter, a bill that would provide for a congressional pardon of Border Patrol Agents Compean and Ramos. He said they have "been working our side of the aisle today" and already have 67 Republicans signed on. He said tomorrow they will start working on the Democrats. Regardless, he said the bill "went into the hopper tonight."
Congressman Royce admitted that if this pardon flies it would be "ground-breaking," but states that they are drawing their precedent from 1986; in effect, "Congress granted a pardon to 12 million illegal aliens, so why can't we pardon these two Border Patrol Agents?"
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderpatrol; duncanhunter; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; immigration
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To: truthkeeper
This was all over our local radio show in Austin today. It is appalling that they are in prison and the illegal criminal goes free.
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posted on
01/18/2007 4:32:01 PM PST
by
TXBubba
( Democrats: If they don't abort you then they will tax you to death.)
To: truthkeeper
Nice one. But will it face a Presidential veto?
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posted on
01/18/2007 4:32:17 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
To: truthkeeper
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posted on
01/18/2007 4:33:10 PM PST
by
pissant
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To: truthkeeper
Does Congress really have the power to pardon? How does it work? Like any other Bill?
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posted on
01/18/2007 4:35:51 PM PST
by
Gay State Conservative
("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
To: Luigi Vasellini
Can you refrain from disparaging the CIC?
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posted on
01/18/2007 4:36:59 PM PST
by
pissant
To: ElkGroveDan
Rep. Royce did say that this "would probably force some action from the WH" (or words to that effect).
BTW, he is my former wonderful congressman before my district got stuck with Loretta Sanchez's equally horrible sister, Linda. Ugh
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posted on
01/18/2007 4:37:28 PM PST
by
truthkeeper
(It's the borders, stupid.)
To: Gay State Conservative
Does Congress really have the power to pardon? And that, my FRiend, is "the" question...
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posted on
01/18/2007 4:38:44 PM PST
by
truthkeeper
(It's the borders, stupid.)
To: pissant
When it comes to our open borders he should be ridiculed!!
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posted on
01/18/2007 4:39:06 PM PST
by
Luigi Vasellini
(What do you call 2 toddlers and some duct tape??........muslim body armor!!!!!!!)
To: truthkeeper
Does anybody know the bill number?
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posted on
01/18/2007 4:40:18 PM PST
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
To: ElkGroveDan
Will Nasty Nancy kill this bill?
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posted on
01/18/2007 4:40:37 PM PST
by
pointsal
(q)
To: Man50D
I don't believe I heard him give one. If it helps, the principal sponsor is Duncan Hunter and the co-sponsor Ed Royce.
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posted on
01/18/2007 4:41:56 PM PST
by
truthkeeper
(It's the borders, stupid.)
To: pointsal
Not many if any dimocRATS will sign on to this.
To: Gay State Conservative
This paragraph from the other thread just put up caught my eye:
"Rep. Duncan Hunter, a California Republican, introduced a bill Thursday calling for a congressional pardon of the agents. Congress has never issued pardons to anyone convicted of a crime, said Joe Kasper, Hunter's spokesman. But Kasper said Hunter believes there is enough ambiguity in the law on pardons to give it a try."
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posted on
01/18/2007 4:44:52 PM PST
by
truthkeeper
(It's the borders, stupid.)
To: ElkGroveDan
Nice one. But will it face a Presidential veto?If he did his approval would sink to less than 10%.
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posted on
01/18/2007 4:44:55 PM PST
by
ErieGeno
To: bushfamfan
Ping
Do you have the Duncan Hunter ping list bushfamfan?
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posted on
01/18/2007 4:45:35 PM PST
by
sneakers
To: truthkeeper
Hmmmm....a bit like a Bill of Attainder in reverse, no?
To: TXBubba
"It is appalling that they are in prison and the illegal criminal goes free."
Were they convicted by a jury?
To: sneakers; Antoninus
Do you have the Duncan Hunter ping list bushfamfan?Antoninus runs the FR Hunter ping list.
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posted on
01/18/2007 4:48:31 PM PST
by
jmc813
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