Posted on 01/24/2007 5:51:23 AM PST by NapkinUser
Calls State of the Union speech 'total sellout of the United States of America to Mexico'
Monica Ramos, the wife of one of two U.S. Border Patrol agents imprisoned last week for wounding an escaping drug smuggler, attended the State of the Union speech in person last night – and was sharply critical of President Bush, calling him a hypocrite and worse.
Ramos, wife of Border Patrol agent Ignacio Ramos, attended the event as a guest of Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif.
Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean began prison sentences last week, of 11 and 12 years respectively, for their actions in the shooting and wounding of a Mexican drug smuggler who was granted full immunity to testify against them.
At the conclusion of the speech, Ramos, emotional and in tears, told WND in an exclusive interview, that she considered President Bush's speech compete hypocrisy.
"How could President Bush say that he wanted to secure our borders and that he would double the size of the Border Patrol when my husband is in prison," she asked WND. "Ignacio was trying to secure our border from drug smugglers. And what do we get? I have to show my children their father in prison in chains and I have to explain to them that the president of the United States is a liar."
WND waited nearly an hour after the speech was concluded to be able to speak with a clearly emotionally upset Monica Ramos.
"President Bush can say all he wants that the solution to border security is new infrastructure and technology," Ramos told WND, "but as long as my husband is in jail the American people should know that President Bush doesn't mean a word he says."
"What I sat in the gallery and heard tonight," she said, "was a total sell-out of the United States of America to Mexico. I heard President Bush's message loud and clear. All the president has to offer is electronic gadgets. Meanwhile, our borders are wide open to illegal immigrants, criminals and drug smugglers. God help the honest men and women of the Border Patrol who want to do their duty. It's a losing battle – just ask my husband, he'll tell you the truth."
"The American people only need to ask me," Ramos pleaded to WND. "Tell America that President Bush doesn't mean a word of what he says about border security. My husband is in jail for trying to capture a drug smuggler and President Bush wants electronics? My husband is a hero and President Bush is a traitor as far as I'm concerned. Let him tell my children that he wants new 'infrastructure' or 'comprehensive immigration reform' when their dad who wore the Border Patrol badge for years is shackled and in chains for doing his job."
Rohrabacher agreed with Ramos, emphasizing to WND that "the Bush administration has a hidden agenda with Mexico and that agenda is to keep our border with Mexico wide open, even to drug smugglers."
Asked what message he wanted to send by inviting Ramos' wife to attend the speech in person, Rohrabacher explained: "I wanted to give Mrs. Ramos the opportunity to be in the room and look President Bush right in the face, knowing that this was the man who was destroying her life by his decision to prosecute her husband to the hilt."
Rohrabacher described the injustice he perceived in emotional terms: "By prosecuting these two Border Patrol agents while the drug smuggler is given immunity, President Bush has brutalized the lives of agents Ramos and Compean with a decision that threatens to destroy their families. The wives and the young children of these two Border Patrol agents are now being driven into poverty. The families have no health insurance, they are now losing their homes, and they face a mountain of debt to lawyers. This is a travesty of justice and a personal tragedy that should make President Bush ashamed.
Asked if he had achieved his purpose in inviting Monica Ramos to attend the speech, Rohrabacher told WND:
My purpose after hearing the State of the Union tonight is doubly resolved. President Bush needs to know that we will not rest until Border Patrol [officers] Ramos and Compean are set free.
In history there are cases where heroic people were brutalized and sacrificed by political powers in order to achieve a certain agenda. In this case, I think that's what's happening.
We have an administration that has a hidden agenda with Mexico such that George Bush wants an open border, even though an open border is not in the interests of the American people.
These Border Patrol agents are caught in the middle. They're Americans and they know what their job is supposed to be. They are being persecuted and prosecuted for our sake because they are getting in the way of a power play that has yet been disclosed to the public.
It brutalizes the lives and destroys the families of men who have been willing to sacrifice their lives for us for the last five and 10 years. This is both a tragedy and a travesty.
The continued insistence of the administration to prosecute these Border Patrol agents and to put them in jail and to shackle them and see the families of these men being driven into destitution – this indicates that there has been a decision right at the top that's based on arrogance and cruelty that I think unfortunately reflects our president. It's a side of the president that is now coming out.
We get calls back from the underlings, the assistant congressional liaison officers. This president doesn't return phone calls and he is arrogant and nasty and doesn't treat people very well, not even members of Congress.
The statement we're trying to make is that the president's policy along the border is responsible for murders, drug dealers and terrorists entering the country, millions of illegals. His policy has resulted in the undermining of those law enforcement officers guarding the border, he has totally demoralized the Border Patrol, and in the process of him trying to send a message to the Border Patrol he's destroying the lives of two families. … This person looking right into the face of the president in the same room, this mother of three, her life is being destroyed by President Bush's decision to fully prosecute to the hilt her husband.
American citizens need to rally around these two Border Patrol agents and should call the White House directly to register their protest to this travesty of justice.
President Bush made no reference to the Border Patrol case in a 50-minute speech that focused on domestic issues in the first half and international issues in the second half.
Monica Ramos told WND she was in Washington, D.C., to attend a meeting yesterday afternoon with concerned congressmen.
At least 70 members of the House have signed on to a resolution ordering a congressional pardon that would toss out the convictions and immediately free the former agents.
Monica Ramos described her first meeting with her husband in prison as "heart breaking."
Ramos confirmed the account provided WND by her father, Joe Loya. She acknowledged her husband is being held in solitary confinement in a 6-by-12 foot cell, without windows. Ignacio Ramos is not being allowed any exercise time, and he is shackled every time he leaves his cell.
"This may be for his protection from other inmates," Monica Ramos acknowledged to WND, "but this is abusive. They are treating my husband like the worst hardened criminal imaginable."
She said one of her three young children is so disturbed by the imprisonment that the family has decided to seek counseling for the child.
"My children are planning to visit their father for the first time this Friday," she said, expressing concern. "This will be the first time they see their dad shackled in chains, when they are used to seeing me send him off in his badge and uniform."
The couple's youngest child is 7 years old, the others are aged 9 and 13.
"My youngest child wanted to know if we could order pizza for dad in prison," Monic Ramos said. "No, I told him. Let's wait and have pizza night when daddy gets home."
"I profoundly disagree, one becomes a felon at precisely the moment that one commits a felony."
I don't agree with that sentiment but I do with the rest of your post, except the bicycle part. ;-)
It was just sitting outside a store and it was mine. There is no law against me picking up my bike and riding away with it nor did I attemt to take the law into my own hands by attempting to restrain or "arrest" the perp in any way. I don't need anyone's permission to remove my property from in front of a store.
No, I'm closer to the truth because it only takes a minimal amount of common sense to figure out you've been had after being screwed by politicians for several administrations running.
thanks for your sober and rational post and for taking a position that is pro-USA!!
As far as I can tell, disagreement with the policies of this Administration allows these agents to go free. I wonder what will happen if the same standard would be applied in the Jose Padilla case.
They work fine for me:
http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?s=4583232
http://www.kvia.com/Global/story.asp?s=4610288
We're talking about the conviction, on eleven of twelve counts, of two Border Parol agents. You might "think" that the argument is about the "border," but you're simply emoting.
"I dunno. Wipe the froth and spittle off and see if you can explain the horrors of it to us."
If you failed to recognize the consequences of what is happening here, you are too dense to understand any explantion.
"Maybe then we can see the link from illegal immigrants to two cops who lied and obstructed justice."
They were two border guards who shot a fleeing invading drug pusher and the government felt it was more imporatant to make a point of not mistreating illegal invaders and punishing overzealous law-enforement than giving them target practise so perhaps next time the rat wouldn't be able to testify.
If they hadn't shot this piece of trash, he would have been back in America again the next day peddling drugs. Like I said, too bad their marksmanship wasn't a little better.
Its amazing how braianwashed some so-called conservatives have become in the face of political correctness.
They are GUILTY !
Facts are your friend. They were convicted on March 8, not August.
Those are news accounts OF the trial--from reporters that ATTENDED the trial and heard the testimony.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/press_releases/2006/Compean.con.pdf
U.S. Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Western District of Texas
Johnny Sutton, U.S. Attorney
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 8, 2006
TWO U.S. BORDER PATROL AGENTS CONVICTED OF ASSAULT CHARGES United States Attorney Johnny Sutton announced that a federal jury in El Paso this afternoon convicted two U.S. Border Patrol agents on charges associated with a February 2005 shooting incident. The jury convicted Ignacio Ramos (a.k.a. “Nacho”) and Jose Alonso Compean with assault with serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence and a civil rights charge. Compean and Ramos were also convicted of four counts and two counts, respectively, of obstruction of justice. The jury acquitted both defendants of assault with intent to commit murder.
(snip)
"She's telling her kids that the president is a liar..."
I see nothing wrong with her being honest with her children, even if he is the president.
No different than telling our children the truth about Clinton.
How do you know what their intention was? One can only infer as to their intention by their actions, which suggest that they were being dishonest.
As an aside, if there was a gun, what would compel Compean and Ramos not to mention it to the other agents that responded? Isn't that kind of dangerous?
"Rohrabacher agreed with Ramos, emphasizing to WND that "the Bush administration has a hidden agenda with Mexico and that agenda is to keep our border with Mexico wide open, even to drug smugglers."
and terrorists. Pretty much sums it up.
>>The more I here on this case the more I think they shouldn't get a pardon ! They are GUILTY !
Really? Have you read these?
Congressman McCaul about the stonewalling of the DOJ and DHS:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771737/posts?page=250#250
Congressman Walter B. Jones's letter to Attorney General Gonzales:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1770690/posts?page=31#31
Testimony of Andy Ramirez before the Committee on Judiciary:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1771406/posts?page=53#53
It's illegal immigration.
Nice knee-jerk there, pal... I say two cops did something wrong and you try to spin it into me supporting open borders. This has nothing to do with immigration. It has everything to do with two cops stepping over the line and trying to cover it up. The fact that it just so happened to occur on the border is just ammunition for people who can't debate the facts.
Nice knee-jerk there, pal... I say two cops did something wrong and you try to spin it into me supporting open borders. This has nothing to do with immigration. It has everything to do with two cops stepping over the line and trying to cover it up. The fact that it just so happened to occur on the border is just ammunition for people who can't debate the facts.
Please provide a link to the trial transcript. Since the testimony is helpful to the agents, I'm sure that their attorneys have posted at least the relevant excerpts on the web or in news releases.
Bush has not only had to handle blows from the liberals in this country and around the world, but he's also having to handle blows from RINOs and those who call themselves 'true conservatives'. Such a constant barrage of criticsm, often expressed with hateful words, can dull the edges of your motivation, not matter how strong a leader one is.
If he had at least had consistent support from his party (don't read that as agreement on every issue), that might have helped. But he hasn't.
The more I read about this case, the worse it stinks.
Be sure and read this one, too.
Official Testimony
Presented by: Andy Ramirez, Chairman, Friends of the Border Patrol
Submitted to: Committee on Judiciary, The Honorable F. James Sensenbrenner, Chairman
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