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."
That is NOT a fact in the case....it is hearsay....and you SEEM to have swallowed it like a scoop of rocky road Hagen Das...
Yes, the perp was running, but he did turn and point an object at the Border Patrol agents.... Bear in mind that he is a KNOWN drug smuggler and they are normally considered armed.
Also, none of the supposed evidence has been released by the feds....even though my Conressman McCaul has repeatedly requested the interview transcripts.
The entie scenario has a stench to it....
Compean and Ramos testified the smuggler was unarmed, and trying to surrender. The other BP agents that arrived on the scene shortly thereafter testified that Compean and Ramos made no mention of any sort of a weapon. No weapon was found (meaning that even if the smuggler had one before he tried to surrender, he ditched it with success).
Bear in mind that he is a KNOWN drug smuggler and they are normally considered armed.
The marijuana was not discovered in the van until after the shooting. The smuggler was fleeing a traffic stop, and that's all Compean and Ramos knew at the time of the shooting.
He did get shot in the back, but the rest of the story is based solely on the testimony of the "victim," who happens to be a drug smuggler. I guess it comes down to whether you think there is any reasonable doubt that might explain how this guy got shot in the back.
It would also make it easier for cops to pop a couple rounds into someone and say "hey, he was fleeing the scene".
I don't like his border policy but I also don't agree with her. That said....her timing IMO wasn't the best.
And especially when the entire case rests on the word of this illegal alien drug smuggler.
There was a clear message sent to Border Patrol agents here: If you do your job, you can get in serious legal trouble. As long as we keep sending that message, we could have 12 million Border Patrol agents and it wouldn't do any good.
Well, when he says in his State of teh Union that he is not for amnesty, but continues to promote "comprehensive reform," which is de facto amnesty, then what would you call it?
But I agree with you that this doesn't help her get a pardon for her husband, which the President ought to grant.
Hey, don't let the FACT that the agents said they saw a gun spoil a good open-borders amnesty rant.
Do you know what hearsay even is? A wound in the butt is not "hearsay." Testimony by the person shot in the butt is not "hearsay". Good grief.
es, the perp was running, but he did turn and point an object at the Border Patrol agents.... Bear in mind that he is a KNOWN drug smuggler and they are normally considered armed.
So while the perp was pointing an "object" at the BP's, he got shot in the butt. That is one hell of a shot.
Talk about taking two Patriots and turning your back on them...When they do get out, I will not be surprised to see two very different attitudes towards the people and entities that were supposed to protect them. Actually, I don't blame them if they do come out swinging.
Right, especially when you're told to stop MORE THAN ONCE. But the pro-amnesty people aren't goping to allow a little thing like that disrupt their bashing of these two Hispanic Americans.
Which tehy believed they were, AS YOU VERY WELL KNOW. But don't let that get in the way of your Open Borders, pro-amnesty effort to smear these two Hispanic Americans. (I didn't think that sort of attitude was allowed at FR.)
Although, a sGordon Liddy likes to pint out, "that way there is only one side to the story."
Or, dramatically, while making it -- that part of it. "Accordingly, tonight I am pardoning Agents Ramos and Compean."
That is a true statement...but is an after-the-fact statement. They did NOT know he wasn't armed at the time of the shooting.
Frankly, I say shoot the illegal drug-running bastards and be done with it, otherwise prepare for the consequences. Why is it illegal to protect our borders?
All I know about law enforcement I learned on Law & Order, but I believe if you don't stop on command, that gives law enforcement some right to shoot.
I'll have to check with Lenny Briscoe to be sure.
And that's gonna be hard.
And O.J. ad Robert Blake were acquitted. Sometimes the justice system gets it wrong. The prosecution's whole case was based on the word of a drug smuggler. He'd say anything they wanted in order to get that immunity. Anything.
Please don't end a sentence with a preposition.....BTW kiss my wound!
What is amazing here is how the main point is being ignored. THIS DRUG SMUGGLER was entering our country ILLEGALLY and entering it to sell drugs, which is also illegal. If he had entered legally, and entered for a positive reason, he would never been shot at.
There is no defense for his actions, he should be prosecuted and put in prison. After that, he should be deported.
You are wrong. All our lives are in imminent danger due to the influx of these illegal "immigrunts". He was breaking the law and was acting as if he was armed, besides he was shot in the left side buttock (a$$0 for you people in Rio Linda. I say the bad guy paid his nickle and took his chances.
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