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Breaking News: Former El Paso Border Patrol Agents Free From Prison (both free)
KFOX-TV ^ | 2-17-09

Posted on 02/17/2009 8:32:21 AM PST by STARWISE

At 3 a.m. mountain time, former Border Patrol agent Jose Compean was released from the Elkton Federal Prison in Elkton, Ohio. Former agent Ignacio Ramos was released about five hours later from the Phoenix Federal Prison in Phoenix, Ariz.

Ramos and Compean will officially be released from Federal Bureau of Prison custody on March 20th, but on Tuesday both were allowed to rejoin their families. They had been in prison since January 2007.

Ramos and Compean were in prison for shooting drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila and then trying to cover it up.

On President Bush’s last day in office, Jan. 19, 2009, he commuted the sentences of the two former Border Patrol agents.

KFOX has a crew in Phoenix covering the reunion and we will have much more on KFOX News at Six, KFOX News at Nine, and kfoxtv.com.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aliens; badshoot; borderagents; borderpatrol; compean; dirtycops; illegalimmigration; imigrantlist; immigrantlist; jackboots; ramos; sutton; thugs
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To: Theodore R.
No, by offering a failed administration, GWB propelled overt socialism into the White House.

Bull crap of the deepest, most vile kind.

61 posted on 02/17/2009 10:03:01 AM PST by Wolfstar (Elections have thousands of consequences. Some minor, some major...and some that can kill you.)
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To: DFG

My husband called me to tell me (he’s driving and listening to GB) that the big news turns out to be that he has already scored their first interview, but it won’t be until after Mar 20, seemingly because as the article states, they are still technically in federal custody until then.

I’m so glad they’re out. Bet their families are a little happy about it too!


62 posted on 02/17/2009 10:04:51 AM PST by agrace
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To: STARWISE

Bush should have pardoned them, hell he should have never prosecuted them.


63 posted on 02/17/2009 10:09:11 AM PST by TomasUSMC ( FIGHT LIKE WW2, FINISH LIKE WW2. FIGHT LIKE NAM, FINISH LIKE NAM)
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To: Wolfstar
Bull crap of the deepest, most vile kind.

Not nearly as vile as TARP, which Mr. Bush supported.

64 posted on 02/17/2009 10:11:11 AM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: dynachrome

That is good news. Thanks for the ping.


65 posted on 02/17/2009 10:27:18 AM PST by Jim W N
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To: AbeKrieger
Finally, the correct outcome.

The correct outcome would have been a pardon not a commutation.

66 posted on 02/17/2009 10:29:26 AM PST by atomic_dog (No matter how obvious my sarcasm is, my post will be taken seriously by someone here on FR.)
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To: dynachrome

Oh this is excellent news! Too bad HUSSEIN’s signing of the crapulous bill is taking precedence over this news!


67 posted on 02/17/2009 10:29:53 AM PST by rockabyebaby (Say what you feel, those who matter don't mind, those who mind don't matter.)
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To: Nephi
He clearly didn’t want to pardon them, otherwise, he wouldn’t have waited until the last day.

So glad to know you're a mind-reader, but a "talented" fool is still a fool.

He’s lucky to have your unconditional love and devotion in spite of destroying the Republican party.

Destroyed the Republican party, is it? Hmmmm...all those so-called real conservatives who are always looking to throw yet another "RINO" out of the party couldn't possible share any blame for our recent electoral losses, now could they.

His legacy will forever be setting the table for, then delivering Obama.

If you want to know who, as you put it, "set the table" for Obama's rise, first look to those who backed and financed his preternaturally metoric rise up the political ladder. Then look to our seditious media who sold this narcissistic empty-suited Marixst as some kind of political wunderkind coming to save humanity. Then look to the congress critters on both sides of the isle who betrayed us multiple times, some for self-enrichment and some for political gain.

While your at it, be sure to look to the Right wing punditocracy, which decided after the 2004 election that they needed to broaden their own audiences. So they chose to do so by attacking Republicans at every turn. They whipped people like you into an anti-Republican frenzy, and helped to push us all over a cliff from which there may never be any return.

Last, but certainly not least, look to all those so-called real conservatives who so easily find "RINOs" under every pebble on the political beach, but who don't know how to play the game of politics effectively to save their lives. The term RINO is thrown about so often, against so many people, that it's lost all practical meaning.

68 posted on 02/17/2009 10:39:14 AM PST by Wolfstar (Elections have thousands of consequences. Some minor, some major...and some that can kill you.)
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To: buccaneer81
Not nearly as vile as TARP, which Mr. Bush supported.

I am inclined to think that was the biggest mistake of his presidency. However, I am adult enough to be able to acknowledge a person's honest mistakes without ripping the that individual to shreds.

69 posted on 02/17/2009 10:42:28 AM PST by Wolfstar (Elections have thousands of consequences. Some minor, some major...and some that can kill you.)
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To: MeanWestTexan
I believe they requested no pardon, as they want to clear their names. Same as Scooter.

A PARDON does clear one's name....and restores all rights.

I bet they do not look forward to more meat-grinding in a court of law...especially with federal courts during the Obama administration.

BTW, Cheney lobbied Bush for a Pardon for Scooter.

70 posted on 02/17/2009 10:47:30 AM PST by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: STARWISE; Ajnin; abner; AndrewC; Arizona Carolyn; Brad's Gramma; Brytani; calex59; Calpernia; ...
PING!

Ramos/Compean ping list

See also earlier thread:

Breaking! Ramos is out of prision! No word on Compion yet

71 posted on 02/17/2009 10:47:48 AM PST by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: Wolfstar
I am inclined to think that was the biggest mistake of his presidency Add Campaign Finance reform....
72 posted on 02/17/2009 10:52:36 AM PST by cbkaty (I may not always post...but I am always here......)
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To: cbkaty
Add Campaign Finance reform

1. Don't presume to do my thinking for me.

2. There can be only one "biggest" anything, although, when it comes to something that is not empircal, people can differ as to what the "biggest" is.

73 posted on 02/17/2009 10:56:25 AM PST by Wolfstar (Elections have thousands of consequences. Some minor, some major...and some that can kill you.)
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To: Wolfstar
I agree he shouldn't be vilified for doing a few things, although big things, wrong. My only two major beefs with him are TARP and his absolute refusal to recognize what the invasion on our southern border has really done to damage this country.

Otherwise, IMHO He was above average on national defense (terrorism included) and average on domestic policy.

74 posted on 02/17/2009 10:58:09 AM PST by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81

I agree!


75 posted on 02/17/2009 11:06:45 AM PST by ExTxMarine (For whatsoe'ver their sufferings were before; that change they covet makes them suffer more. -Dryden)
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To: cbkaty

“A PARDON does clear one’s name....and restores all rights.”

Legally, yes. There is still a stigma, right or wrong.

They requested the communtation to fight in the 5th Circuit (appellate court) and clear name legally and practically.


76 posted on 02/17/2009 11:12:05 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Beware Obama's Reichstag fire.)
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To: STARWISE

That’s great news!!!!! Congratulations to them and their families for persevering. This proves the people do make a difference if they are persistent.


77 posted on 02/17/2009 11:19:59 AM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
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To: STARWISE; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; ...

Ramos and Compean Ping!


78 posted on 02/17/2009 11:25:50 AM PST by HiJinx (~ Support Our Troops ~ www.AmericaSupportsYou.mil ~)
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To: HiJinx

Good news! Political prisoners no more. I trust some patriotic American will give them a job no matter what their ‘record’ says.


79 posted on 02/17/2009 11:38:35 AM PST by CowboyJay (Blame me. I didn't vote for Perot.)
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To: calcowgirl
Thanks for the ping cowgirl!

I'm so glad that they are out (or soon will be) but I really hate the whole stinkin' thing to begin with.

*sigh* No sense in rehashing to the choir but man, what a rotten way to mess up people's lives!

80 posted on 02/17/2009 11:44:07 AM PST by CAluvdubya (Please let me know if you want on or off the San Diego ping list. Let's get the ball rollin'!)
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