Posted on 03/21/2009 1:22:30 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
Former U.S. Border Patrol agent Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos wakes up in the middle of the night expecting a guard to shine a flashlight in his face. Jose Alonso Compean, his colleague, still has nightmares that he's not really home.
It has not been easy readjusting to life outside their one-man prison cells where they spent the last two years of their lives in segregation.
Since the commutation of their sentences by President Bush on his last day in office, the former agents, who were charged with the non-fatal shooting of a Mexican national after he abandoned a load of marijuana near the border, are learning to live in the world again.
Since being released from prison on Feb 17, both men were confined to house arrest for 31 days and were barred from speaking to the media until their sentences ended Friday.
In an exclusive interview with The Washington Times, the two men, now fighting to have their convictions wiped off the record, spoke of their ordeal since the incident in Fabens, Texas, in 2005 that changed their lives.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
yep - his mom must STILL be sick..from the article:
“Aldrete-Davila was charged and convicted last year for smuggling a second load of marijuana into the U.S. Prior to his arrest by the DEA, he had received full medical treatment from the U.S. government and a border crossing card that allowed him to come into the U.S. at his leisure.”
UN__xxx Believable!!
Thanks...2X
I don’t blame them for not reporting it/”lying” to their bosses but that may have been what hurt them the most.
Certainly they didn’t deserve prison for plugging some thug in the ass.
Bush’s DOJ was pretty pathetic. And he was cowardly only commuting them on the way out the door.
Sgt. Evan Vela wasn’t so lucky. The military scapegoated him to appease the Iraqi government and Bush left him in jail to rot.
RINO alert Schwartznegger/ Bloomberg on NBC MTP :Asked how we can afford all this spending, answer::”We cant afford NOT to spend that money”
HIDE YOUR MONEY!
The fact that so many FReepers supported these agents proves that we are not racist. Both men are of hispanic heritage but we all regard them as American. Skin color means nothing to us; belief in our country’s ideals and our way of life is what matters.
Oh and Compean will be on John and Ken’s show on Monday, 5:00 PM PDT. KFI 640 AM, also on the internet and via podcast after the show is over.
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