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  • Border patrol agents' sentences commuted, but struggle not yet over (TX) congressman vows

    01/21/2009 3:47:15 PM PST · by flattorney · 20 replies · 2,225+ views
    Beaumont Enterprise ^ | January, 20, 2009 | Colin Guy
    Two Texas border guards sentenced each to about a dozen years in prison have had their sentences commuted by former President George W. Bush in one of last official acts. But the campaign on their behalf is not yet over. In 2005 Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos shot drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila in the buttocks as he fled across the Rio Grande, away from an abandoned van load of marijuana, according to Associated Press reports. The two men, who did not report the shooting and tampered with evidence by picking up spent shell casings, were convicted...