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  • Legal defense fund started for convicted Border Patrol agents

    08/21/2006 10:58:38 AM PDT · by beaversmom · 38 replies · 1,272+ views
    Star-Telegram ^ | August 16, 2006 | ALICIA A. CALDWELL
    EL PASO, Texas - The union representing U.S. Border Patrol agents has set up a legal defense fund for two agents convicted earlier this year of wounding a suspected drug smuggler and then trying to cover up the shooting. The National Border Patrol Council, the union that represents nearly all Border Patrol agents, launched the fund this week to help former agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean pay for an appeal and provide some money for their families. The men were suspended without pay after their 2005 arrests and fired after a federal jury convicted them in March. Union...