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Bill would de-fund two agents' prison terms July 21, 2007 By Jerry Seper - A Republican congressman yesterday said he will offer an amendment to an annual spending bill to prevent the Bush administration from using funds to enforce the prison sentences of two U.S. Border Patrol agents. Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado said the amendment would force the release of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, who were sentenced to 11- and 12-year prison terms for shooting a fleeing drug-smuggling suspect in the buttocks. "Americans have been waiting months for the president to right this wrong and I am...

Bush won't pardon agents immediately By DAVE MONTGOMERY Star-Telegram Washington Bureau JOSE ALONSO COMPEAN More photos WASHINGTON -- Are they mistreated heroes or rogue lawmen?That question is at the heart of a nationwide uproar over Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean, who are beginning decade-long sentences in federal prison for the nonfatal shooting of a suspected drug smuggler given immunity to testify against them.Scores of Republican lawmakers and thousands of grassroots petitioners have besieged President Bush with demands that the agents be granted immediate pardons.But to federal prosecutor Johnny Sutton and his defenders, the two Texas-based agents...