News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Bush to talk to border agents' families

Convicted border guards hoping for pardon in shooting

By Sara A. Carter, Staff Writer
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin

Article Launched:01/20/2007 12:00:00 AM PST

President Bush is expected to reach out to the families of two Texas Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug smuggler.

White House staff contacted former agent Ignacio Ramos' family early Friday, assuring them the president would call them soon, said Monica Ramos, the agent's wife.

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Related Article:
Press release re: Bill to pardon border agents
See documents:
Proposed bill to pardon border patrol agents (.pdf)
Congressman's letter to prison director (.pdf)
Lawmakers urged to investigate agents' trial (.pdf)

Ramos and fellow former agent Jose Alonso Compean were convicted last spring on multiple charges, including assault with a deadly weapon, for the nonfatal shooting of Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila on Feb. 17, 2005.

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