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.

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Fate of jailed border agents rests on appeals

Article Launched: 02/13/2007 01:27:23 AM MST

Former El Paso Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean still have a chance to be released from prison on bond pending their appeals, Ramos' attorney, Mary Stillinger, said.

Both agents have filed for bond with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, the court that will hear their case. A federal judge in El Paso denied their request for bond in January and the agents had to surrender and start serving their sentences - 11 years for Ramos and 12 years for Compean - on charges of violating the civil rights of a drug smuggler they shot in the buttocks near Fabens in 2005 and on charges of tampering with evidence.

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