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.

Wednesday, February 28, 2007

S.B. supervisors back ex-border agents

By Jeff Horwitz, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 02/28/2007 12:00:00 AM PST

President Bush should consider pardoning two former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting an alleged drug smuggler, according to a unanimous resolution by San Bernardino County's Board of Supervisors.

"This case appears to be a highly unusual situation where law-enforcement agents were not supported or given due process by their own agency or by the courts," said Supervisor Brad Mitzelfelt, who proposed the resolution.

The agents, Ignacio Ramos (far right) and Jose Alonso Compean (left), were convicted last year of shooting Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila, who allegedly brought a van loaded with marijuana across the border from Mexico. The man survived and was granted immunity for his testimony against the agents.

In light of congressional outcry over the agents' convictions and the circumstances of the case, the county's resolution states, President Bush should "act quickly to conduct further investigation of the matter in order to consider a Presidential Pardon at the earliest opportunity possible."

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