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.

Monday, December 03, 2007

Agents' shooting appeal is today

By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times

Article Launched: 12/03/2007 12:18:01 AM MST

The terms of the immunity deal offered to a drug smuggler in 2005 will play a central part in both his case and the appeal by the two Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting him.

The drug smuggler, Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, testified under immunity for the U.S. attorney's office in 2006 in the case against El Paso Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean. The two agents shot Aldrete in the buttocks as he was running back to Mexico after a failed smuggling attempt near Fabens on Feb. 17, 2005.

Ramos and Compean were convicted of violating Aldrete's civil rights and of tampering with evidence because they did not report the shooting and because Compean picked up his shell casings.

Their appeal will be heard today by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans.

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