Saturday, July 14, 2007

Pardon The Border Two :: Investor's Business Daily

"The Senate will hold hold hearings this week on the imprisonment of two border patrol agents who took their jobs seriously. Will we finally treat them with the compassion and justice reserved for those they tried to apprehend?

As the Democrats continue their fishing expedition into the "political" firings of eight U.S. attorneys, something President Bush is legally and constitutionally allowed to do, we're pleased the Senate is finally going to take up the case brought by one U.S. attorney whose firing would have been completely justified.

That would be the case of former Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, who are serving 12 and 11 years, respectively, for the non-fatal shooting in 2005 of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila. The agents shot Davila in the buttocks as he was transporting more than 700 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. through Fabens, Texas, about 40 miles east of El Paso. "

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