"They were simply doing their job."
That's what Rep. Tom Tancredo said about Border Patrol Agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos, with regards to the non-fatal shooting incident that has landed them with more than a decade of prison time each.
In early 2005 Compean and Ramos, in the course of their duties, came across a truck carrying a load of marijuana. Osvaldo Adrete Avila was shot in his sitter as he tried to flee the scene. For this Compean and Ramos are serving 11 and 12 years respectively.
Phylis Schlafly has weighed in for their release recently, saying Bush "must commute the sentences of (Ramos and Compean). This isn't just a partisan issue either. Even Rahm Emmanuel co-sponsored clemency legislation on their behalf.
President Bush has been issuing pardons to all manner of politically connected riffraff. Let's hope he is working his way towards some meaningful pardons.
Now we can debate whether a truckload of marijuana is worth that much trouble. I for one think it really isn't. But that is a separate issue. We all know that if these men were doing something more politically correct than apprehending an illegal alien neither one would be in jail right now.
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