Bush Commutes Sentences of Border Patrol Agents (Updated)

Fox News just announced that President George W. Bush has commuted the sentences of — but not pardoned — two unjustly-convicted U.S. Border Patrol agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.According to an Associated Press report citing a senior administration official, Bush...

Cole Calls on Bush to Pardon Border Partrol Agents

Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) sent a letter to President George W. Bush late yesterday asking him to commute the sentences and issue pardons for Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos.In October 2006, Ramos and Compean were each sentenced to more than a decade in...

Mexico Demanded U.S. Prosecute Sheriff, Agents

If the illegal immigration situation were not bad enough, evidence accumulating from attempts to unearth the true facts concerning the arrest and conviction of Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean suggest strongly that the United States government is not only...

US Government Lied About Border Patrol Agents

A liberal reader rightly points out that Johnny Sutton, the federal prosecutor of the Border Control Agents, has close ties to the Bush Administration. That doesn’t mean that overall Bush supporters, like me, are going to agree with everything done in its name. On illegal...