Congressman McClintock Urges President to Pardon Border Patrol Agents Compean and Ramos

January 15, 2009 1:08 PM

Congressman McClintock Urges President to Pardon Border Patrol Agents Compean and Ramos

Remarks by Congressman Tom McClintock
House Floor
January 14, 2009

Mr. Speaker:

I rise today to express my hope that this President will not leave office before using his pardon to correct one of the great injustices of our time: the imprisonment of Border Patrol officers Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. They’re the officers who wounded a drug smuggler as he tried to escape. The drug smuggler got immunity; Ramos and Compean got lengthy prison sentences.

This injustice sends a chilling message to Border Patrol officers who are heroically trying to defend the integrity of our borders against enormous odds and with inadequate resources.
It cannot be allowed to stand.

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