"Convicted ex-border agents may not get hearing.
"We'll be done in Congress the week of the 11th. We're running out of time," said Alan Knapp, the deputy chief of staff and legislative director for U.S. Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas.
Poe expected to deliver by today a letter to U.S. Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, asking for the hearing to be promptly scheduled, Knapp said.
Sensenbrenner had given his blessing for a congressional investigation into the prosecution of agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean during a public hearing on immigration in El Paso in August. This week, his office directed questions to a spokesman who did not return phone calls.
situation is sorely disappointing to family members who had put a lot of hope in the promised hearing, especially after Ramos was sentenced in October to 11 years in prison and Compean to 12 years in prison for violation of civil rights and tampering with evidence.
2006-12-02
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