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"Hearing set in agents' case
Panel to look at Mexican influence in prosecution
Sara A. Carter, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 03/14/2007 12:00:00 AM PDT
A congressional hearing was granted Tuesday to look into the possible involvement of Mexico in the imprisonment of two former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican national.
The hearing will focus on the Mexican government and the prosecution of Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean. The agents were sentenced to 11 and 12 years, respectively, after shooting an admitted drug smuggler in the buttocks as he fled across the Texas-Mexico border.
The hearing, which has not been scheduled, will be conducted by the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight.
Chairman William Delahunt, D-Mass., called for the investigation at the request of senior committee member Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Huntington Beach.
2007-03-17 06:22:07 · 11 answers · asked by DAR 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
"This subcommittee's jurisdiction is limited to the question as to whether there has been any foreign influence exerted in this case," Delahunt said Tuesday. "The thrust of this hearing is to determine the answer to that particular question. It's incumbent upon me to work with my colleagues. & And again our jurisdiction is limited to the question, has there been any influence of the Mexican government in the prosecution
of this case? I don't know and I'm not rendering any opinion."
Rohrabacher said the hearings are a primary step in uncovering the truth about the pair's prosecution.
"This hearing will permit us to conduct an official investigation into aspects of the Ramos and Compean prosecution and others cases where a pattern of questionable foreign influence seems to exist," Rohrabacher said Tuesday.
2007-03-17 06:23:16 · update #1
What do you think?
2007-03-17 06:23:35 · update #2
http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_5430122
2007-03-17 06:23:53 · update #3
Give me Truth - they have been CALLING for a hearing, now the hearing has been approved. Who knows what will come out, but it is something. I don't know why there isn't a hearing about prosecutorial and agency ties to the drug runner via childhood friends that has been broadcast across the internet, though. As a matter of law, I would think that PREJUDICE in prosecution would be more likely to invalidate the trial than just influence to start the investigation.
2007-03-17 06:39:12 · update #4
At least this is a small shred of hope and positive news.
The fact that these patriotic gentlemen, these AMERICAN CITIZENS, are in jail over shooting a Mexican drug dealer is one of the most despicable things I've ever seen. Did you know that man, the drug dealer, was caught trying to bring drugs back over the border a second time when we came back to testify against these Border Patrol agents? And still he remains free.
I've heard a lot of stupid reasons for impeaching Bush from the hysterical shrieking democrats. Well, if he's complicit in the Mexican government influencing the prosecution of our citizens for simply enforcing the law, that to me is an act of betrayal against his country.
2007-03-17 07:14:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I have wondered about this all along and am GLAD to see that POSSIBLY something will be done to see if this happened.
The biggest human rights violation that has happened in this country recently is that Ramos and Compean were put in prison for doing their job! The conditions that they are now in - are ones that I think all that had anything to do with this should receive double the sentence given to these two men and placed in the very same conditions.
2007-03-17 06:41:56 · answer #2 · answered by Toe the line 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I hate they way the the administration refuses to pardon those border patrol agents. I think the fact that two honest individuals serving time for something good that they did is deplorable.
2007-03-17 06:35:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
About time. They were set up...it gets me sick about how Ramos is getting beaten...and now that he is in solitary confinement, he only has 10 minutes A MONTH to speak with his family. I hope to god that those people who have framed those two heros get what they deserve...including Bush for refusing to not pardon them. Bush trying to protect these United States my @ss!
2007-03-17 07:02:36 · answer #4 · answered by hera 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I hope they get pardons, and medals. What's next, someone suing for getting tetnus if they cut their finger on barbed wire while trying to jump a fence? If someone's dumb enough to make a break for the border, they get what they get.
Mexico should have no say about what happens on our side of the border.
2007-03-17 06:31:03 · answer #5 · answered by steddy voter 6 · 6⤊ 1⤋
it doesn't surprise me Mexico was involved. it shocks me that our sorry govt would allow those two men to be sentenced for doing a job we Americans hired them to do. if there is a trial for this, then the whole united states of America should be on trial, we hired them and payed them.
2007-03-17 10:15:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
you think i be shock to hear Mexico was meddling again
two border agents need to get Presidential Pardons
2007-03-17 06:25:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
The whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Those agents should be pardoned before they spend one more day in prison.
It is an outrage!
2007-03-17 06:30:25 · answer #8 · answered by Garrett S 3 · 7⤊ 1⤋
They have been saying this over and over but still they have not set a date. I'll believe it when I see
2007-03-17 06:36:08 · answer #9 · answered by Zoe 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Mexico. They need to mind their own affairs.
2007-03-17 06:47:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋