Thank you President Bush! Last day in office and he FINALLY gets around to fixing this absurd situation. While it’s not technically a pardon, they still get out of prison in March.
On his last full day in office, President Bush commuted the controversial sentences of two former Border Patrol agents convicted of shooting a Mexican drug runner in 2005.
The imprisonment of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean had sparked outcry from critics who said the two men were just doing their jobs and were punished too harshly. They had been sentenced to 11- and 12-year sentences, respectively.
Their prison sentences will now expire on March 20 of this year.
The two were sentenced in connection with the shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila, who was shot in the buttocks while trying to flee along the Texas border. He admitted smuggling several hundred pounds of marijuana on the day he was shot and pleaded guilty last year to drug charges related to two other smuggling attempts.
This is great news. Border patrol agents have been shy about firing their weapons in the last few years because of how badly these two were treated for doing their jobs and now we can all breathe a sigh of relief that our border patrol agents can get back to defending the border without worrying about a Federal judge locking them up for shooting a dangerous criminal.
