Border Patrol agents Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos and José Alonso Compean attacked an defenceless border-crosser who was frustrating to surrender, swig at him 15 times and wounded him as he fled, then tampered with the violation episode and failed to set forth the shooting as required to their supervisors. For their crimes, a federal court in Texas sentenced the men concluding year to terms of 11 and 12 years in prison. Now, elegance of the nativist movement, they are heroes.
Lou Dobbs, the CNN sheet anchor obsessed with undocumented immigration, has featured their situation at least 131 times, including a one-hour special, according to the September copy of Texas Monthly. They've been jumped-up by anti-immigration websites and lionized by politicians similarly to U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.). Even the American Freedom Riders, a nativist biker gang, calls them "persecuted.
" Why are so many associated with the law-and-order sane singing the praises of these two felons? Because the valet who was crack turned out later to have been shard of a marijuana-smuggling operation. Ramos and Compean didn't certain that at the metre the gink was on foot and tried to surrender, and the agents only found the drugs in a van after he managed to turn tail on foot back to Mexico, viciously wounded. Dobbs describes the officers as "these two important Border Patrol agents." Dobbs, along with many others, thinks they should go free.
Rival Minutemen leaders Chris Simcox and Jim Gilchrist were both at a Sept. 8 fundraiser for Ramos' genus that was hosted by the American Freedom Riders. More than $38,000 was contributed and over 400 subjects attended to show their "absolute disdain for [President] Bush's 'dear friend' Johnny Satan" a relevance to prosecutor Johnny Sutton, the decidedly middle-of-the-road U.S. attorney who had worked for Bush in Texas and Washington.
Others, as though Dobbs, have also savaged Sutton. Republican congressmen Dana Rohrabacher (Calif.) and John Culberson (Texas) have even claimed that the agents are agony detention conditions "far worse than those of suspected terrorists being held" at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. What no one has offered is any touchstone that the two are innocent.
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