THE WESTERNER

Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Texans ask Bush to commute agents’ sentences

Nearly all members of Texas’ congressional delegation are asking President Bush to commute the sentences of two Border Patrol agents. All but three of the 34 Texans in Congress signed a letter to Bush asking for the leniency. Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean are serving sentences of more than 10 years each. The two were convicted in 2006 of shooting a man they suspected was a drug smuggler and trying to cover it up. The man was later convicted on drug charges from a separate drug smuggling attempt. The two agents were working the border in Texas.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: It is a mystery to me why President Bush has pardoned REAL crimminals and will not pardon two men that were seemingly doing there job.; 8:46 AM