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President Pardons Drug Dealers but Not Ramos and Compean

December 12, 2007 |

 This really isn’t a surprise but a BIG BIG disappointmen. Drug dealers get pardons but not the agents who shoot them.

[Statesman.com] The White House released a new list of presidential pardons and commutations this week which did not include two former Border Patrol agents whose case has become a cause celebre among conservatives and groups that advocate tougher border controls

The agents — Jose Alonso Compean and Ignacio Ramos — are serving 12 and 11 years in prison for shooting a Mexican drug dealer and trying to cover it up.

Lawmakers who support the agents were upset that Compean and Ramos were not on the pardon list. They say the agents were wrongly convicted for protecting the United States against criminal intruders.

Rep., Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., said that President Bush’s list of pardons includes “eight drug dealers” but not the “unjustly imprisoned Border Patrol agents.”

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