Drug Smuggler Gets Less Prison Time Than Border Agents

This is… well…. asinine. There is something wrong when the criminals get less time after you prosecute the law enforcement agents to the full extent of the law. You only embolded the creeps in our society. I suppose the agents would have been better off if they had killed the drug transporter.

CNSNews.com) – The Mexican drug smuggler who testified against the two Border Patrol agents who shot him near the Mexican border was sentenced Wednesday to nine and a half years in federal prison. That’s a shorter sentence than either of the agents received.

Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila received two consecutive 57-month sentences for smuggling almost 800 pounds of marijuana into the U.S. in September and October of 2005. During that time, he had immunity from prosecution for an earlier smuggling episode — the one where he was shot by Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.

In February 2005, Compean shot 14 times at the fleeing illegal alien drug smuggler, but he missed. Ramos shot once and hit Aldrete-Davila in the buttocks before the wounded smuggler made it back across the Mexican border.

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