Congressman Tom Tancredo is demanding that President Bush grant a full pardon to two former Border Patrol agents who he believes were falsely convicted in connection with the 2005 shooting of a fleeing drug suspect who was in the U.S. illegally.
President Bush recently pardoned 15 criminals and commuted the sentence of another -- a convicted crack-cocaine dealer. But Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-Colorado) notes that former U.S. Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos remain incarcerated after being convicted of wounding a fleeing drug smuggler, who had brought 743 pounds of marijuana across the U.S. border. Tancredo says it is shameful the president is allowing Compean and Ramos to continue to suffer in prison while commuting the sentences of drug dealers and money launderers. "[T]he fact is that I cannot think of a situation that screams out for a pardon or a commutation louder than this one for Ramos and Compean," he maintains. Both men are serving 11- and 12-year sentences respectively, and Tancredo says they hope that at least they can get the two men out of maximum security and into a minimum security facility while their appeal process is ongoing. The congressman is hopeful that will be accomplished "fairly soon."
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