President Bush has made many mistakes over the last years both in the social issues of this country that he has neglected and in his foreign policy. He has had the opportunity to do the right thing with two former U.S. Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean who were arrested and jailed for shooting a drug dealer.
If you are not familiar with the issue at hand here it is in brief:
A drug dealer tried to escape with 700 pounds of drugs worth a million dollars. The drug dealer flees from law enforcement who to try to stop him. There was a scuffle, shots are fired and exchanged. The border agents don’t know whether they shot the offender or not because he escapes back to Mexico. And the next thing they know the U.S. federal government now gets involved. The federal government is on the side of the drug dealer whom they give immunity too. In court he testifies against the two border agents. And today, they’re going to prison.
So the people who are sent out to protect our borders are now in prison because this administration would rather give a drug dealer immunity rather than to protect our citizens and borders. Republics and Democrats alike have called on the President to give the two border agents a presidential pardon, but the president has ignored the congressmen and 250,000 Americans who signed a petition. It is also worth pointing out as Rep Tom Tancredo (R), Colorado said “that over the Christmas break, the president of the United States pardoned 18 felons. Five of those people were drug dealers. Five drug dealers pardoned at Christmas, but we cannot even get a response to the letters we have sent asking him to pardon the Border Patrol agents. What greater example of where this president’s priorities are than that?”
Our president would rather give 18 felons a U.S. pardoned rather than pardon two honorable and brave agents who wanted to protect and uphold U.S. laws. Where is the mind of our President? He has certainly turned his back on the middle class and he is turning his back against his employees who uphold his laws.
To support border patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, contact the White House at: comments@whitehouse.gov or call 202-456-1111. You can also send an e-mail to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales: askdoj@usdoj.gov or call 202-514-2001
