Two brave U.S. Border Patrol agents — Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean — are headed to prison for a combined 23 YEARS!  Their sentences begin on January 17! In other words, these two men are going to jail for what Congressman Tom Tancredo called, “doing their job” – securing the border.

The facts are as follows, Border Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean spotted a suspicious van on U.S. soil near the U.S.-Mexico border. The van was being driven by an illegal alien — Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila — who was smuggling 743 pounds of marijuana into the United States. When the illegal alien and drug smuggler saw Agents Ramos and Compean, he ran for the border.  The agents heard gun shots while pursuing Davila on foot. According to media reports, Davila at one point turned toward the pursuing agents and pointed what appeared to be a gun.  The border agents fired their weapons at the fleeing illegal alien drug smuggler. Davila was hit in his buttocks — although Compean and Ramos apparently did not know it at the time — and Davila didn’t even slow down.  He jumped into a waiting van and sped off in the night.

What happened next is so unbelievable, so outrageous that it should boil the blood of every American.

Apparently outraged that a foreign illegal drug smuggler was shot in the buttocks, Johnny Sutton — U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Texas — ordered a full-scale, no stone un-turned, investigation of COMPEAN AND RAMOS!

Sutton charged these two heroes with Causing Serious Bodily Injury, Assault with a Deadly Weapon, Discharge of a Firearm in Relation to a Crime of Violence, and — get this — a violation of the “civil rights” of an illegal alien.

What about the illegal alien drug smuggler you ask? DAVILA WAS AGAIN CAUGHT SMUGGLING DRUGS INTO THE UNITED STATES! And Sutton gave him immunity from prosecution from those crimes as well.

The Brass Monkey thinks that his is outrageous and urges everyone to urge your reps. in congress to petition Dictator Bush to pardon these fine men.

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