Bush Slammed as Border Patrol Agents Begin Prison Terms [Update]

The Republican Party just hammered another nail in their 2008 coffin.
They elected Martinez Republican Party General Chairman
If El Presidente Arbusto doesn't pardon the border agents we will know why.
Bordering on Insanity
"As for President Bush using his powers to pardon the two agents, I can only go by his track record on border security. I expect him to do exactly what he has been doing for the last six years." "NOTHING."

The Associated Press is reporting that President Bush is open to the possibility of a pardon for border agents, saying "there's a process for pardons." He added that the White House will review the case.

As two U.S. Border Patrol agents surrendered to federal marshals Wednesday afternoon to begin serving more than a decade in jail for shooting an illegal drug smuggler, a federal lawmaker and conservative advocacy group expressed outrage at President Bush for not pardoning the men.

"This is the worst betrayal of American defenders I have ever seen," Rep. Dana Rohrabacher said of the president.

"It's shameful this was done by someone who is in the Republican Party," the California Republican added in comments coinciding with the jailing of agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. Bush "obviously thinks more about his agreements with Mexico than the lives of American people and backing up his defenders."

"Our border agents risk their lives daily to uphold our immigration laws and defend our borders," he said. "If the conviction of Ramos and Compean is an indication of how our government will repay them, we can be certain good men and women will soon flee the ranks of Border Patrol service."

The immunity agreement protected Aldrete-Davila from being charged in the United States with drug smuggling. Ramos and Compean found 743 pounds of marijuana in the van he abandoned near the Rio Grande along the border with Mexico.

Aldrete-Davila was shot after he illegally entered the United States near Fabens, Texas, and refused efforts by the agents to stop his vehicle. Court records show he jumped from his van and ran south to the Rio Grande, where he was confronted by Compean, who was knocked to the ground.

Although wounded, Aldrete-Davila managed to cross the border and escape in a waiting van. The government's prosecution began after an investigator from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General located Aldrete-Davila in Mexico. The investigator had been dispatched after the suspect's mother complained to a Border Patrol agent in Arizona that her son had been shot.

Ramos and Compean shot Aldrete-Davila somewhere in the nether regions.
Perhaps they should have aimed a little higher.