What did Senator John Cornyn say about the horrid and reckless misuse of power by U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton... the man responsible for putting wrongfully convicted border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean behind bars for a combined 23 years?
"It is incomprehensible to me that an illegal alien drug smuggler was allowed to violate his immunity agreement, perjure himself and be granted a series of unlimited visas to roam free in our country while two border patrol agents were given excessive prison sentences."
You know all-too-well about Agents Ramos and Compean. They have already been in federal prison for more than six months now. And they still face more than ten years each. During the six months, they have suffered more outrages than most people endure in a lifetime:
 Agent Ramos was attacked in prison by five Hispanic illegals with steel-tipped boots, shouting
"****la migra" -- an obscenity. Congressman Ted Poe said bitterly:
"The federal government doesn't do any better job of protecting border agents in jail than it does protecting them on the border."
The bank has foreclosed on Agent Ramos's house, and his wife and three children have been forced to move in with relatives. Likewise, Agent Compean's wife -- with a new baby and two other children -- is struggling to get by, courtesy of the federal government, yours and mine.
The Bush Administration -- after promising months ago to review their case -- has done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
Yet something good HAS happened!
Politicians in Washington are finally starting to pay attention to this outrage, thanks to the willingness of thousands of CFIF activists who continue to make their voices heard on this injustice.
Just last week, Congressman Tom Tancredo introduced an amendment to a House appropriations bill, a provision that would withhold funding for the imprisonment of Agents Compean and Ramos.
And guess what! The DEMOCRAT-CONTROLLED HOUSE PASSED IT BY A VOICE VOTE!
If the Senate approves a bill with the same wording, and dares President Bush not to sign it, the Bureau of Prisons will be forced to free Ramos and Compean, and America can again go to bed with a clear conscience.
BUT...
We cannot, under any circumstances, allow the legislative wheels to move slowly on this one.
And we must not let them tell us that
"these things take time."
We all know that
when it came to granting amnesty to 12-20 million illegal aliens, a group of conspiring Senators met behind closed doors, conjured up the ol' razzle-dazzle and put legislation on the floor of the Senate SO FAST that the remaining Members of the Senate were expected to vote on the measure before the bill could even be typed, distributed and read.
If they're willing to do THAT for 12-20 million illegal aliens, they can certainly GET THE LEAD OUT and do the same for these brave border agents who have been unjustly incarcerated for more than SIX MONTHS!
Use the hyperlink below to send your 50 Blast Fax messages to each and every one of the 49 Republican Members of the United States Senate and President Bush. Tell them to support the amendment in the House appropriations bill that includes the withdrawal of funding for the imprisonment of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.
And tell them to do it IMMEDIATELY! Remind them that when it came to granting amnesty to 12-20 million illegal aliens some of them met behind closed doors, conjured up the ol' razzle-dazzle and put legislation on the floor of the Senate before the bill could even be typed, distributed and read.
And while they're at it, demand that they call for the investigation and removal of Johnny Sutton, the U.S. Attorney who railroaded these men. But above all, tell them to demand that President Bush pardon Ramos and Compean, who were set up and sent to prison for doing their job too well.
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But that's not the only good thing that's happened!
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) held a Senate subcommittee hearing on the Ramos-Compean case a couple of weeks ago.
The subcommittee examined evidence and listened to self-serving testimony from Johnny Sutton -- the strutting, bragging U.S. Attorney who threw the book at Agents Ramos and Compean as the rest of us gasped in disbelief.
Feinstein's committee came to the bipartisan conclusion "that the sentence does not match the crime"
in the case of Agents Ramos and Compean.
Senator Feinstein herself said:
"The sentences of 11 years for Agent Ramos and 12 years for Agent Compean were significantly higher than for many other serious crimes...Ramos and Compean have now served six months in the federal penitentiary, and we would ask the President to review the case closely and commute the sentence."
And still there is no commutation. There's a puzzling arrogance here -- a dark disconnect between the people and their leaders.
So why -- given the growing anger of the American people and the recognition of that anger by even the Democratic leadership in Congress -- are these men still in prison?
One credible answer: To appease Mexico which has demanded that the U.S. allow the border to stay open.
Why appease Mexico? Money? Dirt cheap labor? The flow of international goods through Mexico without having to pay America's longshoremen?
Perhaps the American people will be able to get an answer very soon.
Following Feinstein's Senate hearing, the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight is conducting yet another hearing this week.
The purpose of the House hearing? To establish whether the Mexican government played a role in the prosecution of Agents Ramos and Compean.
Indeed, several of our elected officials feel that Mexico has been wielding too much influence over the U.S. in matters involving border security.
"Why is our government so willing to accept demands from Mexico? What the Mexican government thinks about these cases should be irrelevant -- they don't have a vote,"
Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX) told Cybercast News Service this week.
Two law enforcement officers with exemplary records -- and their wives and children -- should not be sacrificed on the altar of globalist nonsense.
THE FREEDOM OF A SINGLE AMERICAN CITIZEN IS WORTH MORE THAN ALL THE PESOS IN MEXICO!
Use the hyperlink below to send your 50 Blast Fax messages to each and every one of the 49 Republican Members of the United States Senate and President Bush. Tell them to support the amendment in the House appropriations bill that includes the withdrawal of funding for the imprisonment of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.
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And while they're at it, demand that they call for the investigation and removal of Johnny Sutton, the U.S. Attorney who railroaded these men. But above all, tell them to demand that President Bush pardon Ramos and Compean, who were set up and sent to prison for doing their job too well.
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The Senate hearing revealed a lot about the case of Compean and Ramos, who were attempting to apprehend a fleeing illegal alien and drug smuggler. It also revealed a lot about
U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, who unturned every rock to find the illegal alien drug smuggler and give him immunity to secure his "testimony" against Compean and Ramos.
The Senate Subcommittee revealed that U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton furnished this dangerous criminal with a border pass that allowed him to enter the country AT LEAST TEN TIMES without inspection.
And although Sutton's office portrayed their star witness to the jury as a man beyond reproach -- a victim of the system who only smuggled drugs into the United States just once to pay his poor sick mother's medical bills...
it was well known that this drug dealer was a dangerous and hardened criminal!
And Senator Cornyn offered into evidence a document indicating that the drug dealer smuggled drugs while making at least one of those allowed trips across the border.
BUT THE JURY WAS NOT PERMITTED TO HEAR THIS PIVOTAL TIDBIT OF INFORMATION!
Commenting on swaggering Sutton's sickening misuse of power, Cornyn said:
"It is incomprehensible to me that an illegal alien drug smuggler was allowed to violate his immunity agreement, perjure himself and be granted a series of unlimited visas to roam free in our country while two border patrol agents were given excessive prison sentences."
In an effort to calm the growing demands for his head on a platter, Sutton scuttled like a crab from talk show to talk show -- from Hannity and Colmes to Laura Ingraham -- trying to present his persecution of these men as vigorous, fair-minded law enforcement.
Nobody bought his bottom-feeding story.
When Laura Ingraham asked him if he thought the sentence was excessive, he said, Yes. He did.
Then she asked him if he would ask his old buddy President Bush to commute the sentence, and Sutton said, only if he was asked.
But hold on!
Why did Agents Ramos and Compean receive sentences of 11 and 12 years respectively for what amounted to no more than an infraction of agency procedures?
It was because they each got a mandatory 10-year sentence for firing their guns during the encounter with the illegal alien drug dealer.
That gun charge -- one of 13 the prosecutor piled on -- didn't have to be included. It was tacked on arbitrarily and after the INITIAL ARREST of the agents -- BY JOHNNY SUTTON!!!!
Make no mistake... Sutton, and Sutton alone is responsible for the excessive sentence.
Use the hyperlink below to send your 50 Blast Fax messages to each and every one of the 49 Republican Members of the United States Senate and President Bush. Tell them to support the amendment in the House appropriations bill that includes the withdrawal of funding for the imprisonment of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.
And tell them to do it IMMEDIATELY! Remind them that when it came to granting amnesty to 12-20 million illegal aliens some of them met behind closed doors, conjured up the ol' razzle-dazzle and put legislation on the floor of the Senate before the bill could even be typed, distributed and read.
And while they're at it, demand that they call for the investigation and removal of Johnny Sutton, the U.S. Attorney who railroaded these men. But above all, tell them to demand that President Bush pardon Ramos and Compean, who were set up and sent to prison for doing their job too well.
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During Johnny Sutton's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, its members rightly piled on him... liberal Democrats as well as conservative Republicans.
Maybe that's why when he was called to testify before the House hearing, he refused to appear. And why was he so terrified?
Probably because he knew who was waiting for him: Tom Tancredo, Ted Poe, and Dana Rohrabacher -- three Congressmen who know more about this case than anyone on Capitol Hill and who could bombard him with questions he couldn't answer without giving away the international game and its players.
It was Rohrabacher who released copies of Customs and Border Protection documents that revealed the sleazy deal Sutton cut with the dope dealer -- his chief witness against Ramos and Compean.
As Rohrabacher put it:
"These documents verify drug dealer Aldrete Davila had an unconditional, unescorted access pass to cross into the United States. Free access passes were issued to him even after he was identified by the DEA in a second shipment of narcotics into our country."
That's right. This dangerous criminal was allowed to smuggle even more drugs into the U.S., compliments of Johnny Sutton.
That's AFTER the indictment of Ramos and Compean.
As for Sutton's refusal to testify before Congress, Rohrabacher said:
"[He should] either testify under oath before Congress and explain these things or resign as U.S. attorney."
Amen.
Use the hyperlink below to send your 50 Blast Fax messages to each and every one of the 49 Republican Members of the United States Senate and President Bush. Tell them to support the amendment in the House appropriations bill that includes the withdrawal of funding for the imprisonment of Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean.
And tell them to do it IMMEDIATELY! Remind them that when it came to granting amnesty to 12-20 million illegal aliens some of them met behind closed doors, conjured up the ol' razzle-dazzle and put legislation on the floor of the Senate before the bill could even be typed, distributed and read.
And while they're at it, demand that they call for the investigation and removal of Johnny Sutton, the U.S. Attorney who railroaded these men. But above all, tell them to demand that President Bush pardon Ramos and Compean, who were set up and sent to prison for doing their job too well.
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