Our Borders

[Esther]

With their legal options running out, two agents for the U.S. Border Patrol serving jail sentences in connection with the shooting of a Mexican drug smuggler are appealing their convictions today in federal court.

Convicted Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean are contending in an appeal of their prison sentences that their use of deadly force against a fleeing drug smuggler was justified because they believed he was armed and they feared for their lives.


Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, the drug smuggler who testified for the prosecution during the trials for Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, has been arrested on charges of bringing more than 750 pounds of marijuana into the United States.


This is an extremely sad miscarriage of justice. Why we let a Mexican consulate make us charge OUR border officers and sentence them to prison while with holding information that Osvaldo Davila was/is a drug smuggler.

The trial didn't even prove that our border patrol shot him, although they admitted shooting at him, believing he was reaching for a gun. But the bullet was not retrieved to prove he was shot by our border protrol vs the drug lords who could have shot him for coming back without his drugs.

This is a sad situation here.

You can read more about it on Point of View.