{"id":930,"date":"2007-07-23T19:18:42","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T23:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=930"},"modified":"2007-07-23T19:18:42","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T23:18:42","slug":"letter-from-senator-chambliss-regarding-ramos-and-campean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/23\/letter-from-senator-chambliss-regarding-ramos-and-campean\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Senator Chambliss regarding Ramos and Campean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letter from Senator Chambliss regarding Ramos and Campean<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thank you for contacting me regarding United States Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean . I appreciate hearing from you. <\/p>\n<p>As you are aware, Agents Ramos and Compean surrendered to the U.S. Marshal&#8217;s office in El Paso, Texas, on January 17, 2007, to begin serving 11- and 12-year prison terms, respectively, for the convictions of assault with serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence, obstruction of justice, and a civil rights charge. Ramos and Compean have been ordered to remain in jail while they appeal their convictions. <\/p>\n<p>On January 18, 2007, in an attempt to officially release the agents from their convictions and prison sentences, H.R. 563, the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonwatch.com\/bills\/show\/110_HR_563.html\">Congressional Pardon for Border Patrol Agents Ramos and Compean Act<\/a>,&#8221; was introduced in the House of Representatives. Should this bill pass the House and reach the Senate for debate, I will keep your views in mind. Also, I have taken the liberty of forwarding your correspondence to the U.S. Department of Justice. <\/p>\n<p>As always, I appreciate hearing from my constituents.  Please do not hesitate to contact me if I can be of assistance to you in the future. In the meantime, if you would like to receive timely e-mail alerts regarding the latest congressional actions and my weekly e-newsletter, please sign up via my web site at: www.chambliss.senate.gov .  <\/p>\n<p>Very truly yours, <\/p>\n<p>Saxby Chambliss <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter from Senator Chambliss regarding Ramos and Campean Thank you for contacting me regarding United States Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean . I appreciate hearing from you. As you are aware, Agents Ramos and Compean surrendered to the U.S. Marshal&#8217;s office in El Paso, Texas, on January 17, 2007, to begin serving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}