This just keeps getting worse and worse...

There is a grave injustice being done in this country right now.

It involves the case of two Border Patrol agents, Ignacio "Nacho" Ramos and Jose Compean.

There's a lot to say, but I'm just going to give you the highlights.

In February of 2005, there was an incident in El Paso, Texas, where Ramos and Compean were working. A drug smuggler, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, was running over 700 pounds of marijuana into the States. Compean claimed to see a shiny object in Davila's hand and Ramos fall down. He put two and two together and figured that his partner got shot. He started firing his weapon (by the way, the first time he had done so in his five years as a Border Patrol agent), and none of his shots were hitting.

Ramos finally shot at the smuggler and hit him in the buttocks.

Last year, the men were convicted of assault with serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence and civil rights violations. Despite the fact that three of the jurors felt compelled to vote guilty, the judge refused to grant them a new trial. In January, Ramos and Compean were told to start serving their sentences.

This is where it really starts to get bad.

After

America's Most Wanted

aired a story on the men, Ramos was reportedly beaten by several other prisoners at 10PM Saturday night in a federal penitentiary in Yazoo City, Missisippi, where several illegals are serving jail terms. They had waited until he had fallen asleep to start kicking and beating him, all the while yelling "Kill the Border Patrol agent!". He has several bruises on his chest, neck, head, and back.

This ordeal enrages me, and I suggest that everyone go to

Grassfire.org

and sign a petition for President Bush to pardon, no, exonerate these men, and pray for Ramos and Compean's safety, as well as their families, and for their quick release and reunion with their families.