[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 27]
[House]
[Page 36272]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS

  (Mr. POE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. POE. Mr. Speaker, Christmas will be here in less than 1 week. 
Most of us will be with people that are very important to us.
  But not so for Border Agents Ramos and Compean who are locked up 
tonight for protecting the Texas-Mexico border from smugglers, 
especially an admitted drug smuggler. These agents are in prison for 
their failure to fill out proper paperwork after shooting this drug 
smuggler bringing in $1 million worth of dope to the United States.
  The U.S. Attorneys Office made a backroom deal with the drug smuggler 
for his testimony, and even the U.S. Attorneys Office admits that he 
told some lies. Be that as it may, our government was on the wrong side 
of the border war in this case.
  The border agents should be freed by Christmas and put the drug 
dealer in jail. So there will not be justice this Christmas for our 
border agents because the U.S. Attorneys Office is obviously the grinch 
who stole Christmas from our border agents.
  And that's just the way it is.

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