Dehesa Valley Gazette (January 19, 2009)

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DEHESA VALLEY GAZETTE

SPECIAL EDITION

RAMOS AND COMPEAN FREED!!

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MONDAY JANUARY 19TH 2009

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On his last full day in office President George W. Bush has commuted the sentences of Nacho Ramos and Jose Compean.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/19/bush.commute/index.html

The news spreads like wildfire across this great nation and we are grateful beyond measure to the 43rd President of the United States of America.

We may bemoan that the President waited so long to right this wrong but we celebrate the freedom, soon to come, of our brave and heroic Border Patrol Agents. We are thankful for their equally heroic families who stood beside their husbands and fathers. They too were imprisoned.

Monica Ramos lives in El Paso but seldom missed a trek to Phoenix to visit with Nacho on Fridays. He is imprisoned in a solitary cell. Nacho's father-in-law Joe Loya has devoted much of the past few years to the campaign to free his daughters husband. He has been a father to Nacho's children in his absence.

If you are getting this issue of the Gazette, you too likely played a role in convincing President George W. Bush to commute the sentences. You likely helped us support the families with financial assistance and unwavering love.

Talk Radio America also deserves credit from Roger Hedgecock to Lars Larson, Phil Valentine, Dan Rivers, Mark Williams, John & Ken, Dominick Brascia, Melanie Morgan, Michael Smerconish, Dom Giordano, Terry Anderson, Helen Glover, Martha Zoller, Steve Gill, Victoria Taft, Les Kinsolving, Dan Gaffney, Lynn Wooley, Gary Sutton, Howie Carr, Ed Hendee and more. Local radio kept the story of injustice alive, never relenting in the demand to free two men who were imprisoned for doing their sworn duty in a border combat zone.

We gathered several times in Washington, D.C. to make the case for justice for Ramos and Compean and broadcast live at Hold Their Feet To The Fire events. We were championed by a host of lawmakers from Duncan Hunter, Brian Bilbray, Dana Rohrbacher, Tom Tancredo, Dan Burton (yea it's been that long a fight), Sue Myrick, Virgil Goode, John Campbell, Steve King, and others.

Special plaudits due to a variety of organizations that worked tirelessly for freedom…The Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a number of Minutemen groups, 911 Families for a Secure America, Numbers USA, Light Up The Border, AliPac, Grassfire.org, The National Border Patrol Union, Friends of the Border Patrol and more.

And a special plaudit to Steve Sarviel who helped organize our Feet trips and produced a special web site to help us gather as a community in support of Ramos and Compean. And at risk of not mentioning a thousand other folks let me thank Dennis and Diane Snyder of Escondido Charter High School. None of our Hold Their Feet To The Fire trips would have been successful without their labors and commitment to the nation they love.

As important (likely moreso) our deep endearing thanks to millions of Americas who stood up in defense of Ramos and Compean with their letters, emails, calls, faxes and letters to lawmakers, the President and to the families. And your dollars helped keep the two families solvent as their homes were threatened and financial collapse lurked.

On September 8th, 2007 Roger's radio audience and others from around the Southwest (including the dreaded biker gang The Stragglers) traveled to Phoenix to support the Nacho Ramos family. We brought checks valued at more than 35-thousand dollars to save the Ramos home in El Paso.

I hope The Stragglers will be on hand in March when Nacho Ramos is reunited with his family. We'll have to figure a way to do the same to welcome Jose Compean home as well.

MEANWHILE…THIS IS SOMETHING YOU MUST DO AS SOON AS YOU HAVE READ THIS…YOU MUST THANK PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH.. YOUR POLITICAL AFFILIATION DOES NOT MATTER, YOUR OVERALL VIEW OF THIS ADMINISTRATION DOES NOT MATTER - WHAT MATTERS IS THAT HE DID THE RIGHT THING. HE HEARD YOUR APPEALS AND AT THE 11TH HOUR HE ACTED WITH COMPASSION.

AND YOU MUST ALSO BE PROUD OF YOUR EFFORTS. WE HAD NO HIGH POWERED FINANCIAL LOBBY, NO BIG CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLITICS TO MAKE…WE HAD ONLY OUR VOICES AND OUR PERSISTENT DETERMINATION TO RIGHT A TERRIBLE WRONG. WE LIVE IN A NATION WHERE WE CAN BE THE DIFFERENCE PEACEFULLY AND WITHIN PROCESS.

GOD BLESS AMERICA

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