Breaking: Ramos and Compean Released!!!
Former El Paso Border Patrol Agents Free From Prison
At 3 a.m. mountain time, former Border Patrol agent Jose Compean was released from the Elkton Federal Prison in Elkton, Ohio.
Former agent Ignacio Ramos was released about five hours later from the Phoenix Federal Prison in Phoenix, Ariz.
Ramos and Compean will officially be released from Federal Bureau of Prison custody on March 20th, but on Tuesday both were allowed to rejoin their families.
They had been in prison since January 2007.
Ramos and Compean were in prison for shooting drug smuggler Osvaldo Aldrete Davila and then trying to cover it up.
On President Bush’s last day in office, Jan. 19, 2009, he commuted the sentences of the two former Border Patrol agents.
KFOX has a crew in Phoenix covering the reunion and we will have much more on KFOX News at Six, KFOX News at Nine, and kfoxtv.com.
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Doctor Bulldog & Ronin 
17 February, 2009 at 11:44 am
They should be compensated for their needless troubles.
17 February, 2009 at 1:22 pm
Yes Apalled they should be compensated. They should never have been put in prison and found guilty just by the word of a drug dealer!!!!
17 February, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Bush should have comuitted their sentence the day it was given.
17 February, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Irish: As much as I was for Bush, I did hear that the prosecuting attorney on this case was a friend of his.
18 February, 2009 at 2:03 am
One more thing Bush did right. Better late than never?
18 February, 2009 at 3:17 am
These men were victims of politics. It’s good that justice has finally be somewhat served, but they have still lost their jobs, the time with their families, and are now targets of illegals and their supporters nationwide.