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 Editorials | Issues | January 2007 
Rallies Across the U.S. Urge President Bush to Pardon Heroic Mexican-American Border Patrol Agents
 USNewswire
| | Agent Jose Alonso Compean. (KFOX-TV) |
Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Alonso Compean have risked their lives to protect our borders from terrorists, drug smugglers and other illegal crossers. Instead of being praised for finding a smuggler's truck filled with drugs and attempting to apprehend the smuggler (who fled to Mexico), they were convicted of assault and sentenced to at least 11 years in prison.
"By not pardoning Ramos and Compean, President Bush is sending the wrong message to other border patrol agents. President Bush and Congress should also take a close look at Mexico's real political agenda before reforming immigration," says Yeh Ling-Ling, executive director of Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America (DASA).
On 7/7/06, Mexican-American Professor Armando Navarro of the University of California-Riverside, organizer of many pro-open border rallies, was quoted in the Los Angeles Times as saying, "A new majority is forming. Everything will change. The White House will be within our reach. We might have to change the name to the Brown House."
According to the 2000 Census, the U.S. population had increased by 13 percent since 1990, but those who identified themselves as Mexican had increased by 53 percent. If this trend continues, the majority of people in the U.S. - within a few decades - could very well be of Mexican descent. (More than half of the illegal aliens in the U.S. are from Mexico.)
"For the sake of all legal U.S. residents, Congress should adopt real, comprehensive immigration reform by using Mexico's legal immigration policy as a model and by demanding that our immigration laws be enforced just as strictly," Yeh adds. "Meanwhile, non-violent prison inmates and able-bodied welfare recipients should be put to work at jobs currently held by illegal immigrants."
Ms. Yeh has 10 years of prior experience preparing amnesty and other immigration applications. She is the author of an article entitled "Examine Mexico's Real Intent Before Reforming Immigration," published in the Harvard Law School's Record on Feb. 9, 2006. (That article is posted on http://www.diversityalliance.org)
Contact: Yeh Ling-Ling of Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America,
+1-510-915-4982 (cell)
SOURCE: Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America |
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