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SENATE INVESTIGATES RAMOS AND COMPEAN CASE IN WASHINGTON

David Botsford (R), Counsel for Border Patrol Agent Ignacio Ramos, Luis Barker, Deputy Chief of the Office of Border Patrol (C) and T.J. Bonner, President of the Natinoal Border Patrol Council, testify before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the prosecution of border Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compena, in Washington on July 17, 2007. The two agents were prosecuted and incarcerated after allegedly shooting an unarmed drug smuggler during an altercation in February 2005. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)

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