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uncan Hunter
H . & . f l o u s e o f THepresentatioes
50th Bistrict, (California
September 22, 2017

President Donald J. Trump

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President:

As demonstrated with your pardon of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, you have the authority and discretion as
President to take this action when warranted. It is for this reason that I wanted to bring your attention to
two pardon requests that are currently awaiting review at the Department of Justice in the Office of the
Pardon Attorney. These pertain to former Border Patrol agents Ignacio Ramos, Jr. and Jose Compean,
both of whom received mandatory jail sentences in 2006 of more than 10 years.

The charges for which these federal officers were ultimately convicted related to an incident
where multiple Border Patrol agents were in pursuit of a van that had entered the US illegally in an area
very well known for illicit drug smuggling activity. The driver of the van, later identified as an illegal
alien named Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, continued to evade the agents and drove at a dangerous high rate of
speed to a levee where he could cross back into Mexico. Agent Compean was the first to reach the van
where he began pursuing Aldrete-Davila on foot. At some point a hand-to-hand struggle ensued and
Aldrete-Davila managed to bring Agent Compean to the ground.

As Agent Ramos approached the area, he heard shots fired but his view of the altercation was
initially obscured by the landscape. Aldrete-Davila broke free and both agents fired at him because he
turned back towards them before he began to run towards the border. It was later discovered that when
Ramos discharged his weapon, he hit Aldrete-Davila in the buttocks. At the time of the shooting,
however, it was not apparent that Aldrete- Davila had been injured as he was able to escape and run
across the international border to a waiting vehicle. After the incident it was discovered that the van
contained more than 740 pounds of marijuana and, despite this, Aldrete-Davila received immunity from
the smuggling charges in exchange for providing testimony against Agents Ramos and Compean.
Aldrete-Davila was later arrested at the US border for trying to again smuggle a large quantity of drugs
into the US and received a nine year prison sentence.

Mr. President, Agents Compean and Ramos' sentences were commuted in 2009 by then President
Bush, but I believe that they deserve every consideration for a pardon due to the circumstances of the
incident and I respectfully request that you instruct the Office of the Pardon Attorney to provide their
cases full and fast attention. Thank you in advance fopytfEr consideration of this issue.

With best wishes.

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Sinderely,

DuntmKHunter
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