No ‘Promise’ on Border Agent Pardons: Bush
How can Bush pardon Libby and not the border agents? Leaders from both parties agree that drug smugglers should be in jail, not border agents. If our country is attacked President Bush is fully to blame for his lack of enforcing our immigration laws and sending a message to border agents not to do their job!
NM-President Bush sharply challenged critics of his stalled immigration-overhaul efforts on Thursday, suggesting that failure to pass a guest-worker program could trigger a labor shortage in the United States.
At a town-hall style meeting, Bush also rebuffed a question about whether he would consider pardoning two Border Patrol agents in prison for the cover-up of the shooting of a drug trafficker in Texas.
“No, I won’t make you that promise,” Bush told a woman who asked about a possible pardon. Many Republicans in Congress have said the men should not have been convicted and have criticized the federal U.S. attorney for even prosecuting the agents.
