Note from D.A. – We must be missing the outrage from Jerry Gonzalez, his bossman Sam Zamarripa and Teodoro Maus on the treatment of these two Americans…

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Justice: Border Patrol agent Ignacio Ramos is assaulted in jail as the federal case that put him and fellow agent Jose Alonso Compean in prison continues to unravel.

We could have predicted it, and we did. The feds should have seen it coming and taken precautions, but they didn’t. Compean and Ramos, convicted of obstruction of justice in the case of shooting an allegedly unarmed drug smuggler, Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, were each put in a general prison population not particularly fond of law enforcement of any kind.

Ramos was sent to a medium- to low-security federal facility in Yazoo City, Miss., and Compean is serving his sentence at the Elkton Federal Correctional Institution in Ohio. It must be a very low-security facility indeed for this to happen.

Saturday night, “America’s Most Wanted” did a piece on Ramos’ story. Later that evening, aware of his identity, five Hispanic inmates wearing steel-toe boots — probably illegal aliens — attacked Ramos while cussing him out in Spanish. They taunted him with the phrase “(expletive) la migra.” “Migra” roughly translates as “immigration,” and is slang for Border Patrol agent.

Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., a border security advocate and champion of the two agents, found the lack of federal protection for these agents as baffling as their prosecution for doing a job that put their lives at risk on a daily basis.

Commenting on the beating , he said: “Not only did the administration take the side of a foreign dope runner over the agents who stopped him from smuggling a load of drugs into the country . . . now they’ve failed to protect that agent while his case is on appeal.”

Grounds for that appeal certainly exist. One of the charges against Compean and Ramos was that they failed to report the Feb. 17, 2005, incident as part of their efforts to cover it up. But a previously unpublished internal Homeland Security Department memo discloses that seven Border Patrol agents, including Compean and Ramos, as well as two supervisors were at the scene.

The presence of the two supervisors at the scene explains why the two didn’t file a report. They didn’t feel they had to since their supervisors — Robert Arnold, a supervisory Border Patrol agent, and Jonathan Richards, a field operations supervisor — were there.

There is more…here.