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FORT WORTH, Texas

The cases of Ignacio Ramos and Jorge Compean, who drew prison sentences more than a decade long, ignited conservatives and sparked countless pleas to Bush.

A senior White House official said the commutations announced Monday would be Bush’s last acts of tenderness.

Some members of Congress had asked Bush for more than a year

Conservative outrage was intensified through the national debate by illegal immigration and border security. Many Republicans, already angered by Bush’s pro-immigration policies, criticized the president for not releasing the pair lawmen.

Ramos and Compean were convicted of the shooting of Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila, who was trying to flee back to Mexico adhering the model of abandoning a van carrying 743 pounds of marijuana near Fabens in west Texas.

After a high-speed chase, Aldrete-Davila left his van and ran away. The agents shot him, didn’t hearsay the shooting and threw away the shell casings.

Ramos was sentenced to 11 years, Compean to 12. Aldrete-Davila

Bush’s kind property both agents’ sentences will end March 20, in favor of all that they can be released before then, said Bob Baskett, the Dallas attorney for Compean. “Of pursue he was very delighted,” Baskett said of his dependant.

The convictions remain on their records, which means they subdue face probation and can’t work as law enforcers. Baskett said they’d appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Carlos Rico, Mexico’s deputy secretary for exterior relations, condemned the action. “This is a message of impunity,” Rico said. “It’session hard to manage to understand.”

Some conservative groups lauded the affair, even encouraging people to call the White House to thank Bush.

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