Jim Gilchrist, president of the Minuteman Project, Inc. and Raymond Herrera, the
Project’s national rally spokesperson, made the very first presentation of their
organization’s flag to Joe Loya, the father-in-law of Border Patrol Agent Ignacio
Ramos, at a Murietta-Temecula Republican Assembly ceremony in Temecula, Ca. last
Friday.

The blue and white flag consists of the silhouette of a 1700’s minuteman standing
with musket against a blue background and surrounded by 13 white stars.

Former U.S. Border Patrol Agent Ignacio “Nacho” Ramos and his partner, Jose
Compean, were imprisoned last January to terms of 11 and 12 years, respectively,
for the non-fatal shooting in 2005 of Osvaldo Aldrete Davila.

The agents shot Davila in the buttocks as he was transporting more than 750
pounds of marijuana into the United States through the Texas border town of
Fabens, Texas.  The drug smuggler was granted full immunity by federal prosecutor
Johnny Sutton to testify against the agents.

This case has caused national outrage, and dozens of congressmen as well as the
Minuteman Project, are publicly insisting President Bush grant an immediate
pardon to the two law enforcement officers.

“The Minuteman Project goes further than the congressional members,” said Jim
Gilchrist as he spoke to an audience of about 100 persons, “with demands for not
just a pardon, but an exoneration of any wrongdoing by the agents.”

“In addition,” Gilchrist said, “the Minuteman Project is urging compensatory
financial damages to be paid to the families of the two agents who have been
convicted and imprisoned under questionable circumstances.”

The Minuteman Project is also seeking similar exoneration for Texas Sheriff’s
Deputy Guillermo Hernandez, who was recently sentenced to 366 days in prison for
a similar incident.

Joe Loya said he would either keep the flag in his custody until  his son-in-law
is released, or he would give it to Agent Ramos to hang on the wall of his room
at the Federal Corrections facility in Phoenix, Az.

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