The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs is planning to investigate whether the Mexican government had undue influence in the case of former US Border Patrol Agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos. Conservative Culture has commentary and the media report.

Yes, this is what we’ve been asking for and we hope they do a very thorough job. But there is cause for concern regarding this investigation. The US House Committee on Foreign Affairs is now chaired by California Democrat Tom Lantos. I found a web site that gives him a career grade of “F” regarding his efforts to curb illegal immigration and end rewards for such behavior. Check the site out (betterimmigration.com) when you get a chance and see the grades for others, like your representative.

So we’ve got a pending investigation, by a committee lead by a Liberal, who is the type that has made every Border Patrol Agent’s job harder. This could become nothing but a smoke screen, to cover for the Bush Administration in the name of keeping Mexico happy. Because we know this case has been very shady and that it has connections to President Bush all over it. But a Liberal Democrat would never want to tick off Mexico.

So I hope they do a good job with this, but I can’t say I have great confidence that the truth will come to light. I mean I don’t have great confidence that the findings by the overall committee will show the truth, however we do have some players on our side in the mix. Congressmen Tom Tancredo, Dana Rohrabacher and Ted Poe are all members of the committee. I’ve got a feeling they will be telling the truth about things as they always have been. So this is probably as good as could be hoped for.

It all depends on the actual makeup of the investigative team. Hopefully, the Liberal chairman won’t stack the deck in a fashion that plays against Compean and Ramos. Liberal nut cases like Diane E. Watson are also on that committee.