Former border patrol agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean, whose imprisonment for shooting a drug smuggler spurred a protest on Capitol Hill, are on their way back home. President Bush commuted their sentences for shooting Osvaldo Aldrete-Davila and they are due to be released next month. Until then they will serve the remainder of their sentences in home confinement, according to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher’s office, which led the charge to pardon the men.

Rohrabacher’s spokeswoman, Tara Setmayer, who was so instrumental in fighting to win their release is on a plane with Ramos right now flying back to El Paso. I’ll give you more details as I learn them.

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