Border agent charged with murder

The government is doing their best to intimidate the U.S. border patrol.

Here we go again...

Trespassers Will Be Shot

That simple. =o)

Here we go again...

The correct procedure:

Pardon

Reinstate

Promote ahead of peers

...and for extra yumminess, fire the next higher in the chain of command who assisted in the arrest and prosecution, and put this hero in his place.

Well, what are they supposed to do? Ask them nicely if they could please not enter our country illegally as it causes problems? Jeez, the government should have the same rights to protect its properties as private citizens do.

Why would anybody want to belong to this organization? Betrayed by your leadership, forsaken by your government … why would you even try to do your job, just go through the motions and retire after 20 years.

Sounds like a righteous shooting to me!

I thing all trespassers onto posted property should be shot...

Semper Fi

If our brave Border Agents are not allowed to kill - why do they have guns? Shouldn’t we just arm them with wet noodles or something? What has happened to my America???

The worst job in the world. Trying to stop illegal border crossers while your Commander in Chief is waving them in.

The sorry bast*rds! Did someone surrender to Mexico when I wasn't looking? It sure seems like they are running America these days. I'm so sick of America's first Mexican President, George W. Bush. I wish he would resign. I'm sorry I ever voted for him. Twice! My uncles didn't die fighting for America just to turn it over to Mexico!!

I love our President and there are few things I disagree with him on, however, his handling of the US border crisis is one of them.

There’s a problem here and clear thinking people better start demanding the government cut the bullshit once and for all and come up with some real answers. We put law enforcement on our border for a specific purpose and then the government un-officially tells illegals to keep crossing the border it’s ok with them. Then when a situation like this one happens the Border Agent goes to prison,maybe for life.If I was a Border Agent I’d run as far and as fast as I could when I saw illegals crossing the border because no question these guys are in a lose-lose situation !!!

I agree with you. What is the problem here? Isn’t it odd they can arrest, charge, indict and put in jail these border agents; but we have all of this crime from the illegals. Makes sense doesn’t it? Not

This is crazy, the decision to prosecute is based on a video from a camera TWO MILES AWAY and since the DA can't see the agent being threatened with a rock they decide to file charges.

What the hell is going on that we are sending people to protect the border and when they do we send them to prison??? This has got to stop. If they want to impeach Bush, this is the reason to do it.

Why is Bush providing protection of UNLAWFUL criminal immigrants who try to enter the USofA via Mexico by prosecuting Border Agents who are doing their jobs?

Why is he touting an Amnesty Bill that will provide more Border Agents if he's going to allow Border Agents to be prosecuted for doing their jobs?

SHOOT TO KILL AND WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE COLLATERAL DAMAGE, BUT YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO BREAK A LAW TO ENTER THE USofA!

There is a lawful way and an unlawful way to enter the USofA. You choose the unlawful way and you become a TARGET. You choose the lawful way and you become a green card holder.

Take your pick and live with the consequences!

How does a county prosecutor get jurisdiction over federal agents?

The person who doesn’t have his friends backs can certainly expect that one day they won’t have HIS back...

Apparently this agent had been back on duty but has now been charged...... From another article dated 3/26/07

Border Patrol agent's account of shooting doesn't match evidence

western news

Monday, March 26, 2007
A U.S. Border Patrol agent's account of what led him to shoot and kill an unarmed illegal entrant in January doesn't match witness testimony or forensic evidence, records released Monday by the Cochise County Attorney's office show.
The documents appear to support the claims of witnesses, including family members of Francisco Javier Dominguez-Rivera, 22, of Puebla, Mexico, who have said the agent already had a gun in his right hand when he drove up to them in a Border Patrol vehicle the afternoon of Jan. 12 about 150 yards north of the border between Bisbee and Douglas. The area is southeast of the Paul Spur Lime plant and Arizona 80 and is routinely used for smuggling of both people and drugs.
The witnesses said the agent ordered them to the ground and had switched the gun from his right to left hand as he physically pushed Dominguez-Rivera, to the ground. That is when they said the gun fired.
The agent, Nicholas Corbett, has not cooperated with investigators. However, he reportedly told colleagues on the day of the shooting that he was in pursuit of three members of a larger group of illegal border crossers and had moved to intercept them in his vehicle. He exited the vehicle with his gun drawn and spotted a man at the rear of his vehicle with a rock in his hand.
When the man made a motion as if he were about to throw the rock, Corbett said he raised his weapon and fired a single round.
The bullet that killed Dominguez-Rivera entered the left side of his chest, passed through his heart and liver and exited the abdomen a couple of inches to the right of Dominguez-Rivera's navel, according to an autopsy report by the Cochise County medical examiner's office that was released along with hundreds of other pages of documents related to the shooting investigation.
Cochise County Attorney Ed Rheinheimer said he has not yet decided whether the agent will face charges, noting that that decision will not be made until he's had a chance to review a video of the incident captured by a Border Patrol surveillance camera.
That videotape is in the hands of the FBI, he said, where it is undergoing "video enhancement."
Corbett has returned to active duty since the incident, Border Patrol officials said.

Then here is another story from just a few days ago of another BP Agent shooting to death another illegal last month... It has a video with it that apparently shows the illegal attempting to throw a rock at the agent.....

Video link in Post #7

How does a county prosecutor get jurisdiction over federal agents?

Ever since murder was a crime under state laws. Couple that with the fact that the Policy of the Border Patrol is to run and hide, the agents have no protection.

I think the Federal government has to make it clear that illegally entering the country and refusing to surrender when caught may result in a dirt nap.

I haven’t studied this one yet.

Agents: No confidence in border chief
WashingtonTimes ^ | 4/23/07

Looks as if the illegal was attempting to throw something at the agent’s vehicle.

for later

The witnesses said the agent ordered them to the ground and had switched the gun from his right to left hand as he physically pushed Dominguez-Rivera, to the ground. That is when they said the gun fired.

Also, that statement is an obvious fabrication since the deceased was standing when shot.

It seems that this country is being run by the Mexican Government. They complain and a Border patrol Agent has to be nailed to the cross.

They couldnt give me that job for twice what they pay and if I took it they would find me asleep in a patrol car somewhere. I wouldnt get anywhere near any place where I might possibly come across an illegal. This is one job where you cant win.

I agree... even if this were true and I do not believe it is, so what? I don’t care. KILL anything that tries to sneak into my Nation... they will stop trying!

LLS

I agree. On the border, Bush is a complete and utter failure... for America. I support him, but I can disagree when he is wrong. On immigration... he is WRONG!

LLS

I have freaking had it over this BS. We *have* to do something.

What BP agent in their right mind would even have a gun when on the border?

We are surrenduring and not even being ALLOWED to fire a shot!

BTTT

The government sure is going after the BP agents. If they do their job, they can be assured of getting charged with crimes that carry long prison terms even if the government has to manufacture the evidence. The message - give safe passage to drug dealers, terrorists and other scum. And yes, these criminals then also get rewarded with huge sums through lawsuits or confiscation of property of legal Americans. What a sick nation we have become.

The only way this will change is for the BP not to show up tommorrow and have it reported as such...to much of a personal risk to work.

Here is a more detailed article about this from the Arizona Daily Star Gazer.

Border Patrol agent who shot illegal entrant charged with murder
www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/179757

President Bush and Johnny Sutton must be having quite a chuckle over this.

Great, damned if you do and damned if you dont.Im so pissed off at this shi .What the hell can we do about this.Another agent will get railroaded and all the money and high powered lawyers wont keep this man out of jail.This govt is corrupt to the hilt and I mean all of it.

Our laws mean absolutely nothing to the enemies within our government. Congress must act now.

Folks, this one may be an actual bad apple.

Border Patrol video and the coroner’s forensic evidence indicate that this was not a good shoot. The agent changed his original story to match the evidence at the scene.

Johnny Sutton is not on this case.

It happens and the story didn’t say much.

Within 30 yrs the latinos & Muslims will dictate this gov unless we take to the streets & show we still have some balls. I doubt that “whitie” will do it before it’s too late. Kiss it all goodby. Alexander Tyler had it correct. What a wonderful life I had growing up in the greatest nation on this planet. If any wants to preserve it then kick these aliens out & this corrupt “Two-Party Cartel”.

The illegal was on his knees in front of the agent when he was shot, according to the coroner’s report.

My uncles didn't die fighting for America just to turn it over to Mexico!!

I just posted a similar sentence on another thread. And on another note, if it's not illegal to cross the border why is it illegal to shoot someone?

Yes, this particular story (AP/Yahoo) is exremely sparse.

It seems that this country is being run by the Mexican Government. They complain and a Border patrol Agent has to be nailed to the cross.

I've noticed that before. Weird, isn't it?

what a great job, DO NOTHING, and in 20 years get rewarded for it.

And I forgot to add, shouldn't the BP's be awarded for (alleged) illegal behavior? I thought that's what government's into these days, rewarding lawbreakers.

They want a border patrol in name only and these agents actually doing their jobs are just not cooperating... /s

Beats the hell of doing your job and spending the next 25 years in prison.

Think I will apply. Party for 20 years and sit back and watch them run the border.

From the smirk on Juan Hernandez what ever’s face every time they have him on Fox and other shows, I think you are correct.