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A Mexican teenager who pleaded guilty to killing Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas last year was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison. Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez, 17, was sentenced in federal court in downtown San Diego. About 100 Border Patrol agents in green uniforms filled the courtroom and lined the hallway outside to observe the court proceeding. Rosas, 30, was killed July 23 while on patrol near Shockey Truck Trail in Campo. About 9 p.m. that night, he was heard on his radio saying that he was tracking a group of illegal immigrants near the fence that marks the...

LAREDO, Texas — A Border Patrol agent shot and killed an unarmed man on the banks of the Rio Grande following a foot chase and a struggle, authorities said Friday. Border Patrol agents found several men carrying five bundles of marijuana, weighing about 260 pounds, onto the river bank in Laredo near a residential neighborhood late Wednesday night, said Laredo police spokesman Joe Baeza Jr. The men scattered when the agents approached. An agent caught up with one of the alleged smugglers, and the pair struggled in the brush before the agent shot the man once in the chest,...

Former Border Patrol Agent Ignacio Ramos says new evidence has surfaced since he went to prison over the 2005 shooting of a Mexican drug smuggler and he wants a retrial. "I know I'm rolling the dice," said Ramos, adding that a new trial could result in additional charges. Ramos said his attorney would file the documents within two months. He offered no details on any new evidence, the Houston Chronicle reported Monday. Ramos and another convicted former agent, Jose Compean, were freed Feb. 17, 2008, weeks after then-President George W. Bush commuted their sentences. Ramos returned to El Paso for...

While en route to El Paso they stopped to sleep at a a quinta and when the awoke this morning all the gifts were stolen.

A teenage boy pleaded guilty in federal court Friday to fatally shooting Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas during a robbery attempt at the U.S.-Mexico border. Christian Daniel Castro-Alvarez, 17, admitted to illegally crossing into the United States near Campo with a group of others July 23 and luring Rosas from his patrol vehicle to rob him, according to the plea agreement.

SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO Anti-illegal immigration groups plan to hold a fund-raiser for a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed in Campo earlier this summer. The fund-raiser for Agent Robert Rosas is part of the San Juan Capistrano Tea Party scheduled to take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sep. 12 at the Cook-La Novia Park at 31611 La Novia. The fund-raiser goes to benefit Rosas' family, event coordinators said. Tawnya Wojciechowski, a San Juan Capistrano resident who is coordinating the Tea Party, said Britt Craig is helping coordinate Rosas' fund-raiser and moment of silence.

Robert Rosas had two dreams for his children. One was to dance at his daughter's wedding. The other was to see his son graduate from the Border Patrol. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ About 4500 people were crowded into the school where the Memorial was held. A caravan of Law Enforcement Agency vehicles left from San Diego beginning at 6 AM and stretched over two miles. A cross has been placed at the location where he was killed. Investigation update: The FBI and American Law Enforcement do not think the Mexican Government has the right guys. Anyone who wants to see where the cross...

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CAMPO - A U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot in Campo near the border with Baja California Thursday night. The shooting was reported about 9:15 p.m. near the border on Shockey Truck Trail southeast of the San Diego Sheriff Department's Campo substation. Four engines, paramedics, and a medical helicopter were dispatched to the area, but the agent was declared dead at the scene, according to Cal Fire Battalion Chief Nick Schuler. Police report that the victim was shot in the head.

A border patrol officer and his mother, both from Metairie, were indicted today on federal charges of conspiracy and transporting and harboring undocumented foreigners. Customs and border agent Merlin Mireles, 39, and Gloria Mireles, 66, allegedly harbored a Mexican woman who was in the United States illegally and her two children from June 2004 to February 2005. Merlin Mireles, who was assigned to the Port of Progreso in Texas, drove the woman and children from Texas to Metairie, according to the indictment. Mireles and his mother provided housing for them in exchange for housekeeping work by the woman. An announcement...

<p>An agent with the U.S. Border Patrol shot at two robbery suspects who tried to run him over in their car early Tuesday morning, killing one.</p> <p>Border Patrol spokesman Ben Vik says the agent happened upon a robbery in progress at a Circle K convenience store in Yuma at about 1 a.m.</p>

A man jailed in Mexicali on suspicion of running down a Border Patrol agent in January, killing him, has been released without charges, it was reported yesterday. The Attorney General's Office in Baja California confirmed to The Associated Press that Jesús Navarro Montes had been released from a Mexicali jail. No explanation for his release was given. Navarro was arrested Jan. 22 by Mexican authorities. He was accused of driving a Hummer carrying drugs on Jan. 19 near Yuma, Ariz. Border Patrol Agent Luis Aguilar was placing spike strips on a road to stop the Hummer and a second vehicle...

DENVER—Jurors acquitted a federal agent on charges he illegally got information from a restricted criminal database that ended up in a campaign ad slamming Gov. Bill Ritter. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Cory Voorhis had been charged with exceeding his authorized access to government computers, and prosecutors argued he had acted for political purposes during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign. He faced up to three years in prison if convicted. A federal court jury took only about two hours to return the not-guilty verdict Wednesday. The ad criticized Ritter for plea bargains with illegal immigrants when he was a prosecutor. Voorhis...

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TUCSON — A jury was selected Tuesday to hear Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett’s murder trial in U.S. District Court. Opening arguments and testimony are expected to start today. Corbett is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and negligent homicide for shooting a Mexican named Francisco Dominguez-Rivera who illegally entered the United States near Naco last year in January. Activists representing anti-illegal immigration groups, as well as humanitarian and civil rights groups, expressed their views in displays outside the courthouse throughout the day Tuesday. Meanwhile, inside a courtroom, Judge David Bury, prosecutors and defense attorneys spent most of the day selecting...

PHOENIX (Reuters) - A U.S. Border Patrol agent went on trial on Tuesday in the killing of a Mexican man attempting to cross illegally into Arizona, a case closely watched by pro- and anti-illegal immigrant groups. Jury selection began in U.S. District Court in Tucson, Ariz., to decide the fate of agent Nicholas Corbett, who faces second-degree murder charges for killing Francisco Dominguez Rivera in the southern Arizona desert. Corbett, who has claimed through attorneys that he shot in self defense, is also charged with manslaughter and negligent homicide in connection with the January 12, 2007, incident. Dominguez Rivera, 22,...

MEXICO CITY A man suspected of running over and killing a U.S. border agent has been held over for trial in Mexico on migrant smuggling charges. The federal Attorney General's office announced late Sunday that a judge had ordered a trial for Jesus Navarro, 22. It did not say when his ruling was issued. The agency said officials also believe that Navarro ran over U.S. border agent Luis Aguilar, but are still gathering evidence in that case. Aguilar was previously sought in Mexico for allegedly smuggling migrants, and faces between six and 12 years in prison if convicted. Officials say...

A border agent laid down a spike strip in the road. Black Hummer driven by drug smuggler deliberately swerved, ran over, and killed the border agent. He fled into Mexico. The agent did not fire his weapon. .....more to follow

Should the former sheriff's deputy who shot at an SUV full of illegal immigrants be considered a hero or just a convict? POLL IS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PAGE, HALFWAY DOWN.

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Three Mexican minors detained in California on suspicion of smuggling drugs stole a U.S. Border Patrol car while still wearing handcuffs and drove it back across the border to Mexico. Police in the Mexican border city of Mexicali said on Tuesday the three boys had been driving a pick-up truck on a remote Californian highway when a Border Patrol agent stopped them. Suspicious they were carrying marijuana, he handcuffed them and put them in his patrol car while he searched their truck. "As the agent was doing his search, he left the vehicle running and the...