News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Agent who killed immigrant back on duty

Mar 27, 9:42 PM EDT
 By ARTHUR H. ROTSTEIN
Associated Press Writer

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- A U.S. Border Patrol agent who fatally shot an illegal immigrant in January has been returned to active duty although authorities were still determining Tuesday whether he should face criminal charges.

Agent Nicholas Corbett, assigned to the patrol's Naco station, returned to active duty about two weeks ago, said Jesus Rodriguez, a spokesman for the Border Patrol's Tucson sector.

Authorities said Corbett fatally shot Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera on Jan. 12 while trying to take Dominguez Rivera, his sister-in-law and his two brothers into custody near the Mexican border.

Xavier Rios, a Border Patrol national spokesman, said Corbett's return to work "doesn't mean he's been cleared.

"There's an investigation going on. The FBI is looking at the civil rights side of it, and Cochise County is looking at the criminal side," Rios added.

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