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 07, 2007

Border agent who killed migrant back on duty

Published: 03.07.2007

The Associated Press

A U.S. Border Patrol agent who fatally shot an illegal immigrant during a January confrontation has been returned to duty as prosecutors in Cochise County weigh possible criminal charges in the case.

The unidentified agent returned to full duty at the Naco station, Border Patrol spokesman Jesus Rodriguez said Monday. He would not say when the agent returned from administrative leave, routine after shooting incidents.

The agent shot and killed Francisco Javier Dominguez-Rivera, 22, of Puebla, Mexico, during a Jan. 12 confrontation just north of the U.S.-Mexico border, between Bisbee and Douglas.

The agent was responding to a call about a group of seven migrants who were crossing the desert, agents said. The agent detained six people without incident, but then started fighting with Dominguez-Rivera and eventually shot him.

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