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, April 18, 2007

Prosecutor to decide soon whether charges filed against agent

Apr 18, 4:23 AM EDT

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) -- A U.S. Border Patrol agent involved in the fatal shooting of an illegal immigrant near Douglas may find out whether he'll face criminal charges within two weeks, authorities said.

Cochise County Attorney Ed Rheinheimer said hopes to make a decision by April 27 in the case involving agent Nicholas Corbett, 39.

Rheinheimer's office is reviewing an enhanced video version of the incident from a Border Patrol surveillance camera that was sent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Rheinheimer's office viewed the original blurry digital video on compact disc but was hoping to see an enhanced version before deciding whether to press charges against Corbett, who shot and killed 22-year-old Francisco Javier Dominguez-Rivera, of Puebla, Mexico, on Jan. 12 about 150 yards north of the border between Bisbee and Douglas.

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