I am not suggesting the Border Patrol are heartless killers Quite the opposite.

I have several friends who are BP agents in the Laredo sector and they're fine people with a thankless job.

You are absolutely correct about the lives saved and they are to be commended for their efforts.

The facts don't support your claim that 40%-60% are criminals

Border patrol agents say up to 15% of immigrants arrested have a criminal past. – SOURCE KOLD-TV Tucson Az

I believe the focus on Immigration should be opposite what you suggest.

We know why they come here. The majority to work, send money home to their families, and before people got stupid after 9/11, returning home several times a year, and finally permanently.

Most of the illegal entrants come from poor states in the Southern part of the country. Farmers have been put out of business by our agricultural subsidies.

Men like Rivera come here to earn money to build homes back in Mexico, start businesses and prepare for their futures there.

If you'll look at progress Calderon has made in just these past two years, building upon what Fox began, you can see changes happening, but happening slowly. It is impossible to change 76 years of a quasi democratic government in one or two 6 year election cycles.

And it is even more difficult to make people realize the changes that are happening when you pick up the paper ( or in my case, read it online) and read the stupid bigoted comments by others.

You guys think you are the first line in protecting America, but you're not.

Each time I make a trip to Monterrey and back, or further south, there are Drug Interdiction Teams with numerous checkpoints. They do a good job at what they do.

It is not in the best interests of the cartels to have anything happen that would cause a lockdown of the border and shut off their pipeline to the north. And these guys do control for the most part who and what crosses.

Although the Mexican Constitution is much like ours in many ways, including search and seizure, it's ignored. These guys do their job and aren't burdened by Miranda Warnings, probable cause etc. If you are on a Federal highway, that is their probable cause.

Hey, laugh if you want to, but dammnit, it works!

The corruption will end of we've known it here eventually, although there will always be corruption of sorts, the same as in Washington DC.

I've seen it myself already down here. The purges in the Police departments here. It's getting harder and harder to bribe a traffic cop anymore.

But to your original point about the chest not being the back.

Corbett fired while pushing Domínguez-Rivera to the ground.

The bullet that killed Domínguez-Rivera entered the left side of his chest, passed downward through his heart and liver, and settled in the right lower abdomen, according to an autopsy report by the Cochise County Medical Examiner's Office.

He was shot from between 3 inches and 2 1/2 feet, according to Arizona Department of Public Safety lab information included in the report.

That is what I based my comment on. Corbett had the guy, who was a foot shorter and whom he outweighed by 100 pounds, under control.

Whether he had a rock in his hand, which is doubtful, is, at this point, not an issue. He would not have posed a threat to Corbett.

Based on the evidence, the testimony of the eyewitnesses and the fact that Corbett changed his story with his buddies to match the evidence as things went along, I believe the guy should be convicted.

And before you and others come back with the fact that the eyewitnesses were illegal and related to one another, consider their possible mindset.

They've just witnessed their brother murdered. They are under apprehension. They have no idea that this thing will go in the direction it went. The last thing that is happening is them sitting there getting their stories straight.

I know you are associated with CBP in some manner, and I appreciate the time you take to have this debate.

But there are bad apples in every bunch, which reflects on the groups as a whole. Corbett is one of these in my opinion.

I think you folks in Arizona are the ones biased since an impartial jury cannot be seated.

With luck the feds will step in and nail this bastard with a Federal Civil Rights violation.

There are a bunch of us pushing for that