Murder trial begins in AZ for illegal immigrant shooting

Feb 262008
 
 26/02/2008  Posted by PMC at 07:59 on 26/02/2008 1 Response »
Murder trial begins in AZ for illegal immigrant shooting

A murder trial tinged with international controversy that begins this week will determine whether a U.S. Border Patrol agent was justified in shooting an illegal immigrant near the Mexican border. Jury selection will start Tuesday in federal court in the case of Agent Nicholas Corbett, who is charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and negligent homicide in the Jan. 12, 2007, death of Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera. Corbett’s lawyers contend that he acted lawfully in self-defense after being threatened; prosecutors contend the shooting wasn’t justified. The case stands in contrast to that of El Paso, Texas, agents and convicted felons Ignacio ….Read More

In the line of duty – Border Patrol officer killed by fleeing vehicles

Jan 192008
 
 19/01/2008  Posted by PMC at 19:52 on 19/01/2008 Comments Off
In the line of duty - Border Patrol officer killed by fleeing vehicles

YUMA, Az — A Border Patrol officer was run over and killed on Saturday as he attempted to lay a spike strip to stop a speeding Hummer in the sand dunes of Imperial County. Authorities in El Centro and Yuma, Ariz. said the agent was killed in the line of duty along the Mexican border in the Algodones sand dunes, 110 miles east of San Diego. Federal agents from San Diego rushed to the area to oversee the investigation. The California Highway Patrol closed freeway ramps at Grey’s Well Road, between Yuma and El Centro, but traffic on Interstate 8 ….Read More

Plans for border fence draw fire

Apr 292006
 
 29/04/2006  Posted by PMC at 17:25 on 29/04/2006 Comments Off

TIJUANA, Mexico, – Hurling himself over a steel fence into the no-man’s-land between Mexico and California, an undocumented migrant sprints across a narrow strip lit by harsh arc lights and watched over by video cameras on tall posts. Before he can shin up a second barrier of tall concrete pillars topped with seismic sensors and a layer of steel mesh more than an arm’s-length wide, U.S. Border Patrol agents close in fast and arrest him . That scene is repeated dozens of times each day along a 14-mile stretch of state-of-the-art fencing separating San Diego, California, from Tijuana, Mexico, that ….Read More

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