Border Agent Charged in Shooting Crossing Illegal

(Photo: Reuters) Perhaps it is time that the United States pass a “Castle Law” for the United States. That anyone caught crossing illegally into the country be presumed to come and do harm. That the use of deadly force will be presumed as only a defense and that the one crossing has come across to do harm. Let’s put an end to this type of nonsense.

You have seen it before. A man picks up a rock and the assumption is… they can’t shoot me because I don’t have a gun. If he doesn’t fire I will bash in his skull. Another border agent has been charged with homicide for shooting and killing an illegal who was just crossing over into the United States. From Reuters.

BISBEE, Arizona (Reuters) - A U.S. Border Patrol agent must stand trial for murder in the shooting of a Mexican man trying to enter the United States, an Arizona judge ruled Monday in a case that drew criticism from Mexico.

Agent Nicholas Corbett was charged in April with four counts of homicide in the January 12 shooting of Francisco Dominguez Rivera shortly after he crossed the border illegally on a stretch of desert between Douglas and Naco.

Cochise County Justice of the Peace David Morales ruled the evidence supported lesser charges of second-degree murder, but threw out charges of first-degree murder, which supposes premeditation.

There have been a increasing number of attacks on agents. Each situation is a potential risk to their own lives. And of course the Mexican government is complaining that it wasn’t justified to use that much force.

Following the killing, Mexico’s Foreign Ministry complained of “disproportionate violence” and instructed the Mexican Embassy in Washington to investigate the circumstances.

Last year, border police captured 1.1 million undocumented immigrants crossing over the border from Mexico and recorded a soaring number of attacks on agents.

Lawyers for Corbett argue he shot Dominguez Rivera in self-defense after he was threatened with a rock.

Pass the Castle Law for the citizens who live along the border and the agents that work there. Seal the borders and let those who seek to come here illegally realize the extreme risk that crossing could involve.

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