Would Military Use Be Better Option?

This incident in the article below may not have
happened if the military were used to protect
our borders. For one thing it would send a signal
to those that want to take advantage of the current
situation of limited personal to do the job. If we are
going to protect our borders then we must forget
about being non-chalant about it and stop trying to
uphold an image that we are such a free society.
Do you have an opinion on this issue? Let's hear it.


What's clear from the surveillance tape is that Nicholas Corbett wheeled his Border Patrol truck around and cut off the four immigrants who had been trudging through the desert less than 100 yards north of the border.But the tape does not show what happened next on that January afternoon. According to court records, Corbett told supervisors that he had killed Francisco Javier Dominguez-Rivera, 22, with a single gunshot after the immigrant raised a rock to throw at him.

But the other immigrants — two brothers and a sister-in-law of Dominguez-Rivera — said that their relative had been empty-handed and that Corbett had pushed him to his knees before shooting him.The Cochise County prosecutor has charged Corbett, 39, with murder — an unusual step, especially in a conservative county long affected by illegal immigration. The judge could charge Corbett with a lesser count such as manslaughter at a preliminary hearing scheduled for August.

"We came to the conclusion that this is not a legally justified shooting," said County Attorney Ed Rheinheimer, who says he has been inundated with angry e-mails since filing the charges in late April. "It's an incident that has nothing to do with politics, nothing to do with the immigration issue."But in southeastern Arizona — where homeowners find immigrants hiding in their backyards and where Border Patrol checkpoints proliferate — illegal immigration permeates every aspect of life and colors how some judge the shooting. The one thing people agree on is that the case demonstrates how the border has become more perilous for those trying to sneak across it and for the agents assigned to catch them.

Assaults on agents are up 10% in southeastern Arizona over last year, and though the number is holding steady nationwide, the Border Patrol says attacks have become more violent. Officers say immigrants are more likely to run and throw rocks or, as happened near Yuma, Ariz., last month, Molotov cocktails.The Border Patrol has seized nearly twice as much cocaine this year as last. The crossing is riskier for illegal immigrants too. Deaths among crossers are up 21% over last year. Bandits watch border-crossing routes, robbing immigrants and sometimes kidnapping entire groups. And Mexican border towns have been racked by drug violence that U.S. authorities fear could spread across the line.





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