By Nancy Matthis at ADMC

The federal judge in the trial of US Border Patrol agent Nicholas Corbett just declared a mistrial. Jurors were hopelessly deadlocked.

An earlier article gave extensive details about this case. Basically, Corbett apprehended a small group of illegal aliens entering the United States in the Tucson, Arizona sector. One of them picked up a rock and threatened to smash Corbett in the head. Corbett was alone, while the alien group comprised three young men and a woman. Corbett shot his assailant in self-defense, killing him.

Two things were particularly egregious about this case. First, our country allowed the Mexican government to sequester the three remaining illegal aliens and coach them in manufacturing and coordinating accounts of the event favorable to their purposes, before they were questioned by our law enforcement personnel. This is totally contrary to accepted procedures for getting at the truth, which require immediate separation of the criminals so that their testimony can be compared for discrepancies.

Second, our government brought in a federal prosecutor to take the case against our own border patrol agent, instead of leaving the affair in the hands of the state, where the alleged crime was committed.

From Comcast News:

Corbett was charged with second-degree murder, manslaughter and negligent homicide in the January 2007 death of 22-year-old Francisco Javier Dominguez Rivera of Puebla, Mexico….

Corbett testified that Dominguez was going to smash his head with a rock and he fired in self-defense.

Dominguez’s two brothers testified that he was surrendering and was shot without provocation….

The Border Patrol’s chief deputy patrol agent in the Tucson sector, Robert Boatright, said Corbett had only a few seconds to make a decision concerning Dominguez.

“Law enforcement officers make critical decisions every day….”

A second trial date has been set for April, but that may change due to scheduling conflicts with the attorneys involved.

In case after case, it seems as if our federal government is an advocate for Mexico, against its own citizens and law officers.

• Former U.S. Border Patrol Agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean remain in prison.
• Former U.S. Border Patrol Agent Gary Brugman served two years in federal prison for allegedly violating the civil rights of an illegal alien caught entering the U.S. at the Mexican border.
• Texas Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez was sentenced to one year plus one day in prison for allegedly injuring two Mexican illegal aliens in a van. These injuries supposedly occurred when Hernandez shot out the tires of the van as the illegals attempted to run over him.
• U.S. Border Patrol Agent David Sipe was convicted of criminal felony charges for hitting illegal alien Jose Guevara while the suspect was resisting arrest and struggling with the officer. (Fortunately, that 2001 conviction was overturned by an administrative law decision by the Dallas Region of the Merit Systems Protection Board.)

The cases reveal a pattern of U.S. prosecutors working with the Mexican government to locate deported illegal aliens, offer lucrative incentives with our tax money to solicit their cooperation against our law officers, and provide coaching to create testimony favorable to a conviction. (In the Brugman case, the criminal’s relative subsequently received expensive chemotherapy treatment in the U.S.) In every case, the resources of our federal government are brought to bear to override the best interests of the affected states and localities.

Our border patrol agents are the first line of defense in the effort to secure our borders. We need a federal government that will support them. And we need to stop pandering to a Mexican government that regards our country as a cash cow to be milked by an illegal alien invasion comprising 10% of their population to support their own failing systems.