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No third trial for BP agent in slaying

By Arthur H. Rotstein
The Associated Press
Tucson, Arizona | Published: 12.12.2008

A U.S. Border Patrol agent won't be tried for a third time in the shooting death of an illegal immigrant in the Southern Arizona desert last year, a top Cochise County prosecutor said Thursday.

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Human-rights activists [Mexican Reconquista menaces] also called for Corbett's prosecution.

"Quite frankly, I'm not surprised," said Pima County Legal Defender Isabel Garcia, a founder of the human-rights group Derechos Humanos. "This climate of impunity for Border Patrol agents and the attitude of total misinformation and lies about immigrants prevent, I think, any real justice."

In many ways, Garcia said, life for immigrants [illegal aliens... common criminals] in Arizona is not much different from what it was for black Americans during the pre-civil rights movement in the South.

"We have to continue to demand justice," she said. "We have to demand that the new U.S. attorney file a civil-rights lawsuit" against Corbett.

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