Deportation program a weapon against lawbreakers in the US illegally
Mike McWilliams • MMcWilliams@CITIZEN-TIMES.com • published September 21, 2008 12:15 am

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HENDERSONVILLE – Sheriff Rick Davis can’t forget a shooting two years ago in which a man killed his estranged wife and injured their child.

Six years before the fatal shooting, the suspect, Joel Zelaya Rivera, was charged with assaulting a family member in Texas, Davis said. Two years after that, Rivera, who was in the country illegally, was charged with assaulting a female in Henderson County.


A program now in place in Henderson County might have prevented the murder.

“Had 287(g) been in place either in Texas or here on the first arrest, I feel very confident that homicide would not have occurred,â€