Thread: San Diego: Teen pleads guilty in July murder of border agent

Originally Posted by butterbean

Originally Posted by attorneyatlaw

Originally Posted by butterbean

Castro Alvarez faces a maximum of life in prison when he is sentenced Feb. 19.

Thats not enough. He should have gotten the death penalty. Now he gets to eat, sleep, watch tv and lounge around and it will cost taxayers thousands of dollars.

If you want the law to be followed, you should respect the law as well. It is well documented that convicted criminals UNDER 18 may not receive the death penalty no matter how heinous the crime may be.

But he is being charged as an adult. So wouldnt that make him eligible for the death sentence?

Exactly.

Mexican national pleads guilty to murdering U.S. Border Patrol agent
November 21, 3:00 PM
Orange County Homeland Security Examiner
Michael Phelps
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The southern border with Mexico can be a dangerous place and no one knows that better than the agents who patrol the fifteen the hundred mile strip that separates the two countries. Border patrol agent Robert Rosas was murdered by seventeen year old Mexican national named Christian Alvarez who had crossed illegally into the U.S. to commit a crime.

Alvarez's guilty plea ends the legal process in this particular case, but the murder of Rosas should be another wake up call to the Department of Homeland Security that the border is still much to porous. If a seventeen year old kid can shoot an agent with his own gun than how safe are we from smugglers and terrorists who could do even more grievous harm? One dead agent is bad enough, but if Mexican smugglers help al-Qaeda terrorists sneak a dirty bomb or even a nuke into San Diego...it would be what people call a game changer.

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Alvarez's guilty plea ends the legal process in this particular case, but the murder of Rosas should be another wake up call to the Department of Homeland Security that the border is still much to porous. If a seventeen year old kid can shoot an agent with his own gun than how safe are we from smugglers and terrorists who could do even more grievous harm? One dead agent is bad enough, but if Mexican smugglers help al-Qaeda terrorists sneak a dirty bomb or even a nuke into San Diego...it would be what people call a game changer.

Bingo! Anyone ever hear of "Jihadistas?" The IA's here are the WMD's. What if it gets to the point of the IA's going to malls to blow themselves up so thier families back home can get paid tens of thousands by Al Quaida? Might sound a bit far fetched now - but I bet it's coming soon.

Originally Posted by butterbean

Originally Posted by attorneyatlaw

Originally Posted by butterbean

Castro Alvarez faces a maximum of life in prison when he is sentenced Feb. 19.

Thats not enough. He should have gotten the death penalty. Now he gets to eat, sleep, watch tv and lounge around and it will cost taxayers thousands of dollars.

If you want the law to be followed, you should respect the law as well. It is well documented that convicted criminals UNDER 18 may not receive the death penalty no matter how heinous the crime may be.

But he is being charged as an adult. So wouldnt that make him eligible for the death sentence?

No. You have individuals who are charged as adults as young as 14 all the time. Despite, how heinous their crimes are, they cannot be given death if under 18.