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PLEASE JOIN US FRIDAY, JULY 23, 2010, at 7PM, Upland - TO PAY TRIBUTE TO AGENT ROBERT ROSASAgent Robert "Rosas, 30, was shot four times in the head, once in the neck and three times in the torso. He was found near Campo in eastern San Diego County, without a pulse. His Border Patrol-issued gun was missing." "Christian Daniel Castro Alvarez admitted entering the United States illegally to rob a Border Patrol agent, the U.S. attorney's office said. Alvarez said he lured Rosas out of his car on the night of July 23 and struggled with him over a firearm."...

I believe that too many citizens — among them certain specific segments of the media and some politicians — lack respect for both our borders and for our nation’s Border Patrol Agents. There is a collective blindness to the realities of what our Border Patrol Agents face at the borders, both South and North. To paraphrase myself, our borders and our Border Patrol Agents get no respect. About 4,000 people packed a memorial service for Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas, who was shot and killed at approximately 9:15 p.m. on Thursday, July 23, 2009. Photo courtesy of Brad J. Mellon,...

Once again a family is separated by the broken system we call our national immigration policy. The family of US Border Patrol Agent Robert Wiley Rosas will no longer have their husband, father, son, or brother with them as he was senselessly murdered by illegal aliens crossing an unsecured border near San Diego, California. Agent Rosas (aged 30) leaves behind a wife and two young children. He had no choice about this separation. He was simply out doing the job that you and I hired him to do: That of defending the security of the borders of this nation. He...

Robert Rosas had two dreams for his children. One was to dance at his daughter's wedding. The other was to see his son graduate from the Border Patrol. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ About 4500 people were crowded into the school where the Memorial was held. A caravan of Law Enforcement Agency vehicles left from San Diego beginning at 6 AM and stretched over two miles. A cross has been placed at the location where he was killed. Investigation update: The FBI and American Law Enforcement do not think the Mexican Government has the right guys. Anyone who wants to see where the cross...

— A Border Patrol agent who was slain.... along the Mexican border was remembered Friday as a gregarious family man who dreamed that his 2-year-old son would follow in his footsteps. About 4,000 people packed a memorial service for Robert Rosas, 30, who was found dead with bullet wounds to his head and body on the night of July 23 in Campo, about 60 miles east of San Diego. Like many people raised in California's Imperial Valley, Rosas found a career in law enforcement.... A large screen flashed photos of Rosas with his family and in uniform as a high...

SAN DIEGO — The FBI is offering $10,000 for help finding the gun of a Border Patrol agent who was slain last week in a rugged area outside San Diego. The FBI says Rosas carried a black Heckler & Koch P2000, a .40-caliber gun. Mexican authorities have detained five men in connection with the case. They say one of them — 36-year-old Ernesto Parra Valenzuela — carried a 9 mm pistol when he was captured.

Ernesto Parra Valenzuela - Courtesy, Mexican Federal Police SAN DIEGO – A man arrested in San Jose after the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent has been charged with being in the country illegally after a previous deportation, authorities said Monday. Salvador Picaso-Ambriz, 39, of Mexico, was arrested at O'Connor Hospital on Friday at the request of federal authorities, San Jose police Sgt. Ronnie Lopez said. He appeared in federal court in San Jose on Monday morning, officials said, and is being held in federal custody without bail. According to court documents, Picaso-Ambriz was deported on Oct. 10,...

For Immediate Release $100,000 Reward Offered for Information Concerning the Death of Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas The FBI is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual(s) responsible for the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas, who was killed in the line of duty on Thursday, July 23, 2009, at Campo, California. On Thursday, July 23, 2009, at approximately 9:15 p.m the body of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas was found in the vicinity of Shockey Truck Trail in Campo, California. At the time of his death, Agent Rosas...

Here is a video report on the reported arrest of four suspects in the killing of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas. Mexican Police are said to have arrested four men along the California-Mexican Border, men who apparently have also been involved in a human smuggling ring. Rosas is the sixth U.S. Border Agent killed since 2006, and the 108th who has died on duty since 1919. He was found shot to death on Thursday night. . . . . . (Watch Video)

Authorities in Baja California, Mexico have arrested 4 men in connection with the murder of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas. According to Mexican federal police , the four were taken into custody while in the act of attempting to smuggle 21 immigrants. During questioning , one of the suspects identified Ernesto Parra Valenzuela as the triggerman. Parra Valenzuela was arrested Friday near the area where the shooting of Rosas took place. Rosas was shot multiple times while on duty in the rugged area near Campo , California on Thursday night. Rosas, who lived in the Imperial Valley , was...

CHULA VISTA, Calif. — Police in Mexico have announced the arrests of four men in connection to the killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent as their counterparts in the United States search hospitals for suspects possibly wounded in the first such shooting in more than a decade. The men detained in Mexico are allegedly part of an immigrant smuggling ring, and 21 people were found with them when police detained them and seized four guns near Tecate, Mexico, said Elias Alvarez Hernandez, coordinator of federal police in Baja California state. During a news conference Saturday, Mexico police did not...

Mexican federal authorities said at a news conference Saturday night in Tijuana that they have arrested the man they believed killed U.S. Border Patrol Agent Robert Rosas in Campo Thursday night. The suspect, Earnesto Parra Valenzuela, 36, is in federal custody after being detained yesterday in Tecate. Tecate officials said Friday that they were questioning an armed man found on the Mexican side of the border hours after the shooting. Valenzuela was identified by a smuggling suspect as the man who shot Rosas, authorities said Saturday night. Rosas, 30, a married father of two, was tracking suspected illegal immigrants about...

U.S. and Mexican officials say they have launched a manhunt for the killer of a U.S. Border Patrol agent, who was shot and killed 60 miles east of San Diego. Officials said Robert Rosas, 30, was slain by one or more assailants after responding to a reported incursion along a steel border fence near the rural town of Campo, Calif., in eastern San Diego County, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Washington - “Last night, Border Patrol Chief Daavid Aguilar and I were devastated to learn about the senseless killing of one of our young Border Patrol Agents, Robert Rosas. Agent Rosas’ murder is a tragic reminder of the ever-present dangers CBP officers, Air & Marine and Border Patrol agents face as they protect our nation’s borders. “By his service and sacrifice, Agent Rosas joins a long line of law enforcement officers and agents who have served—and died—in the law enforcement tradition of honor, valor and dedication to duty. “The FBI, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office, our brothers and sisters...

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Chief Janet Napolitano released a statement this morning on the deadly shooting, identifying the agent as Robert Rosas... ...Napolitano said in the statement: "Agent Robert Rosas was gunned down while protecting our nation’s Southwest border. This act of violence will not stand — nor will any act of violence against the Border Patrol. I have directed that the full resources of the Department assist in the investigation to find and bring to justice those responsible for this inexcusable crime."] A manhunt is going on this morning at the U.S.-Mexico border in eastern San Diego County...

A border agent was shot multiple times Thursday night, close to the border near Campo on Shockey Truck Trail about 100 feet north of the border. Reports of the shooting came in around 9:30 p.m. The agent was shot multiple times and was hit in the head. Medical crews report the agent is dead. The shooter or shooters may have fled across the border. Add a Comment (1) Comments Ads by GoogleWhat's this? ADT® Official Site Call 888-356-5194 Now & Get Award Winning ADT® Home Security For $99! www.ADT.com "25 Pounds in 2 Weeks" Yes - Lose 25 Pounds in...

CAMPO - A U.S. Border Patrol agent was fatally shot in Campo near the border with Baja California Thursday night. The shooting was reported about 9:15 p.m. near the border on Shockey Truck Trail southeast of the San Diego Sheriff Department's Campo substation. Four engines, paramedics, and a medical helicopter were dispatched to the area, but the agent was declared dead at the scene, according to Cal Fire Battalion Chief Nick Schuler. Police report that the victim was shot in the head.