Posted on 10/18/2012 4:38:42 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States has used excessive force against immigrants along the Mexican border and should cooperate in investigating border killings, including those of many young people, the top United Nations human rights official said on Thursday.
"There have been very many young people, teenagers, who have been killed at the border," Navi Pillay, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, told a news conference.
"The reports reaching me are that there has been excessive use of force by the U.S. border patrols while they are enforcing the immigration laws," she added.
The family of a Mexican teen shot dead when the U.S. Border Patrol opened fire on a group of rock throwers in Mexico last week is planning to bring a lawsuit alleging excessive use of force, Mexican authorities said on Monday.
The Border Patrol said an agent in Nogales, Arizona, opened fire across the border into Mexico on Oct 10. Mexican authorities said 16-year-old Jose Antonio Elena Rodriguez was shot dead in the incident.
He was shot seven times in the back in the incident that began shortly before midnight when Border Patrol agents responded to reports of two suspected smugglers in Nogales and watched as they dropped drugs on the Arizona side of the border.
Arizona straddles a major route for Mexican smuggling networks hauling drugs and illegal immigrants to the United States, and running guns and cash profits back south to Mexico.
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In answer to this, we need to just do a comparison between our practices in controlling our border with Mexico, and Mexico’s practices in controlling it’s southern border, and just see who uses “excessive” force.
Navi
Our government doesn’t think so, either.
Thanks NormsRevenge.
That’s one of the many reasons why the United States must withdraw from the U.N.
Does anyone remember the John Birch Society billboards saying, “Get the US out of the UN.” Maybe we should have listened to them.
but obviously NOT enough to keep them from crossing it though...
She’s right. There have been more people killed along the border than in Iraq. I would call that excessive force. Of course, they were killed south of the border.
I wonder if she would like to comment on where they bought their weapons?
Holder got caught selling these too.
“Navi is a man or a woman?”
SHE is a South African of “Indian decent.” Now we all know just how “democratic” South Africa is don’t we!
Did they bother looking into how much force Mexico uses on the Guatemalan border? Of course not...
We should tell the UN we now consider these hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants an invasion to be repelled by force. We will, however, promptly send home all of the millions of prisoners of war we have fed, housed, given medical treatment and educated at our expense.
Somebody needs to tell the Commish to go pund sand....
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