I like this one better...
Posted on 01/02/2006 1:24:11 PM PST by DumpsterDiver
MEXICO CITY, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Mexico demanded a U.S. investigation on Monday into the death of an undocumented Mexican shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent as he tried to cross into California last week.
Raul Martinez, a spokesman for the U.S. Border Patrol in San Diego, confirmed that an agent had fired on a man on Friday as he tried to cross the border near San Diego, after the would-be immigrant had thrown rocks at him.
The unidentified man crossed back into Mexico, where he later died of his injuries in a hospital.
"The Mexican government is demanding an investigation of the facts," presidential spokesman Ruben Aguilar said at a news conference.
The shooting came weeks after a U.S. lawmaker proposed a controversial plan to fortify part of the U.S.-Mexico border with a high-tech wall to stop illegal immigrants.
The move was slammed by the Mexican government, which has long sought an agreement with Washington to formalize the status of millions of Mexicans living illegally in the United States and regulate the flow of immigrants heading north.
The shooting "shows once again that only a law that guarantees organized, legal and respectful entry (to the United States) can solve the problems posed by migration," Aguilar said.
Each year, an unknown number of Mexicans attempt to cross the deserts and rivers marking the 2,000-mile (3,200-km) border in search of work in the United States.
The U.S. Border Patrol arrested almost 1.2 million undocumented immigrants making the journey last year, while at least 464 died en route, many of heat exposure.
Right, and why should a border person allow stones to break their bones?
Better the other guy dies.
I like this one better...
illegal immigrant.
There, that's much better. :)
Pretty much sums up the "Investigation" in ten paragraphs. Besides, we need our "Investigating" money for the new wall so this doesn't happen again.
If he'd have been brought to a hospital on this side it would be another illegal alien whose medical bill we'd have to pay.
I wholeheartedly agree.
not to mention the ambulance chasers taking the patrolmans home.
The Mexican side is controlled by their mob/drug runners. They are not in control, evil is.
Um... Mexico owes us $.43 for every round we had to expend to keep him out.
Hey, why not?
A pistol with 5,000 ft-lbs of energy? Maybe a .50 cal BMG.
the rocks the MSM are always saying the Palis throw are in fact cinder blocks thrown from roof tops, they lie I am sure they were probaley large, lethal concrete chunks
Nothing like a stone/rock/block has a right to be thrown at an officer.
There is one already. Mexicans don't respect it.
Our newspaper and tv calls them "Mexican Nationals". Can't recall the last time they just flat-out said illegals.
"throwing rocks at a guy with a gun is just plain retarded."
Even in the 50s there were always stories but jokes about mexicans and blacks tangeling in the Firestone area bars about "someone should teach the mexicans not to show up at a gun fight with a knife".
Did the border patrol officer say it was rocks as well or could it have been a sot drug runner from some cartel of Mexico?
For all we know, could have been a guy shot by a coyote or by the drug cartels who was scared to say that.
How do we verify the story one way or another?
In any case, why should we really care?
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