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Mexico demands U.S. probe fatal border shooting
AlertNet.org ^ | January 2, 2006 | Reuters

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.


TOPICS: Mexico; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderpatrol; bordershooting; illegalaliens; immigrantlist; mexico; poundsand; throwingrocks
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To: Hill of Tara

Right, and why should a border person allow stones to break their bones?
Better the other guy dies.


21 posted on 01/02/2006 1:58:40 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Ben Mugged
Put up signs (in English on the new wall) "Assault Border Agents and they will shoot you".

I like this one better...


22 posted on 01/02/2006 2:01:29 PM PST by Malsua (Join the Free Republic folding team! It's free and effortless. Search on keyword folding.)
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To: DumpsterDiver
would-be immigrant

illegal immigrant.

There, that's much better. :)

23 posted on 01/02/2006 2:03:19 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (Liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid - The Great One)
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To: DumpsterDiver

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.


24 posted on 01/02/2006 2:09:32 PM PST by Normal4me
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To: DumpsterDiver
The unidentified man crossed back into Mexico, where he later died of his injuries in a hospital.

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.

25 posted on 01/02/2006 2:10:08 PM PST by glockmeister40
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To: A CA Guy
"throwing rocks at a guy with a gun is just plain retarded"

True, which means this idiot should be a nominee for a "Darwin Award" (contributing to the improvement of the gene pool by self-selecting oneself out of existence).
26 posted on 01/02/2006 2:11:25 PM PST by Enchante (Democrats: "We are ALL broken and worn out, our party & ideas, what else is new?")
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To: A CA Guy

I wholeheartedly agree.


27 posted on 01/02/2006 2:11:41 PM PST by Hill of Tara
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To: A CA Guy
Perhaps one shouldn't bring rocks to a gun fight LOL

All laughing aside, there have been reports of rocks injuring Border Patrol, and also reports of shots being fired from the Mexican side of the border. Should the Mexican government demand an investigation into those incidents then we will know that they seek an honest justice and not the curcifixition of an US agent.
28 posted on 01/02/2006 2:19:53 PM PST by Dave_in_Upland (This is hugh, in a reel series weigh)
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To: glockmeister40

not to mention the ambulance chasers taking the patrolmans home.


29 posted on 01/02/2006 2:21:10 PM PST by bdfromlv (Leavenworth hard time)
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To: DumpsterDiver; Pikamax; All
Check this thread just posted about Fox and his comment
30 posted on 01/02/2006 2:29:10 PM PST by kstewskis ("Go to your room!"....Dan Rowan to Dick Martin)
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To: Dave_in_Upland

The Mexican side is controlled by their mob/drug runners. They are not in control, evil is.


31 posted on 01/02/2006 2:29:23 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Tamar1973

Um... Mexico owes us $.43 for every round we had to expend to keep him out.

Hey, why not?


32 posted on 01/02/2006 2:34:34 PM PST by Texas WOP
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To: DumpsterDiver
That should be a warning to the sumbitches that try to cross the border illegally.
33 posted on 01/02/2006 2:36:28 PM PST by Sen Jack S. Fogbound (In Memory of James W. Bruhn, November, 1966, Vietnam)
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To: seastay

A pistol with 5,000 ft-lbs of energy? Maybe a .50 cal BMG.


34 posted on 01/02/2006 3:01:09 PM PST by 11B40 (times change, people don't)
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To: A CA Guy

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


35 posted on 01/02/2006 3:46:26 PM PST by dubyawhoiluv
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To: dubyawhoiluv

Nothing like a stone/rock/block has a right to be thrown at an officer.


36 posted on 01/02/2006 4:09:57 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: DumpsterDiver
"shows once again that only a law that guarantees organized, legal and respectful entry (to the United States) can solve the problems posed by ILLEGAL migration," Aguilar said.

There is one already. Mexicans don't respect it.

37 posted on 01/02/2006 4:11:21 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Islam: a Satanically Transmitted Disease, spread by unprotected intimate contact with the Koranus.)
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To: DumpsterDiver

Our newspaper and tv calls them "Mexican Nationals". Can't recall the last time they just flat-out said illegals.


38 posted on 01/02/2006 4:17:42 PM PST by voiceinthewind
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To: A CA Guy

"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".


39 posted on 01/02/2006 4:17:54 PM PST by dalereed
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To: dalereed

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?


40 posted on 01/02/2006 4:26:51 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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