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.
At least he went back to Mexico and didn't wind up on the taxpayers dime in a San Diego hospital.
If you spend time or do business in Mexico you had best have connections in high places!
Had an associate that was negotiating for a shrimp deal for me and had a hart attack and died and outside of my fuel cost for the airplane the only cost of getting him back here was $600 mortuary, paper work, and aluminum shipping casket.
Calling the proper people in Mexico I picked him up and brought him back a week after he died and only spent 20 minutes on the ground in Guymas.
BULL$HIT ! ! ! DEEP BULL$HIT, TOO ! ! ! !
A pistol with 5,000 foot pounds of energy is BULL$hit. Check the ballistics charts.
While I agree that a thrown rock can be deadly, I feel that a simple fact check would have avoided such a ballistics error.
so a rock has more energy ?
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