Border crossing shut following shooting

AP ^ | 5/18/2006

[Ladycalif]

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Shooting shuts busy border crossing From correspondents in Tijuana, Mexico May 19, 2006 TRAFFIC into Mexico from the US through the world's busiest land border crossing was blocked for several hours after US authorities shot and killed a driver who refused to stop.

Mexican news reports said US authorities shot dead a driver heading into Mexico at the San Ysidro border post linking San Diego with the Mexican border city of Tijuana after he refused to stop and hit a border guard standing in his way.

The Televisa network said four passengers were arrested.

Television stations showed long traffic jams north of the crossing, through which more than 17 million vehicles and 41 million people entered the US last year.

The border crossing is also a key transit point for drug traffickers and smugglers of immigrants.

[Ladycalif]

few more details...

[Liberty Valance]

PHMIF

[Liberty Valance]

[janetgreen]

One less amnesty/welfare recipient we'll have to worry about.

[Ladycalif]

Now if we can just get them on the way in...lol

[television is just wrong]

Unfortunately, the country of Mexico has killed any sympathy held for their nationals previously felt by most of the legal residents and citizens in the U.S.

[muglywump]

.....Bush's fault.....

[Constantine XI Palaeologus]

Is the Orwell quote real? I sometimes have difficulty distinguishing real photos from well-done photoshopping.

Any word on whether it was a drug smuggler or other criminal? (although I can't see how it'd be otherwise)

[Ladycalif]

Yes it is real, painted on the border fence.

No other details.

[ClancyJ]

Gee, we kill them because they leave? Is that the democrat immigration plan?

[kinoxi]

East Germany did it for a while. The dems ideological roots.

[DanielLongo]

Couldn't be a Democrat plan silly. They throw money - they don't shoot bullets. Of course maybe they were trying to kill the SUV. Now that makes more sense. Yes, they were Democrats. Sorry for jumping to conclusions.

[Paladin2]

That is a good point as the evil SUV's window was hit first. The driver would be just collateral damage.

[ClancyJ]

Well you know they hate those gas guzzlers. And, it just proves our beliefs - if they ever get rid of us having guns, they will still be able to shoot "U.S. exiting SUV's".

[hershey]

The ACLU and Mexico will sue.

[hershey]

You're a racist fool. Go wash your mouth out with soap.

[Larousse2]

I was listening to CNN when this story broke last night.

They reported last night on CNN that the vehicle had tried to run over, or mow down, the Border Patrol Officer(s), which then resulted in the shooting.

SPIN, SPIN, SPIN!

On CNN this morning, there was absolutely NO MENTION of the vehicle trying to run down the Border Patrol Officer(s).

I am not, repeat NOT, having auditory hallucinations!