Posted on 01/15/2007 9:09:08 AM PST by SandRat
BISBEE Mexican President Felipe Calderon yesterday voiced his most energetic protest against the shooting death of a young illegal Mexican immigrant by a Naco-based Border Patrol agent on Friday and expressed frustration with a lack of information in the case.
Speaking at a press conference at the Los Pinos presidential residence in Mexico City, Calderon opened his remarks by expressing condolences over the death of 22-year-old Francisco Javier Dominguez-Rivera, a native of the south-central state of Puebla. Dominguez-Rivera was shot and killed as he and six others were being detained after an illegal border crossing between Naco and Douglas on Friday afternoon.
Calderon said he had ordered his government to conduct a full investigation into the incident.
Asked by a reporter if he had any new details on the shooting, Calderon said: Unfortunately, we have no further information ... other than the fact that he had been detained by the Border Patrol.
The information is still very unclear to us, the president added, and for that reason, we are putting forth an energetic protest in the name of the government of Mexico.
U.S. officials have released few details of the shooting, which is under investigation by the Cochise County Sheriffs Office and the FBI.
Sheriffs Spokeswoman Carol Capas said her office would conduct further interviews on Tuesday and an autopsy would be performed on Dominguez-Rivera on Wednesday. Details will be available to the public shortly thereafter, she said.
It would be irresponsible of us to release information without having all the interviews completed, Capas said, adding that her office had been working closely with the Mexican Consulate in Douglas throughout the investigation.
Consul Oscar De la Torre said the Douglas consulate and the state government of Puebla would repatriate Dominguez-Riveras body later this week. He said the body would be sent to the city Cuautla, state of Morelos, where Dominguez-Riveras family currently resides.
According to information from the Border Patrols Tucson Sector headquarters, an agent from the Naco Border Patrol station encountered a group of six men and one woman crossing the desert near the Paul Spur limestone plant at approximately 3 p.m. Friday.
As the agent attempted to detain the group, he was reportedly hit or pushed by Dominguez-Rivera before taking out his gun and shooting.
Lt. Commander Mark Dannels of the Cochise County Sheriffs Department told the Herald/Review on Friday that the confrontation began as a rock-throwing incident.
The officer was in fear of his life and took the actions he deemed appropriate, Dannels said.
Initial reports suggest that Dominguez-Rivera and the other members of his group were unarmed.
On Saturday, the Mexican Foreign Relations Secretariat condemned the shooting as an act of disproportionate violence.
The agent has been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
This is the first Border Patrol agent-related shooting in fiscal year 2007, a Tucson Sector spokesman said. The year started Oct. 1. It is also the first such incident since Calderon took office Dec. 1.
The last fatal Border Patrol shooting in Cochise County was on Aug. 10, 2005, when agents shot 32-year-old Hector Alonso Romero-Carrillo six times as the Naco, Sonora, resident fled during a drug arrest in Palominas.
Herald/Review reporter Jonathan Clark can be reached at 515-4693 or by e-mail at jonathan.clark@bisbeereview.net.
and the robberies, and the child molestations, the rapes, the vehicliar homicides, etc.
...right after our president expresses outrage about all the illegal aliens here from MX.
Fix:
Hey Calderon, WE AMERICANS protest the hundred thousands of deaths and rapes, the thousands millions of injuries and crimes being perpetrated on US citizens by YOUR citizens being here illegally.
"Mexico isn't a country, it's an amorphous blob like pestilence"
Well said!
(and its cool that you know about Gurdjieff as well!)
Let the whiner protest.
Well I offer this advice to Mexico and its government and its citizens who reside in the "evil" USA, declare war on the evil racist America.
If he would have stayed in Mexico, he wouldn't have been shot - by us.
Gurdjieff was a user, a manipulator, his acolytes submitted to him too easily. But was very interesting and a teacher
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave"
A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff
Agreed. As an person he was an ego maniac and a manipulator. But his teachings are fascinating.
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