Worked so hard? They picked up some shell casings and didn't file a report. I'm sure that is SOP unless there is a body they have to carry to the morgue. In this case they had no idea they had hit the serial drug smuggler and given him an extra asshole until they were questioned by people who, IMO, had an agenda of their own.
At a border crossing, for example - where carrying an unlicensed firearm would be an obvious tipoff.
An unlicensed firearm? Does a firearm have to be "unlicensed" before it can be used to gun down a border patrol agent? And who "licenses" firearms?
You seem to have your own agenda in this matter. You don't seem to be able to understand that the only crime committed in this matter was felony drug smuggling, and our government traded a get out of jail free card to the smuggler in exchange for his perjured testimony against two highly decorated and honorable government servants.
Perhaps you can show me in the manual where this is SOP.
An unlicensed firearm? Does a firearm have to be "unlicensed" before it can be used to gun down a border patrol agent?
No, my point is that a Mexican national would not have a license to carry any firearm into the United States unless he had some fairly sophisticated diplomatic credentials - tehrefore a Mexican national with a firearm would be carrying an unlicensed firearm - which is immediate probable cause and a prosecutable offense in its own right, even if there had been no drugs.