Posted on 06/10/2010 7:21:25 PM PDT by La Lydia
The crackdown on illegal immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border that has resulted in two deaths in less than two weeks has provoked human rights advocates as Amnesty International to raise strong protests against what has been called excessive use of force and police brutality. The most recent case occurred Monday night, is a 15-year-old shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent near the El Paso, Texas-Ciudad Juarez port of entry.
Allegations over the fact that the teenager was shot dead on the south side of the border has enraged Mexicans who see the incident as an act of murder.
According to the FBI and witnesses Mexican security forces chased away U.S. authorities investigating the shooting. FBI spokeswoman Andrea Simmons told the Associated Press that shortly after the boy was shot, Mexican security forces arrived at the scene and pointed their guns at the Border Patrol agents across the banks of the Rio Grande while bystanders screamed insults and hurled rocks.
"It pretty quickly got very intense over on the Mexican side," Simmons said.
The FBI version however, emphasizes more on the fact that “Mexican security forces” pointed their guns at Border Patrol agents, than on the details of the teenager's killing. It also suggested that those forces on the Mexican side could have been soldiers, which Mexico’s Defense Secretary has denied....
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Please tell me why we need Mexico as a friend and when were they ever our friend.
Stay the hell out of America. It’s too dangerous!
Oh really? Increased tensions more so than did the cruel and insane execution of that much beloved and respected Arizona rancher?
It’s sad that the poor kid died, as no one should die at 15. Thing is, no one forced him into that position. At the very least, we should learn the facts before condemning the border patrol agent.
Screw Mexico! They have come to see the border as theirs to ignore at will, no doubt with the complicity of our “leaders”. This needs to stop, now!
It was a good shoot. Let the criminal invaders take warning: rock throwing at agents won’t be tolerated.
Empty a .50BMG across the border at the garbage throwing rocks and they will stop.
Even their guitars are fat.
Yo, Pepe: Se habla “Don’t throw rocks at armed men?”
So what is Mexico going to do to protest this killing and bring pressure on the United States. Stop taking our foreign aid and handouts or close the border?
Chapultepec II - it’s time.
Gee, the killing of an illegal Mexican INVADER causes tensions, but the multiple-gunshot, execution style MURDER of an Arizona rancher ON HIS OWN LAND, WHILE MINDING HIS OWN BUSINESS, is no reason for tension?
This is one of the times when it’s tough to be a Christian.
To love my enemies.
To bless them that curse me.
To pray for them that hurt me and despitefully use me.
LIKE MEXICO
The only time Mexico is our friend is when we let them walk all over us and take advantage of us, and when we are providing them with handouts, such as the Merida initiative and all of the water projects we are building to accommodate them along the border. They are like the guy who is your friend as long as you let him sleep on your couch, wear your clothes, eat from your fridge and drive your car. If you even hint that he should take responsibility for himself, he is no longer your friend.
Notice how the press dwells on the 15 year old aspect and skips the part about him being a drug runner.
Scum is scum.
My daughter is a corrections deputy here in San Diego county. She tells me the juvenile offenders are probably the most vicious of the lot. They know children are treated differently and learn quickly how to game the system.
Lets see a show of hands here... Who does not know, if you throw rocks at a man with a gun, you’ll probably get your dumb a$$ shot ?!!
no mercy ...sorry
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