News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Monday, July 24, 2006

Mexican will get $25K after police shooting

The Associated Press
Published: 07.22.2006

SAN LUIS - A Mexican man will receive $25,000 to settle a suit he filed against the city of San Luis after he was wounded by police who fired on a van filled with illegal immigrants, the city attorney said.

Moises Iniguez Zermeno of San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico, was one of 11 passengers in the minivan that was speeding back toward Mexico when the officers opened fire Aug. 14. Two other passengers were also wounded, according to police.

According to the Border Patrol, the driver of the van had picked up illegal immigrants before the shooting and had turned back toward Mexico after Border Patrol officials began following it.

The Border Patrol radioed San Luis police, and two officers were trying to stop the van when it swerved and tried to run one officer down, police said.

posted by missionaryman | 6:41 AM

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