News From the Border: Border Patrol agent shoots at migrants throwing rocks

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.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Border Patrol agent shoots at migrants throwing rocks

By Daniel Borunda / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 02/15/2007 12:00:00 AM MST

A Border Patrol agent in El Paso opened fire at a group of suspected migrants who were throwing rocks, in what officials described as part of a growing number of assaults on agents along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The agent, whose name was not released, was not hurt and no one was believed to have been shot in the incident. It happened Tuesday along the Rio Grande off the César Chávez Border Highway near Fonseca Drive, agency spokesman Doug Mosier said.

About 8 p.m., the agent, who was alone, approached a group of four or five men who began throwing rocks, one of which came close to hitting the agent in the head, Mosier said. The agent fired his handgun at least once at the group, which dispersed and ran into Mexico.

Maybe we should issue slingshots to our border agents like they did in Tijuana so that way the agents could protect themselves but have a lower risk of being arrested or sued by our politically correct legal system! -mm

Labels: Border Patrol, Border Violence