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.

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

Border Patrol agent kills man who crossed from Mexico

ASSOCIATED PRESS

7:40 p.m. March 27, 2007

CALEXICO – A Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man who threatened him with a softball-sized rock at the border, the agency said Tuesday.

The agent shot the man Monday after he escaped from a scuffle with another agent as he tried to return to Mexico, said Border Patrol spokesman David Kim.

The victim's name, nationality and immigration status were not released by U.S. authorities. Mexico's consul in Calexico, Pablo Arnaud Carreno, said the victim was Mexican and apparently was in the U.S. illegally.

Kim said he did not know where the man was struck.

Mexico has asked U.S. authorities for a thorough investigation, Carreno said.

“It seems unjust to shoot someone who is unarmed,” Arnaud Carreno said Tuesday.

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