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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.

Saturday, January 26, 2008

Border Patrol agent shoots man in leg

The Associated Press

Published: 01.24.2008

DOUGLAS - A U.S. Border Patrol agent questioning the occupants of a pickup truck clung to the passenger door and shot and wounded its driver Thursday as the man attempted to leave the scene, authorities said.

The unidentified agent had stopped a truck with five people inside about 9:30 a.m. on U.S. 191 nine miles northwest of Douglas, Cochise County Sheriff's spokesman Carol Capas said. The agent was acting on a tip that a truck matching the description and license plate had been seen loading a group of illegal immigrants near Douglas, Capas said.

As the agent stood on the passenger side of the truck, the driver attempted to drive off, with the agent trapped somehow by the vehicle's door, Capas said.

"The agent fired a single shot prior to falling off of the door, which struck the driver one time in the leg," Capas said.

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