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, January 14, 2008

Mexican government objects to 'tear-gas attack'

UNION-TRIBUNE

3:28 p.m. January 12, 2008

The Mexican government has objected to what it called a tear-gas attack around 5 a.m. Friday on the Colonia Libertad neighborhood of Tijuana, a traditional launching point for illegal border crossers.

Tijuana's Channel 12 news reported that it was the sixth time the Border Patrol has been accused of firing tear gas and/or pepper spray across the border in the past two months.

Border Patrol spokesman Gabriel Guerrero told Channel 12 that agents were defending themselves from rock throwers and that one canister, which did not go off, unfortunately landed across the border

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