Thread: Mexico teen killed by US Border Patrol, anger high

Rocking attacks on Border Patrol agents have been going on for quite a while.
This article was on the homepage in July, 2009.

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Border Patrol agents again targeted in 'rocking' attacks
Reported by: Rebecca Thomas
Email: rebecca.thomas@abc15.com
Last Update: 10:59 am

(US Border Patrol) TUCSON, AZ -- When it comes to rocking assaults, it just goes with the territory for U.S. Border Patrol agents in southern Arizona.

Agents in the Tucson Sector were subjected to several of these attacks last weekend -- people throwing rocks from the Mexican side of the border.

On Friday night, several people who were trying to enter the country illegally 'rocked' an agent just east of the DeConcini Port of Entry in Nogales.

In a separate incident that night, another agent was pelted by rocks while patrolling the border in Nogales.

He suffered a minor injury to his left arm.

The vehicles from both attacks were damaged as well.

MORE: Caught On Tape: Border patrol agents attacked with rocks

On Sunday, an agent with the Douglas Station had his windshield shattered by a rock-thrower, while responding to assist other agents near the Douglas Port of Entry.

He was not hurt.

Then on Monday, there were two more rock attacks on agents patrolling the border in Nogales.

Fortunately, the agents weren't hurt during these assaults either.

Since the current fiscal year began in October 2008, the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector has recorded more than 171 assaults on agents.

"It's the nature of the beast," said Agent Mike Scioli. "Our job is to be on that border and stop whatever comes across -- whether it be illegal drugs or human traffic -- these are the elements of danger we face."

During the same time period last fiscal year, the Tucson Sector had 202 assaults on agents.

So, there has been a slight drop.

But, Agent Scioli says he expects attacks against agents to increase in the coming months.

"Rockings have long been one of the threats we deal with," said Scioli. "With the assistance of new tools (including a pepperball launching system), we continue to enhance our security along the border. And, we will likely continue to see situations of rockings, as a sign of smugglers' aggravation."

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"I fear this will put the BP at greater risks. This will now escalate and instead of throwing rocks they will be shooting bullets."

Its been escalating for years. This is just the next logical step. And of course its going to get worse. It's a direct result of years of lack of courage and conviction by our own federal policy makers regarding illegal immigration.

Through a long standing process of moral equivalence the left would now have it that there is no difference between "immigrant' and 'illegal immigrate'. They never even bother to use the later phrase anymore. Sanctuary Cities, driver's licenses, tuition, all the vitriol spewed by our own politicians embolden folks like the rock throwers.

It's almost a certainty that its all gonna get a lot worse before it gets better.

"That was his mistake, to have gone to the river," she said. "That's why they killed him."

So typical, always playing the absolute victim card. Now that one posted this kid was a known smuggler in the area, and he was possibly throwing rocks at the BP agents (aiding a smuggling operation?), and his mother acts like this was just a little boy, innocent in his knickers, playing catch with his friends, and big bad American BP agents went and killed him just because he was down by the river "playing"? Please mamacita, he was not just in the wrong place at the wrong time, it appears he as aiding and abeting someone to try to cross the border illegally, maybe more...

My daughters best friend linked up with this guy about 9 years ago. She was pregnant and he kept hitting her, left her once with a black eye, and also punched her in the stomach, sending her to the ER at 8 months pregnant. Police arrested him, and while my daughters friend sat being tended to in the ER, this jerks mother said "so what did she do to cause him to want to punch her anyways?"!!!!!!!!!

This sounds to me like the same kind of mother. Her baby boy was such a good boy he would have never done anything wrong and everyone else was to blame for his bad behavior and choices.

In defense of the slain boy, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Tuesday that his government "will use all resources available to protect the rights of Mexican migrants."
Since the boy was a known smuggler looks like Calderon lost one of those resources already. The boy was filled with hate, and death couldn't cure it. How much death did he wish upon our own.
Caleron can't explain this quote without being identified as a racist.

FBI: Mexican soldiers used rifles to chase off U.S. Border Patrol

Published June 09, 2010

| Associated Press

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) — Pointing their rifles, Mexican security forces chased away U.S. authorities investigating the shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on the banks of the Rio Grande, the FBI and witnesses told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The killing of the Mexican by U.S. authorities — the second in less than two weeks — has exposed the distrust between the two countries that lies just below the surface, and has enraged Mexicans who see the death of the boy on Mexican soil as an act of murder.

Shortly after the boy was shot, Mexican soldiers arrived at the scene and pointed their guns at the Border Patrol agents across the riverbank while bystanders screamed insults and hurled rocks and firecrackers, FBI spokeswoman Andrea Simmons said. She said the agents were forced to withdraw.

"It pretty quickly got very intense over on the Mexican side," she said, adding that FBI agents showed up later and resumed the investigation, even as Mexican authorities pointed guns at them from across the river.

A relative of the dead boy who had been playing with him told the AP that the Mexicans — who he described as federal police, not soldiers — pointed their guns only when the Americans waded into the mud in an apparent attempt to cross into Mexico.
The Mexican authorities accused the Americans of trying to recover evidence from Mexican soil and threatened to kill them if they crossed the border, prompting both sides to draw their guns, said the 16-year-old boy who asked not to be further identified for fear of reprisal.

The confrontation occurred Monday night over the body of Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka, who died of his wounds beside the column of a railroad bridge connecting Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Texas.

Each government has made veiled accusations suggesting misconduct on the part of the other's law enforcement agents.

Hernandez was found 20 feet (six meters) into Mexico, and an autopsy revealed that the fatal shot was fired at a relatively close range, according to Arturo Sandoval, a spokesman for the Chihuahua state attorney general's office. Mexican authorities said a .40 caliber shell casing was found near the body, suggesting that the Border Patrol agent might have crossed into Mexico to shoot the boy.

That would violate the rules for Border Patrol agents, who are supposed to stay on the U.S. side — and could open the agent to a Mexican homicide prosecution.

A U.S. official close to the investigation told the AP that authorities have a video showing that the Border Patrol agent did not cross into Mexico. In fact, the official said, the video shows what appear to be members of Mexican law enforcement crossing onto the U.S. side, picking something up and returning to Mexico. The official was not cleared to speak about the video and spoke only on condition of anonymity.

Alejandro Pariente, Chihuahua state's regional deputy attorney general, said the U.S. Border Patrol has given him video which he is reviewing. He declined to describe it except to say that it has sped up the investigation.

The two killings have provoked anger in Mexico like no other recent controversy surrounding immigration, including Arizona's new law making it a state crime to be an illegal immigrant and President Obama's decision to send the National Guard to the border.

Although many Mexicans were unhappy with both initiatives, popular and official reaction had been subdued, in contrast to street protests seen in previous years when the U.S. has cracked down on the border. Many Mexicans have since given up hope for a quick solution to the immigration problem, while other issues including growing drug violence have taken center stage in relations between the two countries.

That has started to change with the back-to-back deaths of two Mexicans at the border: the teenager killed Monday, and migrant Anastasio Hernandez, 42, who died after a Customs and Border Protection officer shocked him with a stun gun at the San Ysidro border crossing that separates San Diego and Tijuana, Mexico. Anastasio Hernandez, who had lived in the U.S. since he was 14, was buried in San Diego on Wednesday.

Mexican news media were filled with images of the 15-year-old's bloody body and his grieving relatives. One tabloid ran a large photograph on its cover, with the banner headline "Grindaderas," salty slang that roughly translates as "things Americans do."

Mexican President Felipe Calderon pledged to "use all resources available to protect the rights of Mexican migrants," and his foreign secretary, Patricia Espinosa, said Mexico wasn't taking the Americans' word that the Border Patrol agent had been defending himself from rock-throwers when he opened fire.

Chihuahua state Gov. Jose Reyes Baeza blamed the two killings on racism fueled by Arizona's law.

"We believe that this killing, the second in recent days in the border between the two countries, is due to xenophobia and racism, derived from the approval of Arizona's anti-immigration law," Reyes said.

Meanwhile, the Border Patrol released statistics showing that assaults on agents along the border between El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, were on pace to far exceed totals in the previous four years.

In the past seven months, Border Patrol agents in the El Paso sector have been assaulted 33 times, compared with 39 times in the entire previous year. Twenty-nine of those incidents were rock-throwing, compared to 31 such incidents in all of fiscal 2009.

That's what happened Monday night, when suspected illegal immigrants who ran back to Mexico began throwing rocks at Border Patrol agents detaining other immigrants, Simmons said.

At least one rock came from behind the agent, who was kneeling beside a suspected illegal immigrant whom he was holding prone on the ground, Simmons said. The agent told the rock throwers to stop, then fired his weapon several times, hitting the boy, she said. The FBI is leading the investigation because it involves an assault on a federal officer.

The agent was not injured, Simmons said.

T.J. Bonner, president of the union representing Border Patrol agents, said rock throwing aimed at Border Patrol agents is common and capable of causing serious injury.

"It is a deadly force encounter, one that justifies the use of deadly force," Bonner said.

Mexicans ridiculed that stance.

"Let's say that Anastasio and Sergio Adrian attacked the border agents, one with his fists and the other with rocks," columnist Manuel Jauregui wrote in the newspaper Reforma. "Does that mean that killing them was the only valid option?"


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In defense of the slain boy, Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Tuesday that his government "will use all resources available to protect the rights of Mexican migrants."

If he was Mexican and on the other side...how did he become a migrant?