Who wants to bet Obamba throws this agent under the bus?
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EL PASO, Texas, June 22 (UPI) -- The shooting of a 15-year-old Juarez, Mexico, boy by a U.S. Border Patrol agent is being investigated on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities say.

The agent, whom the Border Patrol has not identified, shot Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca near the Paso del Norte Bridge in El Paso, Texas, on June 7, The El Paso Times reported.

U.S. officials say the agent was defending himself from rock-throwers after he arrested a man who crossed illegally into the United States.

Mexican officials have demanded a full investigation, and the slain boy's family says they want Mexican prosecutors to seek extradition of the agent on murder charges.

But legal experts say the extradition treaty between the United States and Mexico makes that unlikely.

"Under the extradition treaty, the basic rule is that countries aren't obligated to extradite their own nationals," Allen Weiner of Stanford University said.

"It's pretty inconceivable to me that the U.S. would surrender one of its officials, especially if the agent was in good-faith execution of his duties," said Weiner, who is co-director of Stanford's Program in International and Comparative Law.

In the United States, the FBI has launched a civil rights investigation into the shooting.

Angel Torres Valadez, spokesman for the Mexican attorney general's office, said an investigation by his country continues.

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