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Mexican government outraged over Border Patrol shooting of teenager
The Mexican Foreign Ministry condemned the U.S. Border Patrol Thursday over the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy from across the border. “The disproportionate use of lethal force by immigration officials is unacceptable under any circumstances,” the ministry said in a statement. “Cases of this type have provoked the displeasure…
Border patrol mistakenly detains 96-year-old former AZ governor
Border Patrol agents successfully detained 96 year-old former Arizona Governor Raul H. Castro for over a half an hour last month after his pacemaker triggered a radiation sensor, according to azcentral.com. Castro said he was travelling to Tucson, Arizona on June 12 to celebrate his birthday when a sensor at…
Cops in shoot out with Mexican drug gang across Rio Grande
(Reuters) – U.S. Border Patrol agents and Mexican drug traffickers fought a gun battle across the Rio Grande river in south Texas, authorities said on Friday, the latest of a spate of cross-border shootings in recent months. The Border Patrol said gunfire erupted on Wednesday after agents confronted a group…
Two border patrol agents accused of abusing suspects
PHOENIX (Reuters) – Two Border Patrol agents were indicted on Thursday on charges of forcing accused drug smugglers to eat marijuana and flee barefoot and nearly naked into the chilly Arizona desert. Dario Castillo, 23, and Ramon Zuniga, 29, were charged with five civil rights violations by a federal grand…
Fact check: US border violence actually on the decline
Arizona’s Republican governor, Jan Brewer, would have you believe that Arizona is the repeated victim of terrorism at the hands of marauding illegal immigrant gangs. “Arizona has been under terrorist attacks, if you will, with all of this illegal immigration that has been taking place on our very porous border,”…
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