"Teen killed by border agent had record" By Associated Press | June 26, 2010
EL PASO — A 15-year-old Mexican boy shot and killed by a US Border Patrol agent was among El Paso’s most wanted juvenile immigrant smugglers, according to federal arrest records reviewed by the Associated Press.
The records show that Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka had been arrested at least four times since 2008 and twice in the same week in February 2009 on suspicion of smuggling illegal immigrants across the border. Hernandez was repeatedly arrested along the US side of the border near downtown El Paso, not far from where he was killed, but was never charged with a crime by federal prosecutors.
Related: Illegals Already Have Amnesty
I guess running them does, too.
A Border Patrol agent shot and killed Hernandez on June 7 while trying to arrest illegal immigrants crossing the muddy bed of the Rio Grande. Some witnesses said a group of people on the Mexican side were throwing rocks at the agents. Agents are generally permitted to use lethal force against rock throwers.
We become more like the Israelis every day.
The records show that in at least one case, Hernandez was to be paid $50 a person for smuggling four people into the United States. The records also show that in one case, federal prosecutors declined to charge Hernandez because there were no “extenuating circumstances or endangerment.’’
Border Patrol officials have declined to comment on his criminal record, citing an ongoing FBI investigation into whether the shooting was justified under Border Patrol rules and whether the agent, who remains unidentified, violated Hernandez’s civil rights.--more--"
FLASHBACK:
"Killing ignites US-Mexico tension; Boy’s death exposes distrust between nations" by Christopher Sherman and Olivia Torres, Associated Press | June 10, 2010
What?
After all the positive pub I've read in the paper?
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — Pointing their rifles, Mexican security forces chased away US authorities investigating the shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican by a US Border Patrol agent on the banks of the Rio Grande, the FBI and witnesses said yesterday.
Not Muslim so we don't attack, we run?
The killing of the Mexican by US 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.
So the POMP of PUBLIC POLITICS and MSM PROP is ALL a bunch of POOP, huh?
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....
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.
Each government has made veiled accusations suggesting misconduct on the part of the other’s law enforcement agents.
Hernandez was found 20 feet 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.So it was an EXECUTION!
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.
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