Senate Urges Arrest of US Agent for Killing of Mexican Citizen at Border keralanext.com
go to original September 13, 2012

Tensions flare again on the border between the United States and Mexico, after a Border Patrol agent shot and killed a Mexican citizen at a park along Rio Grande, which splits the border towns of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Coahuila. (Getty Images)

MEXICO CITY - In a statement, the Mexican Senate urged President Felipe Calderon to start a joint investigation with U.S. authorities over the incident, in order to make an arrest "with the aim of extraditing the agent responsible."

Mexico's Senate urged Calderon's administration this week to pressure the United States to find and extradite the U.S. border patrol agent Mexico blames for the fatal shooting of a Mexican on the border with Texas last week.

The killing on September 3 was the second time in two months Mexico complained of one of its nationals being shot over the frontier by U.S. border agents.

U.S. media reports said the man identified by the Mexican Senate as Guillermo Arevalo Pedraza was shot after rocks were thrown at agents across the border and that the United States had begun an investigation of the incident.

Officials for the U.S. Border Patrol could not immediately be reached for comment.

Laura Rojas, a senator belonging to Calderon's conservative National Action Party, or PAN, said the incident, which took place between Nuevo Laredo in Mexico and Laredo, Texas, was part of a "pattern of repeated violence" against Mexicans

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