Shootings by United States Agents Add to Mexico Border Tensions Fernanda Santos - NYTimes News Service
go to original June 11, 2013

'Over the Line': US Agents Shooting Dead Innocent Mexicans Across the Border With Impunity (Democracy Now!)

NOGALES, Ariz. — As rocks hurled from Mexico rained down on U.S. Border Patrol agents one night in October, at least one of the agents drew his gun and fired across the border, striking a teenager 11 times, seven times in the back. The boy, José Antonio Elena Rodriguez, 16, collapsed and died on a cracked sidewalk blocks from his home, under a sign that read “emergencias médicas." The police in Nogales, Mexico, reported that he had been carrying only a cellphone.

The shooting was not an isolated case. He was one of at least 15 people killed by border agents in the Southwest since January 2010, their deaths a jolt to the careful balance of sovereignty and security that underlies a binational debate over immigration reform.

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