Questions Linger Over Mexican Teen's Death By US Border Agents Bob Ortega - The Arizona Republic
go to original October 10, 2013

A joint investigation by The Washington Monthly and The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute has found over the past five years U.S. border agents have shot across the border at least 10 times, killing a total of six Mexicans on Mexican soil. The killings have gone unpunished after a court ruled the Mexican victims have no standing to sue in U.S. courts since they died on their own soil. (democracynow)

NOGALES, Mexico - One year ago, on Calle Internacional, under the shadow of the border fence, a teenage boy was riddled with bullets by one or more Border Patrol agents shooting through the fence into Mexico.

Now, as that boy's mother awaits answers to who the agent was who killed her son and why, she questions the U.S. investigation of this shooting, which she sees as secretive, opaque and exceedingly slow.

"I want to look the agent who shot him in the face and ask him why he did it," she said Thursday. "The one time the Department of Justice attorneys met with us, they asked me and (her son) Diego hours of questions as though they were looking for some way they make it Jose Antonio's fault he was shot."

The Department of Justice has declined to comment on its investigation. But Araceli Rodriguez said she knows they have interviewed at least one of two Mexican witnesses who have come forward. Those witnesses' accounts - along with a transcript of a Border Patrol agent's call to Mexican state police - paint a different picture of the death than the version the Border Patrol has offered.

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