Border Patrol Agents' quandary: kill or be prosecuted

From the Bakersfield Californian...

A Border Patrol agent shot and killed a man who threatened him with a softball-sized rock at the border, the agency said Tuesday.

The agent fired an M-4 assault rifle at the man, who had escaped from a scuffle with another agent as he tried to run back into Mexico, said Border Patrol spokesman David Kim.

The victim, whose name, nationality and immigration status were not released by U.S. authorities, was pronounced dead from one bullet wound at El Centro Regional Medical Center after the incident Monday. Kim said he did not know where the man was struck.

Pablo Arnaud Carreno, Mexico's consul in Calexico, said the victim was a Mexican man who was apparently in the U.S. illegally. The Mexican government asked U.S. authorities for a thorough investigation.

"It seems unjust to shoot someone who is unarmed," Arnaud Carreno said Tuesday.

Since the illegal now can't be offered immunity from past, present and future crimes in order to lie against the Border Patrol Agent, I'd say it's a clear case of self defense.

The corrupt Mexican government made the bed, not they have to sleep in it.

Posted by Danny Carlton at March 28, 2007 4:54 AM