Mon Jul 9, 2012, 03:23 AM

Judi Lynn (78,150 posts)

Mexico condemns fatal shooting over border by U.S. agent

Source: Reuters

Mexico condemns fatal shooting over border by U.S. agent
Reuters
1:26 a.m. EDT, July 9, 2012

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The Mexican government on Sunday condemned the fatal shooting of a Mexican citizen over the U.S. border by a U.S. agent.

The victim was hit by a single bullet on Saturday, close to the Tomates-Veterans border crossing in Matamoros, over the river from Brownsville, Texas, Mexico's Foreign Relations Ministry said in a news release.

The shot was fired by a U.S. Border Patrol agent, the ministry said in the release.

"The Mexican government has reiterated that the disproportionate use of lethal force in immigration control is unacceptable under any circumstances," it said.

Read more: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-rt-us-mexico-borderbre86805i-20120708,0,3788311.story

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Mexico condemns fatal shooting over border by U.S. agent (Original post)	Judi Lynn	Jul 2012	OP
This will get worse, I believe, with the new Texas "gunboats".	tawadi	Jul 2012	#1
Good grief! First time I've heard of these "boats"! Unbellievable!	Judi Lynn	Jul 2012	#2
YW	tawadi	Jul 2012	#3
Talk about over kill	AsahinaKimi	Jul 2012	#6
But of course those boats are under state control while the shooting is the posted story was	24601	Jul 2012	#7
NYC has a better navy .n/t	BT021	Jul 2012	#8
Oh, I feel so much safer knowing we can now "secure our borders"...	Hulk	Jul 2012	#4
Ohh, this is not good.	a la izquierda	Jul 2012	#5

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Mon Jul 9, 2012, 10:41 AM

tawadi (1,994 posts)

1. This will get worse, I believe, with the new Texas "gunboats".

Article: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/01/us-texas-mexico-gunboat-idUSTRE8202FU20120301

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Response to tawadi (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 9, 2012, 11:09 AM

Judi Lynn (78,150 posts)

2. Good grief! First time I've heard of these "boats"! Unbellievable!

From the Reuters article you provided:

(Reuters) - Texas unveiled the second of six new 'interceptor' gunboats on Thursday, similar to Navy swift boats that plied the rivers of Vietnam during the Vietnam War, to patrol the waterways of the Mexico border.

The Texas Department of Public Safety, which oversees the Texas Highway Patrol and the Texas Rangers, said the 34-foot shallow water crafts would be deployed on the Rio Grande and the Intercoastal Waterway, which separates the Texas mainland from Padre Island.

"They have night vision capabilities, they have ballistic shielding, and the first couple of boats have fully automatic machine guns," department spokesman Tom Vinger told Reuters.

~snip~

Vinger said the boats would mainly patrol the Rio Grande, and would be geared toward stopping smugglers of drugs, weapons and illegal immigrants.

Thank you, tawadi. You have certainly expanded our grasp of this new situation.

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Mon Jul 9, 2012, 12:23 PM

tawadi (1,994 posts)

3. YW

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Mon Jul 9, 2012, 06:52 PM

AsahinaKimi (18,492 posts)

6. Talk about over kill

wow, just wow.

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Response to tawadi (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 9, 2012, 08:58 PM

24601 (2,536 posts)

7. But of course those boats are under state control while the shooting is the posted story was

about a federal agent.

The federal government has much bigger and badder boats. And of course they take orders from the President, not the Governor.

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Tue Jul 10, 2012, 06:54 AM

BT021 (34 posts)

8. NYC has a better navy .n/t

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Mon Jul 9, 2012, 02:16 PM

Hulk (3,098 posts)

4. Oh, I feel so much safer knowing we can now "secure our borders"...

...and I'm just waiting for the future stories explaining how we murdered a few harmless illegal immigrants trying to get into our country to better their lives. Just astounding. Leave it to Texas..probably the dumbest state in the West. Certainly a Confederate mentality of shoot first, ask questions later.

How insanely ignorant. I'm sure the NRA members are all pounding their chests with glee.

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Mon Jul 9, 2012, 03:30 PM

a la izquierda (7,634 posts)

5. Ohh, this is not good.

And those boats- and the implication of the militarization- will only heighten tensions. Mexico does not suffer foreign (military) intervention lightly.

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