Mexican hostility toward U.S. Border Patrol

Hostility against U.S. Border Patrol is spreading across Mexico over the recently alleged illegal deaths of 15-year-old Sergio Adrian Hernandez by a U.S. border agent, (name withhold) which followed the May 28 death of Anastasio Hernández Rojas
By: Michael webster
 
June 12, 2010 - PRLog --  
Hostility against U.S. Border Patrol is spreading across Mexico over the recently alleged illegal deaths of  15-year-old Sergio Adrian Hernandez  by a U.S. border agent, (name withhold) which followed the May 28 death of Anastasio Hernández Rojas, a 42-year-old Mexican national who died after U.S. border agents used a stun gun against him as he reportedly resisted deportation near San Diego.

Mexican President Felipe Calderón said his government was "profoundly angered" by the killing of Sergio Adrian Hernández Huereka. Calderón said he feared anti-immigrant sentiment in the United States is encouraging violence against Mexicans.
The recent deaths of both Mexican citizens the one at the San Ysidro, CA, Port of Entry near San Diego, California, the other between El Paso, TX, and Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico have resulted in ongoing investigations by both countries.
Calderón urged U.S. agencies to review their policies on the use of force.
Mexico officially condemned the shooting of the 15-year-old boy by a U.S. Border Patrol agent through diplomatic correspondence and an angry phone call to the Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano from Mexican Interior Secretary Fernando Gomez Mont. Gomez Mont told Napolitano the "unjustified use of force against our population is unacceptable to the Mexican government."
 
Some Mexican politicians called for the agent's extradition to face Mexican justice. A Mexican congressman, Ricardo Lopez Pescador, is now demanding that the “homicidal agents of the Border Patrol” must be extradited to Mexico and put in the hands of Mexican judges. (This from “El Universal”  (Mexico City) today.) Separately, the leader of Mexico’s PRD (left wing pol. party,) demands that President Calderon, in turn, demand from the U.S. government the extradition to Mexico of the Border Patrol Agents who “brutally” killed two of our countrymen, one just a boy.
 
Prosecutors in the Mexican border state of Chihuahua have concluded Hernandez's death was an intentional homicide and charges should be filed against the perpetrator, said Alejandro Parientes, the regional state deputy attorney general.  The federal Attorney General's Office said there would be no public comment while the investigation continues.
Parientes said his investigation concluded the agent fired his weapon from the U.S. side of the border, but because Hernandez died on the Mexican side, Mexican courts have jurisdiction.
 
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters that the U.S. Government regrets the incident and that the FBI is investigating the matter. The U.S. Border Fire Report has learned that the FBI has opened a civil rights probe against the Border Patrol agent who shot and killed the 15-year-old Hernandez at the international boundary between the U.S. and Mexico.
AP reports that a civil rights probe well investigate allegations of abuse by any U.S. law enforcement officer. If investigators determine the Border Patrol agent shot Hernandez without justification, he could be found to have violated Hernandez's civil rights, which is a crime. The fate of the agent could range from being cleared of all wrongdoing to a charge of homicide.
Part of that inquiry, the attorney general said, will include a review of a recently surfaced cell phone video from an unidentified witness. The 10-minute video shows the officer restraining one of the border-crossers and apparently firing into Mexico at least three times. The investigation should determine which country has jurisdiction in the case.
 
On the tape the agent . . . gave verbal commands to the remaining subjects to stop and retreat. However, it appears that the subjects surrounded the agent and continued to throw rocks at him. The agent then fired his service weapon several times, striking one subject who later died.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzFqhSkQpFo


Still another cell phone recording of the El Paso shooting. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgCIl7c7XpM
Also included is some game camera footage from San Diego of a teenage kid that had the same profession that the kid that got shot had
 
http://www.youtube.com/user/usevolutions
 
According to witnesses the Mexican army not only witnessed the incident but it has been reported that they pointed there weapons at American law enforcement officers and forced an U.S. law enforcement officer to leave the area and was unable to continue to retrieve evidence at the scene of the shooting. Reportedly another TAPE HAS BEEN FOUND THAT SHOWS MEXICAN L.E. CROSSED OVER INTO THE U.S. AND PICKED UP SOMETHING (POSSIBLE EVIDENCE?) AND WENT BACK TO MEXICO WITH IT. Shortly after the shooting, Mexican federal police chased Border Patrol agents out of the riverbed with rifles trained on them while a crowd on the Mexican side taunted the U.S. officials and threw rocks and firecrackers.
 
 
An autopsy, performed on the young 15 year old-Sergio Adrian Hernandez, showed that the cause of death was a head wound caused by a firearm at a relatively short distance. The crime occurred Monday on the Mexican side under the international railroad bridge between El Paso and Cd. Juarez. Yesterday the Ministerio Publico determined that the painful death was caused by an Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol in an act of aggression. Legally the crime occurred in a federal zone between the United States and Mexico and it was determined to be caused by a foreign Agent. The body was found on the bank of the Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) on the Mexican side in a belly-up position and had signs of violent injury by projectiles from a firearm. At the crime scene was found a case from a .40 caliber firearm which has been sent to a criminal laboratory for analysis. In this case the scientific and technical evidence is consistent that the painful death was caused by an Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol. What is still unclear is whether Hernandez was one of the rock-throwers and whether the agent or the victim crossed the international border.
 
 
Such incidents are on the rise, the Mexican government says. Five Mexicans were hurt or killed by U.S. immigration agents in 2008, 12 in 2009 and 17 so far this year, according to data maintained by the Mexican Foreign Ministry.
Many Mexicans blame Arizona's tough new immigration law for fanning anger toward immigrants. The law makes it a state crime to be in the country illegally. It states that an officer engaged in a lawful stop, detention or arrest shall, when practicable, ask about a person's legal status when reasonable suspicion exists that the person is in the U.S. illegally.
"We are worried by this surge in violence against Mexicans, which has also been associated with a recent surge in other anti-immigrant and anti-Mexican sentiments in the United States," Calderón said.
In a written statement, the FBI said the El Paso incident began about 6:30 p.m. Monday, when a U.S. Border Patrol agent arrived to assist colleagues responding to a report of suspected illegal immigrants being smuggled into the U.S.
The unidentified agent, according to the FBI statement, detained one of the suspects while others reportedly threw rocks at the agent after running to the Mexican side of the border.
"This agent . . . gave verbal commands to the remaining subjects to stop and retreat," the statement said. "However, the subjects surrounded the agent and continued to throw rocks at him. The agent then fired his service weapon several times, striking one subject who later died."

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