". . . the FBI, which is investigating the death, said the agent had been under attack . . ."

Sounds like the FBI INVESTIGATION is finished.

Already.
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NY TIMES

June 8, 2010

Border Shooting Strains Tensions With Mexico

By MARC LACEY

MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities expressed fury at the shooting death of a Mexican teenager on Monday night by a Border Patrol agent, while the FBI, which is investigating the death, said the agent had been under attack by rock-throwing migrants attempting to cross into El Paso, Texas.

The government of the Mexican state of Chihuahua condemned the killing of the teenager, Sergio Adrian Hernandez Guereca, 15, calling it a blow to all Mexicans and an example of the xenophobia that the anti-immigration law in Arizona has fomented in the United States.

American officials described the shooting as an act of self defense. Several agents were on a bike patrol in the concrete channel alongside the Rio Grande at about 6:30 p.m. Monday when they encountered a group of suspected illegal immigrants entering the United States. After two suspects were arrested, others in the group fled just across the border to Mexico and began throwing rocks at the agents, the FBI said in a statement. One agent fired several shots and hit the victim, who died at the base of the Paso Del Norte international bridge, officials said.

The Border Patrol says it is subjected to hundreds of rock attacks during its patrols and takes them seriously. From October 2007 to the end of May 2008, there were 537 rock-throwing incidents involving agents, officials said. That number dropped to 460 the following year and then rose to 604 incidents in the most recent reporting period, which ended on May 31.

“There’s a misperception people have that we’re having pebbles thrown at us,” said Mark Qualia, a United States Customs and Border Protection spokesman in Washington. “They are stones the size of baseballs in some cases or half a brick. You can’t take this lightly.”

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"Mistakes were made." Chandler, AZ Mayor Boyd Dunn - Los Angeles Times June 6, 2010

"If Latinos in Arizona are more than just a little nervous about Arizona's new immigration law, it's likely because they remember history all too well, notes the Los Angeles Times. In mid-1997, the Phoenix suburb of Chandler was the scene of a huge sweep to find, and deport, illegal immigrants. Officers began following people, demanding to see proof of citizenship in the middle of the street, often targeting those who looked Mexican or were speaking Spanish. In the end, authorities ended up detaining dozens of citizens and legal residents and the state attorney general said officials had engaged in racial profiling. It was hardly the first time something like this happened. As many as 60 percent of the more than a million people who were deported in operations across the United States in the 1930s were U.S. citizens. But it's the memory of what happened in Chandler that makes many in Arizona fearful that history is bound to repeat itself when the new law takes effect July 29." - from The Slatest - June 7 2010

Read original story in Los Angeles Times | Sunday, June 6, 2010

“If a burglar breaks into your home, do you serve him dinner? That is pretty much what they do there with illegals.”

In a not very neighborly criticism of NEW MEXICO, Arizona State Representative John Kavanagh (Republican) said: "If a burglar breaks into your home, do you serve him dinner? That is pretty much what they do there with illegals.” 


Fair is fair, so New Mexico's Governor, Democrat Bill Richardson said this about Arizona's new law, which makes it a state crime to be in Arizona without proof of citizenship: “There is a decided positive in encouraging biculturalism and people working and living together instead of inciting tension. The worry I have about Arizona is it is going to spread. It arouses the nativist instinct in people.”


It is not difficult to tell who is more representative of diverse America.


(All quotes from "Side by Side, but Divided Over Immigration" NY Times May 12 2010)

Sun Columnist Ron Smith: ". . . many Republicans, being members of the Stupid Party . . ."

Ron Smith, A Baltimore Sun columnist, has written (April 30 2010) that the new Arizona immigration law is "rational." But Ron neglected to mention that the Republican State Senator who introduced the bill, complained in an e-mail to his supporters about "a world in which every voice proclaims the equality of the races."

GOP Senator Russell Pearce went on to assert that the Holocaust never happened ("the Jewish 'Holocaust' tale") and decried "non-White aliens" entering the US.

(For the Pearce e-mail, see www.RealityChex.com and also the Rachel Maddow Show transcript, posted at:http://www.blogforarizona.com/blog/2010/04/racist-roots-of-russell-pearces-regressive-antiimmigrant-laws.html)

Is the Arizona law rational? or racist? GOP Senator Pearce, who introduced it, has given us his answer.


NOTE: According to Wikipedia's Russell Pierce page, the e-mail in question was an item he forwarded to a lsit of his supporters, before he had read it completely, and that he promptly apologized for it, saying: "Ugly the words contained in it really are. They are not mine and I disavow them completely. Worse still, the website links to a group whose politics are the ugliest imaginable." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Pearce


NOTE 2: Sen. Pierce has introduced legislation in the AZ Senate which is aimed at disbanded Mexican American and Black student groups, on the theory that university students should be prohibited by law from creating or joining groups that are based wholly or in part on the race of their membership, such as the Black Business Students Assoc or the Mexican American study program.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Pearce