Mexican gov't blasts killing of migrant

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government sent a diplomatic note to the United States on Tuesday protesting the fatal shooting of a Mexican * immigrant by a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

The note, presented by the Mexican Embassy in Washington, relayed "the Mexican government's firm condemnation" of the shooting and its "serious concern over the recurrence of this type of incident," according to a Foreign Relations Department news release.

The diplomatic note underscored Mexico's demand that the U.S. conduct "an exhaustive investigation" and punish whoever is responsible, the release said.

Francisco Javier Dominguez-Rivera, 22, of Puebla, Mexico, was killed Friday in a confrontation with the unidentified agent north of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona between Bisbee and Douglas.

A group of seven people were crossing the desert and the agent took six of them into custody without incident, authorities said.

But the agent and Dominguez-Rivera began fighting, authorities said. The agent, who believed his life was in danger, shot and killed the man, the Border Patrol said previously. An autopsy was scheduled Wednesday.

On Sunday, Mexican President Felipe Calderon expressed his "most energetic protest" against the shooting.

The agent is on paid administrative leave while the case is pending. An FBI spokeswoman in Arizona said both county and federal investigations were under way and that there could be a civil rights investigation.

Mexican consular personnel have met with Dominguez Rivera's brothers and the four others who are being held in a detention center in an effort to obtain their version of Friday's events, the Foreign Relations Department said.

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*anyone else notice the word "illegal" missing in this story from yahoo?

[Hornet 2]

Screw the Mexican Govt!!! Where's their protest when Americans are killed in the drug trade or by coyotes??

They call him an immigrant??? He's a criminal coming into OUR country illegally!!! PERIOD

The history channel just had a whole show on the Great Wall of China. How and WHY they built it. And it did protect their country for centuries!! It allowed the 'Silk Road' to become a trade route.

Time for the Great Wall of the USA!!!

[pedroh 21]

Screw the Mexican Govt!!! Where's their protest when Americans are killed in the drug trade or by coyotes??

They call him an immigrant??? He's a criminal coming into OUR country illegally!!! PERIOD

The history channel just had a whole show on the Great Wall of China. How and WHY they built it. And it did protect their country for centuries!! It allowed the 'Silk Road' to become a trade route.

Time for the Great Wall of the USA!!!

err.. cuz druglords or coyotes are not law enforcement like the border patrolmen?

[Alanlvsjudy 0]

Screw the Mexican Govt!!! Where's their protest when Americans are killed in the drug trade or by coyotes??

They call him an immigrant??? He's a criminal coming into OUR country illegally!!! PERIOD

The history channel just had a whole show on the Great Wall of China. How and WHY they built it. And it did protect their country for centuries!! It allowed the 'Silk Road' to become a trade route.

Time for the Great Wall of the USA!!!

err.. cuz druglords or coyotes are not law enforcement like the border patrolmen?

Regardless who you are or where you come from, fighting with law enforcement officers is a fairly reliable way to become a backstop for sub munitions. (get shot)

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

Screw the Mexican Govt!!! Where's their protest when Americans are killed in the drug trade or by coyotes??

They call him an immigrant??? He's a criminal coming into OUR country illegally!!! PERIOD

The history channel just had a whole show on the Great Wall of China. How and WHY they built it. And it did protect their country for centuries!! It allowed the 'Silk Road' to become a trade route.

Time for the Great Wall of the USA!!!

err.. cuz druglords or coyotes are not law enforcement like the border patrolmen?

Regardless who you are or where you come from, fighting with law enforcement officers is a fairly reliable way to become a backstop for sub munitions. (get shot)

a high velocity projectile interceptor

[Alanlvsjudy 0]

Screw the Mexican Govt!!! Where's their protest when Americans are killed in the drug trade or by coyotes??

They call him an immigrant??? He's a criminal coming into OUR country illegally!!! PERIOD

The history channel just had a whole show on the Great Wall of China. How and WHY they built it. And it did protect their country for centuries!! It allowed the 'Silk Road' to become a trade route.

Time for the Great Wall of the USA!!!

err.. cuz druglords or coyotes are not law enforcement like the border patrolmen?

Regardless who you are or where you come from, fighting with law enforcement officers is a fairly reliable way to become a backstop for sub munitions. (get shot)

a high velocity projectile interceptor

Reminds me of the case when the Ohio state trooper was trying to arrest a suspect who on video kept attempting to shoot the officer, finally the officer ended the stupidity with an intra cranial lead injection...the kicker was, the perps mother was quoted as saying "I don't care what my son did, he did not have to die"

[Ban Hammer 13,346]

Screw the Mexican Govt!!! Where's their protest when Americans are killed in the drug trade or by coyotes??

They call him an immigrant??? He's a criminal coming into OUR country illegally!!! PERIOD

The history channel just had a whole show on the Great Wall of China. How and WHY they built it. And it did protect their country for centuries!! It allowed the 'Silk Road' to become a trade route.

Time for the Great Wall of the USA!!!

err.. cuz druglords or coyotes are not law enforcement like the border patrolmen?

Regardless who you are or where you come from, fighting with law enforcement officers is a fairly reliable way to become a backstop for sub munitions. (get shot)

a high velocity projectile interceptor

Reminds me of the case when the Ohio state trooper was trying to arrest a suspect who on video kept attempting to shoot the officer, finally the officer ended the stupidity with an intra cranial lead injection...the kicker was, the perps mother was quoted as saying "I don't care what my son did, he did not have to die"

they shoulda told his mom that darwin woulda considered it a mercy killing

[Alanlvsjudy 0]

Screw the Mexican Govt!!! Where's their protest when Americans are killed in the drug trade or by coyotes??

They call him an immigrant??? He's a criminal coming into OUR country illegally!!! PERIOD

The history channel just had a whole show on the Great Wall of China. How and WHY they built it. And it did protect their country for centuries!! It allowed the 'Silk Road' to become a trade route.

Time for the Great Wall of the USA!!!

err.. cuz druglords or coyotes are not law enforcement like the border patrolmen?

Regardless who you are or where you come from, fighting with law enforcement officers is a fairly reliable way to become a backstop for sub munitions. (get shot)

a high velocity projectile interceptor

Reminds me of the case when the Ohio state trooper was trying to arrest a suspect who on video kept attempting to shoot the officer, finally the officer ended the stupidity with an intra cranial lead injection...the kicker was, the perps mother was quoted as saying "I don't care what my son did, he did not have to die"

they shoulda told his mom that darwin woulda considered it a mercy killing

That or perhaps they could have donated a cap to her cause...

[peejay 327]

Several years ago the Mexican government issued a travel safety warning alert to protest the number of Mexican citizens killed by local law inforcement in Houston. In all these cases these incidents were looked into by various agencies in the US government and the killings were ruled as justified homicides in the officers' line of duty.

The case I remember best was a Mexican illegal alien playing loud music in his apartment in the wee hours after midnight and his neighbors called the cops to get them to quiet it down. As the cops were leaving after quieting his musical tirade he pointed a fake plastic pistol at the cops through the window of his apartment. His stupidity cost him his own life. And, of course, the Mexican government formally protested.

These protests are pretty ironic...considering that the new Mexican President Caldaron recently had to post civilian observers at the US / Mexican border to deter the Mexican Customs officers and police from shaking down and stealing from their own Mexican citizens while returning home for the Christmas holidays from the US. Mexican citizens should be protesting the corrupt government that actually is abusing them.

[Alanlvsjudy 0]

Several years ago the Mexican government issued a travel safety warning alert to protest the number of Mexican citizens killed by local law inforcement in Houston. In all these cases these incidents were looked into by various agencies in the US government and the killings were ruled as justified homicides in the officers' line of duty.

The case I remember best was a Mexican illegal alien playing loud music in his apartment in the wee hours after midnight and his neighbors called the cops to get them to quiet it down. As the cops were leaving after quieting his musical tirade he pointed a fake plastic pistol at the cops through the window of his apartment. His stupidity cost him his own life. And, of course, the Mexican government formally protested.

These protests are pretty ironic...considering that the new Mexican President Caldaron recently had to post civilian observers at the US / Mexican border to deter the Mexican Customs officers and police from shaking down and stealing from their own Mexican citizens while returning home for the Christmas holidays from the US. Mexican citizens should be protesting the corrupt government that actually is abusing them.

[eric&gen 0]

!Screw the Mexican Govt!! Where's their protest when Americans are killed in the drug trade or by coyotes??

They call him an immigrant??? He's a criminal coming into OUR country illegally!!! PERIOD

The history channel just had a whole show on the Great Wall of China. How and WHY they built it. And it did protect their country for centuries!! It allowed the 'Silk Road' to become a trade route.

Time for the Great Wall of the USA!!!

!Screw the Mexican Govt!! i agree. Go back home illegals