EL PASO, Texas — Mexico on Thursday condemned the shooting of a 15-year-old boy by a U.S. Border Patrol agent through diplomatic correspondence and an angry phone call to the Homeland Security secretary. Some Mexican politicians called for the agent's extradition to face Mexican justice.
Anger over the Monday night shooting across the muddy Rio Grande on the border was fueled by a cellphone video of the shooting, as debate began over which country has jurisdiction in the case.
A still-unidentified Border Patrol agent trying to arrest ******* immigrants running into the United States fired his weapon from the U.S. side into Mexico, ******* Sergio Adrian Hernandez Huereka, 15, while people on the Mexican side threw rocks at border agents.
What is still unclear is whether Hernandez was one of the rock-throwers and whether the agent or the victim crossed the border. Mexican federal police quickly 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.
"We are worried by this surge of ******** against Mexicans, which comes along with a surge of other anti-immigrant and anti-Mexican occurrences in the United States," Mexican President Felipe Calderón said in a new statement, apparently referring to Arizona's new immigration law, which the Mexican leader previously has condemned.
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