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What do Mexicans mean their Mexicans act in an aggressive way against Mexicans and even their own Hispanics?

May 15th, 2011 5 comments

The Mexican government reported a rise in incidents in which U.S. immigration authorities harmed Mexican migrants. Agents hurt or killed five Mexicans in 2008, 12 in 2009 and 17 this year, according to data from the Mexican Foreign Ministry.

In a statement, the FBI said the El Paso incident began around 6:30 p.m. Monday. A U.S. Border Patrol agent arrived to help colleagues responding to a report of suspected illegal immigrants being smuggled into the USA.

The statement says the agent detained one of the suspects while others ran to the Mexican side of the border and threw rocks at the agent.

"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."

The Mexican Foreign Ministry said in a statement Thursday that the use of firearms to "repel attacks with stones represents a disproportionate use of force."

T.J. Bonner, president of the National Border Patrol Council, the union representing about 17,000 agents and support staffers, said frequent rock attacks have the "capacity to inflict serious damage, if not death." He said the agent, a seven-year veteran, appears to have acted properly.

Bonner said U.S. records show the Mexican boy had been arrested six times on charges related to human smuggling or illegal entry.

In Mexico, some citizens were outraged. "They’re acting in a very aggressive way against Mexicans and even their own Hispanics," Alejandro López, 27, said Thursday in Mexico City. "The (Border Patrol) is going to do whatever they can to excuse it, but in the end, he was just a kid, and he didn’t deserve to die."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-06-10-border-shooting_N.htm

according to the State Department: 79 U.S. citizens were killed last year in Mexico, up from 35 in 2007. In Juarez, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas, 23 Americans were killed in 2009, compared with two in 2007.
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I can understand their frustration and ignorance of the real issue behind this but I am getting tired of their stupidity. I am so tired of the double standards they impose. Mexicans are aggressive with Central American migrants yet they don’t get called out for it. It was unfortunate for that boy to lose his life but he was no saint. As you mentioned, he was a human trafficker and had been arrested numerous times. His mother even said he was a good kid. HAHAHA or should it be JAJAJA

Is this a good decision by this judge?

March 26th, 2010 6 comments

Will this open the doors to other families who have had family members who were victims of illegal aliens?

Do you agree that these cities should be held responsible when they release a known illegal alien with criminal records back on the streets?

What is your opinion on this decision?
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Judge Lets Victims’ Kin Take City of S.F. to Court

San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, September 14, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO — The family of a father and two sons who were slain in San Francisco last year can go to state court with a claim that the city is to blame for failing to turn their alleged killer over to immigration authorities when he was arrested earlier as a juvenile, a federal judge has ruled.

City Attorney Dennis Herrera had asked U.S. District Judge Susan Illston to rule on the claim herself after dismissing the rest of the suit last month by Tony Bologna’s widow and daughter. But Illston said Friday that the remainder of the family’s case – that the city’s negligence caused the killings – belongs in Superior Court because it is based on state law and challenges San Francisco’s policies.

Bologna, 48, and his sons Michael, 20, and Matthew, 16, were shot to death near their home in the Excelsior district in June 2008. Edwin Ramos, 22, is charged with murdering them.

Ramos, a native of El Salvador whom prosecutors describe as a member of the MS-13 gang, was arrested twice as a juvenile, for an assault in October 2003 and an attempted purse-snatching in April 2004. Juvenile courts sent him to a shelter after the first incident and to the city-run Log Cabin Ranch in the Peninsula hills after the second.

Case records don’t show whether police or juvenile courts knew that Ramos had entered the United States illegally. But under juvenile authorities’ interpretation of the city’s sanctuary policy at the time, they would not have passed that information along to federal immigration officials. Federal authorities learned of Ramos’ status later but did not take him into custody for deportation proceedings.

The family’s lawsuit says the city was responsible for the shootings because its policy allowed Ramos to go free.

Last month, Illston rejected the family’s claim that the city’s actions violated the shooting victims’ constitutional right to due process of law. She said the city might be held to account if it knew Ramos posed a specific threat to the Bolognas, but not for releasing someone who allegedly endangered a large segment of the public.

Herrera’s office urged Illston to address the negligence claim as well, arguing that it was governed by the same legal standard: a requirement that the plaintiffs show city officials knew the Bolognas were in danger and had a duty to protect them.

But Matthew Davis, the family’s lawyer, said Monday that California law makes it easier to hold government officials accountable for allegedly harboring illegal immigrants or preventing police from reporting them to federal authorities.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/09/14/BAC519N0BR.DTL#ixzz0R7F5VzHR

Yes. When the criminal illegal alien was released the chances were very high he would re-commit.
The city is responsible. They chose to disregard his illegal status, even though he was a criminal. They released him into the public. If they had deported him and he re-entered then I would say the city was not responsible.
If I have a vicious dog and I release it on the street and it bites someone I am responsible and can be sued.