The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court on Thursday not to allow the families of Mexican teenagers shot by U.S. border agents to sue those agents for civil damages. The high court was urged in a government brief to take up the issue and rule for the agents. At issue: whether the border agents deserved “qualified immunity” from lawsuits over their official conduct. In separate incidents, both fired their weapons across the border, killing the teens. Both agents said in the separate incidents they were being attacked by people throwing rocks from the other side of the Mexican border.

Source: Fox News April 11, 2019 23:03 UTC