When a 15-year-old boy named Sergio Hernández Guereca was shot to death by a United States border agent in 2010, he was crouching behind a concrete pillar a few steps inside the Mexican border. PhotoOn the day he was killed, Sergio, a Mexican citizen, was playing with friends in the culvert separating El Paso, Tex., and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico. Mexican prosecutors charged Mr. Mesa with murder, but the Obama administration refused to extradite him. Nor is the Hernández killing unique in the border area; one 2013 report found that border agents and officers killed at least 42 people in the preceding eight years. Currently an unarmed boy standing just south of the border can be killed with impunity by an American border agent, but not if he happens to be a few feet to the north.

Source: New York Times February 23, 2017 02:01 UTC