Fox News Latino The Mexican government strongly denounced the homicide of a minor by U.S. agents on the border between Nogales, Mexico, and the likenamed Arizona city.
The Foreign Relations Secretariat expressed in a communique Mexico's "energetic condemnation" of the incident that occurred Wednesday on the border when Border Patrol agents opened fire and killed the minor.
"The disproportionate use of lethal force by the army engaged in immigration-control duties is unacceptable under any circumstances," the statement said.
It added that cases like this, "particularly because of their recurrence," have sparked the resentment of Mexicans and of all the powers and political parties in the country. Read more.
The MexicoBlog of the Americas Program, a fiscally sponsored program of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), is written by Laura Carlsen. I monitor and analyze international press on Mexico, with a focus on security, immigration, human rights and social movements for peace and justice, from a feminist perspective. And sometimes I simply muse.
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