May 25:
The White House announced it would send 1,200 troops to the U.S.-Mexican border after Senate Republicans told the president immigration reform depended on border security.Senate Democratic leaders have made it clear to the president that immigration reform has no chance of passing the upper chamber unless a handful of Republicans sign on to the effort.
Obama also has come under pressure from conservatives since Arizona passed its law to crack down on illegal immigrants. Conservatives contend the action was necessary because of a failure by the federal government to secure the southern border.
June 8:
The Associated Press reports, "A US Border Patrol agent shot and killed a 14-year-old boy after a confrontation at an international bridge near downtown El Paso, Mexican authorities said Tuesday."[...]
"An emergency radio broadcast to El Paso police at 6:43 p.m. stated a Border Patrol agent had fired into a crowd of people."
LATEST: Updated AP story: "Agents detaining suspected illegal immigrants Monday came under assault from rock throwers across the border in Mexico, FBI spokeswoman Andrea Simmons said." National Border Patrol Council president T.J. Bonner tells Associated Press that rock throwing incidents are "deadly force encounters" which "justifies the use of deadly force."
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"The Border Patrol agent shot from El Paso, Texas, across the border into Ciudad Juarez, Mexico,"CNN reports.
Hmmmm…there's a river between the two cities. A 14-year-old throwing a rock across the distance of the Rio Grande is considered a "deadly force encounter"?? Well, Goliath won this one.
Barack Obama: Republican tool.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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