Mexican Government "Outs" Itself!!

I had hoped to let this business of the Mexican government's apparent strategy to hobble US Border Patrol Agents rest for a few days. But sure enough, I opened my morning paper today and there was as an AP column: "Border shooting decried". Wanna take a wild stab at who did the decrying? Right on your first guess - the Mexican Government;

Marco Antonio Torres Moreno - public safety director in Ciudad Juarez, the city across the river from El Paso - said Ortiz was shot once in the chest and once in the right forearm.
The Mexican government demanded in a statement that "all the weight of the law be brought to bear against the person or persons responsible."
"The Mexican government expresses a firm protest against the use of lethal weapons in the face of situations that do not represent a proportionate risk," the Foreign Relations Department said.
Ortiz had been deported from the U.S. in 2004, Mosier said.
Jesus Castillo, 43, Ortiz's brother, initially acknowledged that his brother had worked as an immigrant smuggler. But after speaking to investigators, he said his brother worked in construction and occasionally crossed the border to look for work in El Paso.
{Bet he didn't have any stinking badge either----}

By way of background, understand that the Ortiz, the smuggler, had been arrested and deported 28 times in the past and in this instance was still holding the bolt cutters and a rock. Like department stores, we are going to have to replace the revolving doors with sliding electric ones because the deportees can't get through them fast enough!

But when a foreign government, in this case Mexico, puts all of it's weight on Washington and on local officials.... as if Sister Teresa was trekking across the border to help the sick and needy...it gets to be a bit much.
I would promise to leave this topic alone for a few days but sure as heck if I do, the Mexican federales will be galloping across the Rio Grande to rescue one of their poor, put upon sterling citizens tomorrow morning. Please note that this was just across the border from Ciudad Juarez, a city that the Mexican government cannot (or will not) even protect. You've read about it in your local papers even if you are in New Hampshire reading this.

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