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February 26, 2020

Supreme Court Rules Border Patrol Agents Who Shoot into Mexico Can't Be Sued
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Back in the U.S., the Supreme Court ruled in a sharply divided 5-4
decision Tuesday that the family of a 15-year-old Mexican teen killed by
a U.S. Border Patrol agent a decade ago cannot sue the officer in
federal court without the approval of the U.S. Congress. In 2010, the
teenager, Sergio Adrián Hernández Güereca, was shot across the El
Paso-Juárez border by U.S. Border Patrol agent Jesus Mesa Jr. It's the
latest example of impunity for U.S. Border Patrol officers who commit
homicide across the Mexican border. In 2018, a federal jury in Tucson,
Arizona, found Border Patrol agent Lonnie Swartz not guilty of
manslaughter for shooting and killing 16-year-old José Rodríguez through
the U.S.-Mexico border fence in 2012. Click here to see Democracy Now!'s
coverage of Rodríguez's case and our interview with his family in
Nogales, Mexico.


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