From yesterday's State Department Press Briefing (via email):
QUESTION: The Mexican Government has sent a letter to the State Department essentially protesting a killing of a Mexican immigrant that was shot at the border on Friday. The immigrant's mother is seeking the death penalty for the border agent that shot her son. I'm wondering if you have any response to this letter?
MR. CASEY: My understanding is we have received a diplomatic note from the Government of Mexico on this incident. It's something that I understand the FBI is conducting an investigation into and obviously, we'd leave it to them and to the border patrol to determine what, if any, response is appropriate based on that investigation.
QUESTION: So there's been no direct communiqué back to the Mexican Government?
MR. CASEY: Not in terms of a formal response to that diplomatic note. Again, as far as I know, the Mexican Government is aware of the fact that the FBI has said, both publicly and privately, that it's investigating the incident and obviously, that's a starting point before you would move to any other kinds of decisions as to what action might or might not be appropriate.
So...we're concerned about some illegal who got shot, but not worried at all about Mexican Army commandos testing the resolve of our National Guard troops on the border... That's very interesting... What was that about national security being the number one issue again???
