US officer at border crossing shoots driver going to Mexico

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: AP

NOGALES, Ariz. — A Customs and Border Protection officer shot and wounded the driver of a vehicle attempting to enter Mexico at a crossing in Arizona, the agency said Friday.

An Arizona mayor initially told a newspaper Thursday night that the wounded man was killed, but CBP spokeswoman Teresa Small told The Associated Press Friday the man had not died.

The border crossing was initially closed after the shooting, but later reopened.

A CBP statement about the Thursday night shooting said the driver was wounded and taken to a hospital on the Mexican side in Nogales, Sonora, but did not provide his condition.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/us-officer-at-border-crossing-shoots-driver-going-to-mexico/ar-BBTjH4g?li=BBnbcA1

[avebury]

1. So are they now trying to prevent travel in

both directions?

[cstanleytech]

2. My initial thought was "Well, the new Berlin wall looks to be shaping up." however there are

other possibilities such as the person could have been fleeing to avoid arrest inside the US for some reason.

[Honeycombe8]

3. That's what I was thinking. Or a low-level drug trafficker.

Or someone evading arrest. Customs agents check on people going through a border either way. If they let people just drive through w/o stopping, almost no one would stop, probably.

[Kali]

4. I have never been stopped by US personel crossing into Mexico.

I have seen the lanes choked down to a single line of traffic and often they are standing around nearby, no doubt there are cameras deployed. But I have never been stopped nor witnessed anyone else being stopped. I have been crossing for decades. Mostly at Douglas/AP but also various others many, many times.

[Honeycombe8]

5. Oh, I thought they stopped & checked the passports or something.

I've never been, so I'm just going by what I've seen in movies. You don't have to have a passport to go to Mexico?

[paleotn]

7. Generally, you do...

but it's Mexican immigration officials inspecting your passport card or passport. Not US. That's a supposition on my part, but on my many trips into Canada, there's no US border patrol infrastructure going north. Just Canadian. The opposite going south.

[Honeycombe8]

8. Thanks! nt

[Kali]

10. no, you need one to get back into the US

you are good for 20 miles into Mexico and most of Sonora is a free travel zone as well. you probably SHOULD carry one or at lease some real ID but the only time I show my passport or card to Mexican authorities is to get a visa to go beyond the 20 mile zone.

you used to be able to travel on a birth certificate, but to get back in yo the US you are supposed to have a passport. not sure what they actually do if you don't have one. probably a fine.

[Juneboarder]

6. I have never been stopped by a US agent going into MX...

At least in San Diego, there are no US border patrol checkpoints going into MX, but there is a checkpoint you have to go through once you enter MX and pass by the MX officials.

There must be more to this story...

[Kali]

11. they were probably chasing him, or he did a fast U-turn or something...

[rollin74]

12. driver tried to run over border patrol officer

according to news reports

the officer was also injured and transported to the hospital

[GulfCoast66]

9. I've never driven out of the country. But flown many times.

Never had any boarder control stuff till reaching Europe or China. It that different on a physical boarder? I get Mexico might check him out. But are you searched leaving the country?

[dalton99a]

13. Shot in the back of the head

A Mexican law enforcement officer stands above a person detained after a southbound pickup truck failed to stop at the Nogales Port of Entry. A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer shot at the pick-up. The driver was shot and taken to a hospital in Mexico.
Courtesy of César Barrón / Radio Xeny

According to the Mexican Red Cross, the driver was a man in his early 20s. Spokesperson Rafael González Domínguez said the man was shot in the back of the head and taken to a hospital in Nogales, Sonora, in critical condition. He also said the man is a U.S. citizen who lives in Tucson.

A vehicle headed south at the port was asked by an officer to stop, but the driver refused and made an attempt to run over the officer.

The driver was shot, but the vehicle's momentum carried it over the border onto the Mexican side of the border buffer zone between the two countries.

Officers of the Mexican equivalent of CBP reportedly surrounded the vehicle and dragged a man out who was taken to a hospital in Mexico.

https://tucson.com/news/local/man-in-pickup-truck-shot-at-nogales-port-of-entry/article_f0c9b5fe-2b4d-11e9-b22a-f7e77a66998d.html