Wow - this is the American idea of security? The United States Border Patrol thinks that they are justified in critically shooting anyone (including children) who are a deadly threat to them. 

Let’s first examine the Declaration of Independence. Too much of a digression from this story? I think not - one deals with foreign relations with a country directly tangent to us and the other deals with the life spring of our current civilization. Both have to do with humans. 

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

 You can interpret Creator as whomever you choose but the basic gist of this clause is that each man is given certain unalienable rights. You might argue that the patrolmen had the right to protect themselves - however, the action of shooting a fourteen year old child straight in the head, I would say, is an act of offense not of defense. Furthermore, we, Americans, become so angry when there are “terrorist” attacks in Israel, in Iraq, in Afghanistan - but how about these crimes against humanity that are done on our own soil? We have been so farsighted where we feel that we have the education and the wisdom to tell others how to act, whilst we cannot control the garbage in our own backyard. 

I am not saying that we should let every border-hopper into the U.S., I know that Mexico’s going a lot of turmoil because of all the drug cartel drama; however, I don’t think that shooting people really portrays the America that it was set out to be. Am I expecting too much from a group of people I barely know? 

I know the Border Patrol is there to protect us, but it’s still frustrating. 

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