Border Patrol vehicle patrolling along the fence of the international border between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico. Credit: Sherry V Smith/Shutterstock
A federal appellate court found that a lawsuit from the family of a Mexican man fatally shot by a U.S. Border Patrol agent “illustrates the law’s inability to remedy certain wrongs.”
In 2011, a border agent shot Jose Alfredo Yañez Reyes on the U.S.-Mexico border fence after resisting arrest and attempting to return to Mexico. The agent, Dorian Diaz, claims Yañez threw rocks at him and another agent, as well as a table leg with nails. A Mexican man who attempted to cross the border with Yañez alleged that he didn’t see him throw anything and instead was holding a cellphone and told the officials he was recording them.
