Mexicans Targeted Agents, Union Says

The U.S. Border Patrol agents’ union alleged that Mexican soldiers who crossed the border into New Mexico and fired two shots last week may have been trying to collect a drug trafficker’s bounty by killing U.S. law officers. The union called for an investigation into the incident despite the U.S. government’s position that it was just an accident. “That was no accident,” Joseph Dassaro, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, said in El Paso, Texas. “The Mexican military was well into U.S. territory for way over a mile and chased and fired at agents.” Border Patrol officials confirmed last month that the Juarez cartel, one of Mexico’s biggest drug gangs, had placed a $200,000 bounty on U.S. law enforcement officers.