Weekly Report - 11 October 2012 (WR-12-40)

On 2 October a US Border Patrol agent was killed in Arizona — the second such incident since the death of agent Brian Terry, also in Arizona, in December 2010. The response was twofold. On the security front, a “saturation” deployment was ordered in the border area to find the killer or killers. On the political front, the state’s Republican governor used it to castigate the Barack Obama administration for not having ensured security along the border. Then came the news that the agent had not been killed by aliens from across the border, but by a fellow agent.

End of preview - This article contains approximately 453 words.

Subscribers: Log in now to read the full article

Not a Subscriber?

Choose from one of the following options

• Subscribe
• Sign up for a one-time, 14-day trial